![Via philk:
unconsumption:
Recycled parking meters collect donations for Montréal’s homeless — Springwise
[hat tip to Maria Popova (@brainpicker)]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55a74557e4b0b80ded0421f1/1437979191208-TKXOJZJT1CWO164ROUNC/image-asset.jpeg)
Via philk:
Recycled parking meters collect donations for Montréal’s homeless — Springwise
[hat tip to Maria Popova (@brainpicker)]
Via unconsumption:
To help reduce packaging waste, Columbia Sportswear has, for the past year, offered customers the option of having their purchases shipped in slightly used cardboard boxes.
The story gets better: The company went a step further by offering recycled boxes labeled with QR Codes, and created a tracking/story-sharing program known as A Box Life. Customers who request and receive coded boxes are asked to enter on the Box Life Web site their locations, stories, and boxes’ unique codes — a ”See where it’s been. Share where it’s going.” opportunity.
The screen shot I captured this evening (August 2) shows 2,704 used boxes traveling more than 1.4 million miles, saving almost 1,400 boxes. Wouldn’t you say that’s an impressive story, so far?
Related: Unconsumption post and Murketing.com post about using QR Codes to provide context, to share the narrative of things
