Library of Things

At a conference on sustainability a few years ago I learned that, on average, a cordless drill is used for nine minutes between the time it comes off the shelf at the hardware store until finds its way into a landfill.

That’s just sickening.  Especially so, when we consider how easy it is to slow down the wasteful consumption of our physical resources by offering all manner of consumer items in a library setting.

 

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