Ruchira Shah was just your average young woman with a severe addiction to cute purses and high-end kitchen tools she never used, when one fine day, she decided to quit buying anything new. For a year. After twelve months of personal environmental experiments, Ruchi felt like she wanted to make a larger positive impact, so she decided to back to school, and is currently pursuing a masters degree at...
A Really Great Idea
I have an eco-confession for you all. Back when I was an undergraduate at university, I was one of those bad college students who bought a whole lotta new stuff, and the senior year, dumped it in the dumpster.
Now, to be fair, at the time Craigslist hadn't really taken off, and I don't think Freecycle even existed.
Today it's much easier with those websites, but my dorm here does something that my university could have easily done 10 years ago.
They put boxes in the main lobby where people can dump their stuff. Others are free to take what they like from the boxes. So it's like a nice little white elephant game in the lobby.
Let me tell you something. Those boxes? Never full. People are always looking in, and pulling stuff out.
And frankly, it warms my little ethical consumer heart. Who knew something so simple, could save so much trash from the landfill and potentially keep people from buying new stuff?
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