Tag: Zero Waste

Izzie Ramirez of Vox on how the cult of consumerism ushered in an era of badly made products.

“What started in 2013 as a hyperlocal network of ‘circular gift economies’ in Bainbridge Island, Washington, has ballooned into a constellation of Buy Nothing groups with 4.3 million members in 44 countries,” Taylor Telford reports. “Members can request or offer any item or service as long as it’s legal; however buying, selling and bartering are prohibited.”

For years, people have taken used monitors and other electronics to Kent’s Total Reclaim, falsely believing that their gear was being responsibly recycled. But that wasn’t the case.