Recycle - Go on! Do it!
January 19th 2007 10:56
Yesterday, somehow or other, I came across a site called It’s In My Way! (although I see they’ve even left the apostrophe out of the page title). I think I must have had got a link to it from some other site.
Anyway, it appealed to me rather, because it’s based on the idea of recycling, something that’s fairly dear to my heart. I’ve had a bit of a look around it today, and though I hate the design (it uses that formula design that’s so prevalent on forums, with tiny fonts) it does have a neighbourly feel about it.
People want to swap things so that some other person can get use out of what they don’t want, and vice versa. Someone appears to be swapping a Ford Fiesta for a laptop. He hasn’t had any takers yet. Wait! It isn’t a computer-type laptop he’s after but a trail/dirt bike. O…K….
Other people just want rid of something, and know there’ll be someone else out there who could use it. There’s a bit of an issue though, in that those swapping obviously have to live within a reasonable distance of each other. Travelling 500 miles to collect something for the sake of recycling it might be a bit counterproductive.
I thought when I first came across it, it was the sort of site that offers assistance to people in general who want to recycle, but it’s rather more local than that. In fact, when I dig a bit deeper it seems to emanate from Ireland: Tipperary in fact. So it isn’t working within the breadth of the US of A, for once, but in the little country of Ireland.
I’ve been to Ireland - twice. Okay, that’s a bit off-topic.
The news on the site relates to environmental issues in Ireland, too, so if you’re weren’t aware that the Irish had any leanings towards dealing with the environment, this is the place to start.
Sorry if this is a bit garbled: it’s nearly midnight, and I wanted to post this today…
PS, I posted a piece on one of my other blogs today about misreading URLs. Itsinmyway is another one that's easy to misread; in this case as: it sin my way. Hmmm
Anyway, it appealed to me rather, because it’s based on the idea of recycling, something that’s fairly dear to my heart. I’ve had a bit of a look around it today, and though I hate the design (it uses that formula design that’s so prevalent on forums, with tiny fonts) it does have a neighbourly feel about it.
People want to swap things so that some other person can get use out of what they don’t want, and vice versa. Someone appears to be swapping a Ford Fiesta for a laptop. He hasn’t had any takers yet. Wait! It isn’t a computer-type laptop he’s after but a trail/dirt bike. O…K….
Other people just want rid of something, and know there’ll be someone else out there who could use it. There’s a bit of an issue though, in that those swapping obviously have to live within a reasonable distance of each other. Travelling 500 miles to collect something for the sake of recycling it might be a bit counterproductive.
I thought when I first came across it, it was the sort of site that offers assistance to people in general who want to recycle, but it’s rather more local than that. In fact, when I dig a bit deeper it seems to emanate from Ireland: Tipperary in fact. So it isn’t working within the breadth of the US of A, for once, but in the little country of Ireland.
I’ve been to Ireland - twice. Okay, that’s a bit off-topic.
The news on the site relates to environmental issues in Ireland, too, so if you’re weren’t aware that the Irish had any leanings towards dealing with the environment, this is the place to start.
Sorry if this is a bit garbled: it’s nearly midnight, and I wanted to post this today…
PS, I posted a piece on one of my other blogs today about misreading URLs. Itsinmyway is another one that's easy to misread; in this case as: it sin my way. Hmmm
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