#SalemMA - #ZeroWasteSalem Free #BookSwap and #TerraCycle Collection

"Zero Waste Salem Free Book Swap returns to the Community Life Center at 401 Bridge Street on Saturday, March 21 from 10:00am-1:00pm! Swapping isn’t necessary — you may donate, take away, or both.

We accept ONLY books, CDs, DVDs, records (all in original cases, please), plus puzzles and greeting cards. We are also accepting bags (paper, plastic, grocery, cloth) for swapping.

All items must be clean, dry, and mildew free.

TO DONATE, please drop off at the Community Life Center on Friday, March 20 from 4:00-7:00pm, or Saturday, March 21 from 9:00am-noon. Remaining items will be donated.

Please understand that our volunteers will have to sort through and trash anything except the accepted items.

Please respect volunteers’ time and health and DO NOT bring magazines, VHS, old/mildewed/outdated books, home CDs, binders, and cassette tapes.

TERRACYCLE — We’re collecting FIVE TerraCycle categories of otherwise hard-to-recycle items. Please keep each TerraCycle stream separate.
** #Swiffers: All used, dried #Swiffer pads.
** #Razors: All brands of reusable and disposable razors, blades & cartridges, as well as any flexible or rigid plastic packaging they come in.
** Dental Care: Non-electric #toothbrushes, #toothpaste tubes, & #floss containers. All brands, plus toothbrush packaging.
**Brita: #Brita dispenser, Brita pitchers, Brita bottles, Brita standard filters, Brita Stream filters, Brita bottle filters, Brita filter packaging, Brita Longlast® filters, Brita Stream® pitchers.
**#BurtsBees empty product containers and packaging.

IMPORTANT CHANGE: No deodorant or mouthwash bottles accepted as of January 1, 2025. Please place mouthwash bottles (with cap on) into curbside recycling carts."

Source:
https://greensalem.com/event/zero-waste-salem-free-book-swap-terracycle-collection/

#SolarPunkSunday #FreeBookSwap #CDSwap #DVDSwap #RecordSwap #TerracycleCollection #Recycling

Make: 5 More Hacks for Your Discarded Electric Toothbrush. “Hundreds of millions of electric toothbrushes are sadly discarded each year, yet most people don’t realize that toothbrush parts are salvageable! Using the motors and magnets inside discarded electric toothbrushes (and toys and other small electronics) you can build all kinds of practical projects. In Part 1 of this article we […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/18/make-5-more-hacks-for-your-discarded-electric-toothbrush/

Stupid and misleading headline by #bbc

Plastic #toothbrushes with replacable heads do they even exist? #bamboo is better

Full study https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32918023

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20241107-plastic-bamboo-or-electric-toothbrush-which-is-the-more-sustainable
#plastic #plasticpollution #dental #tandverzorging

Corriere.it - Homepage by di Laura Cuppini
Lo spazzolino da denti e il soffione della doccia sono pieni di virus (che «uccidono» i batteri)

I batteriofagi sono virus che infettano i batteri e si replicano al loro interno

Translated:
Toothbrushes and showerheads are full of viruses (that "kill" bacteria).

Bacteriophages are viruses that infect bacteria and replicate inside them.

#Toothbrushes
https://www.corriere.it/salute/malattie_infettive/24_ottobre_17/lo-spazzolino-da-denti-e-il-soffione-della-doccia-sono-pieni-di-virus-che-uccidono-i-batteri-d939fb3c-0b2c-4e8d-84ee-f88d9756cxlk.shtml

#Aid not reaching #Gaza, say relief groups as ‘more than a million go without #food’

#MedicalSupplies, #Toothbrushes and #Shampoo also remain stuck in backlog of lorries unable to enter from Egypt
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/12/gaza-aid-food-medical-supplies-backlog

#Palestine #OPT #Israel #Genocide

“AI toothbrushes” are coming for your teeth—and your data
#privacy #toothbrushes #ai

https://arstechnica.com/?p=2039809

My rutin arrived, along with a batch of toothbrushes?

"A batch?"

Yeah, since they don't expire, I pay less per toothbrush this way.

It's also useful when a partner comes over and then says that they have to go home because they forgot their toothbrush, because I have one on hand just for therm.

Checkmate!  

#toothbrushes #checkmate

The scariest thing about playing #ArkhamCity in 2024 is realizing that, should he seize power again, "the #verystablegenius" would think it's a great idea and do something either similar, if not worse.

The #ChildSeparationPolicy, in a sense, WAS Arkham City, except the "felons" were colored children. Remember the time they defended not allowing children to get #toothbrushes and #toothpaste?

#BatmanArkhamCity
#ArkhamTrilogy
#Rocksteady
#DCEntertainment
#WarnerBrothers
#DCUniverse