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Recycling Gone Wrong: The AOL Throne

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the off-with-their-members dept.

igrp writes "Ever get annoyed with the seemingly endless stream of AOL CDs that make their way to your mailbox? Instead of just tossing them, you could collect about four thousand of them and build yourself an illuminated throne."

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  1. Coralized Link by La+Camiseta · · Score: 5, Informative

    This should work for the text at least...

    http://stupidco.com.nyud.net:8090/aol_throne_intro .html

  2. Recycled? by dead+sun · · Score: 4, Informative
    Isn't turning a slew of AOL CDs into a throne more in the category of reuse instead of recycling? Recycling implies that the plastic from the CDs is somehow melted down and used in a new product.

    There's a reason the slogan was Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. They're listed in order of decreasing positve impact.

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    1. Re:Recycled? by gerardrj · · Score: 4, Informative

      Yes. But the term "recycle" has been so misused by television hosts that the word is coming to mean "any use for an item other than originally intended." I want to scream when I hear a home improvement host say "and we recycled this old bookcase by painting it and putting doors on it to make an armoire". That is NOT recycling, it's re-using.

      Recycle does mean to send the item back to a plant where it is broken down to raw material again, then formed in to a new item.

      Re-use means simply finding a new use for an existing item.

      Recycling is for the most part a waste of resources and causes more pollution than simply creating an item from virgin raw materials (with the exception of metal recycling such as aluminum and steel).

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  3. Mirror by nstrom · · Score: 5, Informative

    I threw up a quick mirror here: http://braincylinder.net.nyud.net:8090/stupidco/ao l_throne_intro.html

  4. Re:OR... by balster+neb · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can disable that (I just did).

    Go to URL about:config. Toggle browser.blink_allowed to false. Simple.

  5. Coral mirror: by swiftstream · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://stupidco.com.nyud.net:8090/aol_throne_intro .html

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