Hurry and Swap Something Today!
Get rid of something you don’t need, get something you want, and money gets donated to The Sierra Club.
From Swaptree:
In honor of Earth Day this Tuesday, Swaptree.com, the website where you can trade the books, DVDs, CDs, and video games you have, for the ones you want, for free, will be donating $1 dollar for every trade made on Earth Day to The Sierra Club.
So if getting a free book, DVD, video game or CD was not enough, now by signing up and doing a trade, you will also be donating to America’s oldest and largest environmental organization on Swaptree’s dime!
One of the main reasons we started Swaptree was to promote the idea that we should all recycle more and throw away less. After all do we really need 20 million copies of each of the Harry Potter books? Can’t we just trade and share a few hundred thousand?
In recent studies, it was estimated that every book contributes 8.85 pounds of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, while every CD or DVD contributes 2.2 pounds. Furthermore, 100,000 pounds of CDs and DVDs (and their nasty chemicals) are deposited in US landfills every month, while the book industry chops down in excess of 19 million trees yearly. Pretty frightening numbers I am sure you’ll agree. Obviously reducing the consumption of these items would have a positive impact on the environment.
Sounds great, right? I’m going to start swapping now.
April 22nd, 2008 at 6:33 pm
There are a lot of sites like this I’ve found recently.
www.bookmooch.com - books - trade and rack up points to get the books you want or to donate to a cause you choose
www.lala.com - music - swap cds for ones you have longed for
April 22nd, 2008 at 7:56 pm
cool! i’ve been looking for something like this, i have way too many books that i’ll never read again!