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2. Re-Gift Card Kiosk
The next time your birthday comes and goes and you find yourself with a wallet full of spent gift cards, take them to Best Buy, where you can drop them at one of their new gift-card-recycling kiosks. That's much better than tossing them into the trash; though they seem little, those cards are made from one of the most toxic plastics: PVC, or polyvinyl chloride. The production of PVC releases cancer-causing dioxin into the atmosphere, where it builds up in our food supply, and according to EarthWorks, a company that manufactures biodegradable plastics, more than 75 million pounds of PVC from these cards enters our waste stream each year, rather than being recycled into new cards.
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