{"id":8023,"date":"2021-12-21T15:54:50","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T20:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/?p=8023"},"modified":"2022-02-04T11:20:42","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T16:20:42","slug":"365248-post-christmas-decluttering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/365248-post-christmas-decluttering\/","title":{"rendered":"365+#248: Recycling Electronics +"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Days-365-+-computer-familiar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1631 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Days-365-+-computer-familiar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"137\" height=\"123\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Days-273-Extra-Cell-phone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-1208\" src=\"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Days-273-Extra-Cell-phone.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"69\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a>Christmas is almost upon us. Perhaps you will receive some new electronics (a phone, laptop, TV, game system, etc.) Yea! But leap ahead a week or so and this also brings up the question of what to do with your older, maybe broken or obsolete technology items. How do you recycle these responsibly?<br \/>\nI did some research so you don&#8217;t have to. Here&#8217;s a summary:<\/p>\n<p><strong>RECYCLING OLDER ELECTRONICS: <\/strong>For the serious declutterer, check out these 3 articles.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.allconnect.com\/blog\/where-to-donate-and-recycle-used-electronics\"><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Where to Donate and Recycle Used Electronics<\/span><\/em><\/a> \u2013 <em>All Connect<\/em> offers many ideas about principles, resources and where to take used electronics.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.consumerreports.org\/recycling\/how-to-recycle-electronics-a7432818850\/\"><em>How to Recycle Old Electronics<\/em><\/a><\/span> \u2013 <em>Consumer Reports<\/em> offers their always well reputed reliable, unbiased product information.<\/li>\n<li><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/search.earth911.com\/?utm_source=earth911-header\">Where to Recycle<\/a><\/span><\/em> \u2013 <em>Earth 911<\/em> offers a simple, direct search function to find local recycling places.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>IN A FEW WORDS:<\/strong> For those who care but have less time, the key points are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Donate<\/strong>\u00a0as much as you can to reputable charities (the articles give contact info for many of the usual ones.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Recycle<\/strong> others by taking your stuff to stores that sell similar merchandise or to the parent tech firm itself.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Wipe all products clean<\/strong> of any personal information.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>FOR FUN: <\/strong>Check out this 2 minute video. Which of the 5 things would you guess?<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.consumerreports.org\/video\/view\/home-garden\/energy-efficiency\/6090100968001\/5-things-to-always-recycle\/\">5 Things To Always Recycle<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Days-365+18-Advent-Calendar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-1913\" src=\"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Days-365+18-Advent-Calendar-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"101\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Days-365+18-Advent-Calendar-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Days-365+18-Advent-Calendar-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Days-365+18-Advent-Calendar.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 101px) 100vw, 101px\" \/><\/a>BEYOND ELECTRONICS<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Bonus ideas about decluttering other Christmas stuff and making the holidays sync with your environmental commitments<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/charterforcompassion.org\/charter-blog\/28-ways-to-be-environmentally-conscious-during-the-holidays?utm_source=newsletter_534&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=the-seesaw\">28 Ways to Be Environmentally Conscious During the Holidays<\/a> <\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">from <em>Charter for Compassion<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.becomingminimalist.com\/decluttering-christmas-decorations\/\"><em>Thoughts on Decluttering Christmas Decorations<\/em><\/a><\/span> &#8211; by Joshua Becker\u00a0 of <em>Becoming Minimalist<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas is almost upon us. Perhaps you will receive some new electronics (a phone, laptop, TV, game system, etc.) Yea! But leap ahead a week or so and this also brings up the question of what to do with your older, maybe broken or obsolete technology items. How do you recycle these responsibly? I did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[25,28,6],"class_list":["post-8023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-days-365","tag-christmas","tag-electronics","tag-recycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8023"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8091,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8023\/revisions\/8091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}