Does single-source recycling work? Well it turns out not really. While the old days of carefully curating five distinct bags of garbage er recycling produced lower participation and increased hassle, it turns out it was better at actually making sure…
Category: Book Donations
Outlook for book donations in 2019
I’m troubled by a number. 320 million. That’s how many books are thrown away each year according to a research study on book recycling. What’s troubling is, besides all those trashed books, what amounts to 640,000 tons, is I’m not…
Donation boxes throughout Denver (video – 2 minutes)
Four Years of Reusing Books and Making Hay
It’s been four since I found ten books on my perssoanl shelves, put em in a book and sent them off to a faraway Amazon fulfillment center. We’ve succeeded in recycling over 500,000 books and made some friends along the…
Denver Book Recycling Suspends Donations (Update)
Updated June 8, 2017 – Denver Book Recycling, a book recycling company in Denver metro, closed it’s doors and took down it’s website recently. It would seem that they are no longer in business. Repeated calls to the the company were…
Used textbook buy back in Denver area
I wanted to personally invite you to our book sale and our book buyback today, which is ongoing at Coyote Ridge Books. Sell more than a $100 worth of books, get $10 bonus cash, from Book Driver. We created this textbook buying on…
Summer and fall 2015 Donation Drive
We are doing a book drive all summer and fall and welcome any books that you feel could help the cause. Spring is a time where we clean out the garage, attic and other pile-able places in our home or apartment.…
Matt weighs in on “book tossing bandit” – May 2015 Update
If you like “News of the Weird” then you might have heard about the mysterious trail of books appearing along Hwy 287 which runs between Denver and Fort Collins, Colo. Liam O’Brien’s post about the Literature Litterbug, also known as…
Book Donations – December 2014
I just wanted to write a quick update to our giving programs during this time of giving and receiving. Donated books continue to stream in. We’ve found that moving, wanting to downsize or even a break-up of a relationship are…
Book Donations June 2014 Update
June 7, 2014 We have completed the first phase of our FirstBook Denver book donation program. We have raised, $232.89 in cash donations $1038.21 in book donations to local charities such as Goodwill and the Vietnam Veterans of America. We…