Take Something Out of the Trash!

For my object that I "took out of the trash" I actually recycled my roommates old computer speakers. I know it is not terribly creative, but it is very practical and it really benefited me.

When we first got to school back in June, my roommate wanted to go out and buy new speakers because the ones he had were getting old and the bass in them was gone. I was actually planning on going out and getting some new speakers as well because I did not bring any from my house. But I decided to save a little bit of cash and just re-use my roommates. Even though they weren't that new and weren't in perfect condition, they still worked perfectly find. Not only did they work perfectly, but they also saved me however much new speakers cost, which I am sure were quite a bit of money. To this day I still use the speakers and probably continue to use them when I move out of my dorm room and move into my new apartment for next year.

Like I said previously this wasn't the most creative route in doing this blog, but I think it is very practical and I believe it was a very green decision on my part. If I did not take up my roommates offer and just let it rot in the trash I would have bought into the Hedonistic Treadmill that Colin Beaven wrote about and we have talked about in class. I would have passed over a perfectly usable item and instead opted to buy new speakers that undoubtedly traveled hundreds if not thousands of miles from factory to factory until I finally would have purchased it at the local Best Buy. Also if I did not use the old speakers they would have been put in the trash and just added to all of the trash that make up our landfills in America.

So even though I didn't necessarily recycle an old item into a new one I believe I still did my part in "rescuing" the abandoned speakers, and I even saved some money in the process.