Since I’ve given some love to Google in the past, I decided to send some Earth Day love to Yahoo. One reason for the Yahoo love is that their Earth Day logo blows Google’s out of the water this year, plus the A2 Hosting Earth Day tip comes straight from Yahoo.

Yahoo has a database of what are called Reuse Groups. A Reuse Group is a network of people who could throw away items that are still useful, but prefer to post their items to the Reuse Group interface so local people can search the database for free items that they need or want. Instead of these items piling up in a landfill, they can be “re-used” by others who still find them useful.

For example, let’s say that you have two quality bikes and you were going to throw away one of them because you no longer use it Since the bike is in good shape, you decide to post the bike on the reuse group database to find someone that would use the bike instead of having it waste away in a trash dump. Everyone essentially wins. Making Yahoo’s Reuse Groups even more user friendly is that there are a number of groups in every state, making it easy to find a local one.

Just like how A2 Hosting re-uses our own servers, we urge you to find others to re-use the items that you think are junk, but could be useful to others. Earth Day is the perfect day to get involved in a re-use group today.