Online Eco-Friendly Alternatives:
Ecosia is a German based search engine that plants a tree for roughly every 50 searches conducted.
Information:
For detailed information regarding everything e-waste, check out the University of Washington's e-waste website, operated by professor Denise Wilson.
Digital Rubbish: A natural history of electronics is a great scholarly resource to learn academically about connections between planned obsolescence and greater quantities of e-waste.
"The Global Cost of Electronic Waste" is a very useful article that discusses links between planned obsolescence and high concentrations of e-waste.
The U.S. E.P.A.'s website provides location information for e-waste recycling around the country.
Products:
The Girlfriend Collective is a Seattle based apparel company that makes comfortable, everyday yoga and athletic wear out of recycled plastic and reclaimed fabrics.
Precious Plastic provides open-source blueprints for small scale at-home plastic recycling machines.
The Zero Waste Collective is a blog, forum, and shop for all things zero waste.
Whole Foods Market offers grocery products in bulk for consumers to reuse their own containers.
Hydroflask and Klean Kanteen are two fantastic brands for reusable metal bottles.
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