Siavash Ghamaty has introduced “Recycler,” the first recycling-friendly iPhone/iPod touch application for free download. “Recycler” untangles those complicated and seemingly arbitrary PEC plastic codes on the bottom of your recyclables. Acceptable plastic recycling codes vary from location to location. Recycler allows users to add their location’s codes into an attractive interface that makes a green-conscious lifestyle easy.
“I created this application to remind myself of what items I can throw into my recycling and which just don’t go,” Ghamaty says in the press release, “After using this application for a couple of weeks, I ended up memorizing the plastic codes and hope other users do the same. It’s a win for the land fills and environmentalists either way.”
Ghamaty also stated, “It’s not just a Post-It note or reminder on your fridge that triggers memory, especially for the Mac-friendly user. Everything must look as good as the iPhone, visually appeasing and an overall nice experience. I feel I nailed this on a certain level and hope the audience agrees. Mainly, I just want people to recycle more.”
The App Store features other environmentally friendly tools such as Green Meter which focuses on fuel consumption.
More info and download link for Recycler via Apple’s iTunes App Store (link requires iTunes) here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Sarah” for the heads up.]
Great news, the world has been waiting for this
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Does it help when you’re chucking out all your perfectly working firewire equipment?
Will it tell me where to “recycle” my P.O.S. Windows Mobile phone?!?
@ Dead Horse Flogger
Agreed, LOL.
This one might never end.
Send your firewire equipment back to AAPL, they will recycle it under their policy if indeed your firewire items were purchased from them, otherwise donate them to charity so that they can send them to third world countries that have yet to exhaust old technology and to whom your old technology would be new!
i’ll buy your firewire stuff. for cheap though, cause its old tech.
Read the Q and A on the iTunes link. The guy has advertising in this app!
What a cheeseball. Hope you recycle some of that cash dude (to a charity that is).
It’s not much of an app either, it just list the types of plastic and you can deselect them if your locality can’t recycle them.
LOL, firewire. As for recycling, here in Texas we haven’t discovered it yet.
@ Cleetus
I have a Kitchen-Aid blender specially designed for this sorta thing.
Peruchito
The oldest Firewire tech is faster than the newest USB tech.
Why on earth would you prefer technology such as USB2.0 that’s between 17% and 70% slower (depending on the operation) than FireWire 1?
Inquiring minds want to know!