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Environment

An Environmentalist's Guide to Gasoline

Ratings on all the major gas companies.

Scorecard: The Pollution Information Site

Just enter your zip code into this site and it will return all kinds of reports about what type of pollution exists in your area.

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Farmer's Market / CSAs

Community Supported Agriculture (CSAs) list

List of Farmer's Markets in the Milwaukee Area | By Day of the Week

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Food / Ingredients

List of Accidentally Vegan Foods

Did you know that oreos, swedish fish, and several flavors of Jell-O instant pudding are vegan? This is a list of foods that don't advertise themselves as vegan but just happen to be.

Animal Ingredients List

Ever wonder what "carmine" is when you see it as an ingredient (it's crushed beetle, by the way)? This list explains various animal-related ingredients, whether they are used in foods or cosmetics.

Barnivore

Your vegan beer, wine, and liquor guide.

Ingredient Central

Details on where you can find more information than ever before about cleaning product ingredients.

Vegetarian Journal's Guide To Food Ingredients

This is a useful list of ingredients commonly found in many foods and beverages that indicates whether they are vegetarian, vegan, or non-vegetarian. The guide is unique in that they place emphasis on the commercial sources of ingredients most commonly used today while mentioning other possible sources of ingredients.

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Recycling - General

21 Things You Didn't Know You Can Recycle

This is a great summary of where to recycle just about anything.

Best Buy

Now you can bring everything from TVs and computers to DVD players and more to any U.S. Best Buy store, and they'll recycle it. Best Buy does not charge a fee for recycling most consumer electronics. They do charge $10 for TVs, CRTs, monitors and laptops, which is offset with a $10 gift card. They accept up to two items per household per day.

Earth 911

Just enter your zip code and find out about reuse or recycling options for phones, computers, appliances, household items, batteries, electronics, musical instruments, paint, tools, toys, sporting goods, lawn and garden equipment, and more.

eBay Instant Sale

Instant Sale is a fast, convenient way to sell your electronics for cash or recycle them for free.

Eco Squid

Instantly compare cash offers and recycling options from across the web in one easy search for your gadgets. They take cell phones, tablets, cameras, MP3 players, cables, batteries, laptops, and monitors.

Gazelle

Get cash for your gadgets! Every item gets an offer, and you get paid for being environmentally responsible. They pay for shipping and even send you a box.

MyBoneYard

This is a site for recycling working music players, monitors, digital cameras, cell phones, game systems, PCs, laptops, GPS, and camcorders. If the device is working, they may give you money for it.

What Not to Put in the Bin

This is a great article from Earth911.com that offers tons of tips, such as don't bother recycling shredded paper or greasy pizza boxes, and to throw out the plastic bottle tops/caps before putting the bottles into the recycling bin.

Yoink!

Yoink is an easy way to get free things from people near you and give things away you don't need. They offer an interactive map that allows users to search for available free items.

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Recycling Books

Books for Soldiers

This site lets you send to troops once you've registered as a volunteer.

Blue Rocket Books

Great site for finding the best price on the Internet for a book, but you can also sell your books and they'll pay the postage.

Cash4Books.net

Enter the ISBNs of your books, ship them (for free), and get cash.

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Recycling CFL bulbs

Outpost Natural Foods

Not only is it one of our favorite places to shop, but they take back compact fluorescent light bulbs, too!

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Donating/Recycling Computers and Memory

Apple Recycling

Computers for Schools

The Computers for Schools Association is a national non-profit dedicated to providing a low-cost alternative for achieving technology in the classroom.

Dell Recycling

Can't find a computer recycler near you? Dell will take back your computer (even if it's not a Dell) for just $10.

Goodwill Recycling

They recycle computers, keyboards, and monitors that they cannot refurbish.

HP Recycling

MemoryTen

Old memory contains environmentally dangerous levels of lead. Do not throw away your memory!

National Cristina Foundation (NCF)

This not-for-profit foundation is dedicated to the support of training through donated used technology.

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Donating or Recycling Mobile Phones and Batteries

Batteries Plus

Finally, a place that recycles not just rechargable batteries but also single-use batteries as well!

Collective Good: Mobile Phone Recycling

CollectiveGood is the mobile devices recycling resource. If you have spare mobile phones, pagers or PDAs sitting on a shelf or in a drawer, you can recycle them here in an environmentally and socially responsible manner. Or, drop off your old cell phone at your local Staples store as part of a Sierra Club recycling effort.

Office Depot

Don't throw out any rechargable batteries! Office Depot is now collecting used phones and rechargeable batteries for recycling at all 960 Office Depot locations in the U.S. and Canada.

Rechargable Battery Recycling Corporation

RBRC.org can help you recycle your used portable rechargeable batteries and old cell phones. RBRC recycles the following battery chemistries: Nickel Cadmium (Ni-Cd), Nickel Metal Hydride (Ni-MH), Lithium Ion (Li-ion) and Small Sealed Lead (Pb).

Swappa

Swappa makes it easy for anyone to buy and sell fully functional, gently used Android devices.

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Religious

The Schwartz Collection on Judaism, Vegetarianism, and Animal Rights

Fact sheets on Jewish teachings and realities related to health, animals, the environment, resource usage, and hunger.

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