A common charger, less plastic

The International Telecommunication Union has approved a common cell-phone charger format, using what some of us already have — a mini-USB — as a global standard. This standard means you don’t need a different charger for a new phone — changing phones frequently is a problem in its own right — so they needn’t be… Continue reading A common charger, less plastic

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How Linux can reduce your plastic load

As I mentioned in my answers to Beth Terry, I’ve given up gratuitous electronics purchases to reduce my plastic use. Not that I’m missing anything, except the expense. But since 2003, I’ve been using one version or another (the so-called “distributions”) of the Linux operating system to make the most of my home and work… Continue reading How Linux can reduce your plastic load

SD cards with less plastic

Rise Above Plastics already wrote about an SD flash memory card purchase at Costco, but that’s not what I was thinking about yesterday when I walked to Radio Shack to buy a 8gig SD card on sale. But it turns out that SanDisk product also was in less plastic packaging, though without the handy carrying… Continue reading SD cards with less plastic