Archive for January 21st, 2009
Reuse: The Little Things
Have you ever broken something, and hated throwing away the broken pieces? What about when you upgrade your computer or mobile phone? Even though there are e-waste recycling centres, doesn’t it suck to have to toss stuff just because one little chip chucks a hissy fit? Wouldn’t it be great to reuse some of this junk?
So why don’t you? Yankee Elv is. Right now, her thing is making jewellery – earrings mostly – out of whatever odds and ends she happens to have lying about. She uses old beads from broken necklaces, or from a gaudy beaded purse we picked up from a Freecycle giveaway. Sometimes she uses her leftover cross stitch thread to make anklets. Her most recent creation? E-waste earrings.
Brown e-waste earrings
Blue e-waste earrings
Aren’t they awesome? She’s in the beginning stages of opening a shop on Etsy to sell some of her creations. I wore a pair to work today and all the girls loved them, and loved them more when I told them what they were originally (circuitry). Geek chic!
A friendly giraffe modelling the blue e-waste earrings on a bookshelf
It feels so much better recycling your e-waste you know you’ve really gotten everything you can from it.
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