Monthly Archives: June, 2012
Upcycling at its finest
Recycling calls for innovation. When recyclers and collectors come up with new ideas for a product that has already met its end-cycle, the green business calls it “upcycling”. It’s taking a product, disassembling the parts and putting it back together to make something new. I just read a recent article in Waste and Recycling News, [...]
Hello operator, can you connect me to GreenMouse?
A bit of history creates a good story for recycling. Alexander Graham Bell’s invention of the telephone, on February 14, 1876, began with his interest in the education of deaf people. In his curiosity, he developed one of the first types of microphones to be used and recorded. Two years after Thomas Edison provided electricity [...]
GreenMouse Recycling: A socially responsible company
At GreenMouse Recycling (GMR), the company exists to make a contribution to responsible recycling, job creation, and community fundraising. We also encourage other companies and organizations to take responsibility for the impact of its recycling activities with customers, employees, communities and the environment. In doing so, we strengthen community loyalty, enhance consumer attitude toward sustainable [...]
The world’s first calculator: The abacus
Some things are just too good to be thrown out and recycled. Making its first appearance in the 4th century, the abacus was designed to help make counting and calculating easier for humans. The abacus design we see today, emerged from 13th century China and included the classically framed eight-to-ten rod set with two [...]
1950s television sets
Here at GreenMouse Recycling (GMR), everyday is like a treasure hunt. We never know what will come through our doors. As a hybrid collector/recycler company, we keep some of the items that we find cool or interesting and place it in our museum while we recycle all the other products that are broken and unused. [...]
