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Action #033
Recycle your books
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They dreamt up a scheme in Amsterdam a few years ago, whereby white bicycles were provided for free. After you'd finished your ride you'd leave the bike in the street for someone else to use. Unfortunately this brilliant plan for recycling bikes flopped for two reasons. One, criminals exist. And two, coloured paint exists.
A better version might be to ask people to recycle their books. Give them to a charity shop, your local library or just leave them lying on a park bench.
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Freecycle
Swap things for free!
http://uk.freecycle.org/ -
Recycle this
Interesting ideas of ways to recycle unwanted items.
http://www.recyclethis.co.uk/ -
Let's All Share
A website to help you recycle unwanted goods instead of throwing them away, and renting or lending rarely used items rather than buying new ones.
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Talking books: Oxfam
Every month £1.6 million worth of books are donated and sold through Oxfam shops.
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Readers United
Swap books online.
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Choose What You Read
Choose What You Read is a reaction to the thousands of free newspapers given out every day to commutors and thrown away. This is an opportunity to read a book instead, donated by the public.
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Book crossing
BookCrossing is earth-friendly and gives you a way to share your books, clear your shelves, and conserve resources at the same time. Leave it on a park bench, a coffee shop, share it with a friend or tuck it onto a bookshelf at the gym - anywhere it might find a new reader! What happens next is up to fate - track your book's journey around the world...
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Book hopper
An online library of unwanted books. Sign up, add your books to your 'bookshelf' and then browse others and swap books for only the cost of postage.
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Zero waste project
Mrs Green and family are aiming for a zero waste household. Here are their tips on how to recycle your books.
http://myzerowaste.com/2008/08/how-to-recycle-books-the-zero-waste-way/ -
Book Mooch
Give books away, get books you want.
http://bookmooch.com/
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Book Crossing
- Bookcrossing entered the OED in 2004 defined as; n. the practice of leaving a book in a public place to be picked up and read by others, who then do likewise.
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Just because I'm not reading them...
...doesn't mean someone else won't love them. Every few months I go through my bookshelves (around 1200 books live with me currently) and cull out ones I'm not going to read, haven't touched in years, etc. They go to the used book stores - those that don't get accept there after a few rounds go to my local library. 03 December 2009, 12:43My fave book
Gave it to Eugenie and she likes it too.http://www.amazon.co.uk/Risk-Science-Politics-Dan-Gardner/dp/0753515539/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254403488&sr=8-3 01 October 2009, 13:27
Recycle your books
We have all done this at the WAWWD workday.xoxo 01 July 2009, 21:37