Comments on: EPA Announces New Cell-phone Recycling Program http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/01/10/the-easy-call-from-the-epa/ Future-forward design for the world you inhabit Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:18:17 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Alexihttp://www.inhabitat.com/2008/01/10/the-easy-call-from-the-epa/comment-page-1/#comment-66353 Alexi Sat, 12 Jan 2008 11:54:03 +0000 http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/01/10/the-easy-call-from-the-epa/#comment-66353 Good intentions trying to prolong phone life. But if a phone lifespan is increased two times then phone-maker gets two times less money. I don't think phone-makers are waiting for it to happen. So i think clever recycling is more real than prolonging phone life.to Kat I thought about similar thing. Nowadays in megapolises commute time is huge. I live in Istanbul and here spending avergage 3-4 hours a day in traffic is a norm. Sad thing this time is thrown away as people do nothing but staring out of buses' windows at cars passing by. Sounds stupid i know but what if people get bicycle under their seats so that they power up the vechicle and do sports simultaneously :) We could fight petrol emmisions and cellulite at the same time!!! Good intentions trying to prolong phone life. But if a phone lifespan is increased two times then phone-maker gets two times less money. I don’t think phone-makers are waiting for it to happen. So i think clever recycling is more real than prolonging phone life.

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I thought about similar thing. Nowadays in megapolises commute time is huge. I live in Istanbul and here spending avergage 3-4 hours a day in traffic is a norm. Sad thing this time is thrown away as people do nothing but staring out of buses’ windows at cars passing by. Sounds stupid i know but what if people get bicycle under their seats so that they power up the vechicle and do sports simultaneously :) We could fight petrol emmisions and cellulite at the same time!!!

]]> By: Marilyn Terrellhttp://www.inhabitat.com/2008/01/10/the-easy-call-from-the-epa/comment-page-1/#comment-66300 Marilyn Terrell Sat, 12 Jan 2008 04:45:45 +0000 http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/01/10/the-easy-call-from-the-epa/#comment-66300 It's great to know about this. Now if EPA could find a way to responsibly recycle all our old tvs and computers so they don't end up in a reeking dump in Accra, where kids burn the plastic coating off wires so they can sell the copper: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/2008-01/high-tech-trash/essick-photography.html It’s great to know about this. Now if EPA could find a way to responsibly recycle all our old tvs and computers so they don’t end up in a reeking dump in Accra, where kids burn the plastic coating off wires so they can sell the copper: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/2008-01/high-tech-trash/essick-photography.html

]]> By: Kathttp://www.inhabitat.com/2008/01/10/the-easy-call-from-the-epa/comment-page-1/#comment-66089 Kat Fri, 11 Jan 2008 04:34:13 +0000 http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/01/10/the-easy-call-from-the-epa/#comment-66089 guess i should have been reading inhabitat on march 8th. doesn't help being a genius if someone else thinks of it first. guess i should have been reading inhabitat on march 8th. doesn’t help being a genius if someone else thinks of it first.

]]> By: Kathttp://www.inhabitat.com/2008/01/10/the-easy-call-from-the-epa/comment-page-1/#comment-66088 Kat Fri, 11 Jan 2008 04:31:59 +0000 http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/01/10/the-easy-call-from-the-epa/#comment-66088 i just read the Related Post "Bike to Power Your Cell Phone." if gyms were to harness all the energy produced by treadmill, eliptical, and stationary bike users, they'd save a ton if they could use it to power all their tvs or sell it back to the grid.also interesting is the added motivation to hop on the exercise equipment. aside from just being lazy, some people feel a little silly that they have to run indoors in one spot to make up for sitting at work all day- aside from being painfully aware of the bleak metaphore- but instead they can be thinking "gotta get my cellphone charged for tomorrow." i like it.guess i should be posting this in that article's comments section. i just read the Related Post “Bike to Power Your Cell Phone.” if gyms were to harness all the energy produced by treadmill, eliptical, and stationary bike users, they’d save a ton if they could use it to power all their tvs or sell it back to the grid.

also interesting is the added motivation to hop on the exercise equipment. aside from just being lazy, some people feel a little silly that they have to run indoors in one spot to make up for sitting at work all day- aside from being painfully aware of the bleak metaphore- but instead they can be thinking “gotta get my cellphone charged for tomorrow.” i like it.

guess i should be posting this in that article’s comments section.

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