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Posts Tagged ‘reuse’
Green living, Recycling, Weird Stuff, Aug 12th, 2010,
Reusable bags can be found everywhere these days. You’ll find them mixed in with handbags, at the airport, or by the checkout line. In most cases, those available in grocery or department stores range between 99 cents and $2.99. Other places (such as the airport) will charge you $10 and up for one of theirs. While using a reusable bag is a great thing (and certainly better than the “paper or plastic?” issue of the past), the cost of them can add up fast—especially if you buy a handful from each store you go to. Say you buy 5 bags,…
Tags: arts and crafts, do-it-yourself, Go Green, guide, homemaking, How to Make a Reusable Bag, instructions, recycle, reduce, reuse, sewing project
Green living, Science & Technology, Weird Stuff, Jun 20th, 2010,
Sometimes people create amazing things from recyclable materials. These creations can range from artwork to the latest green gadget. This week, I am going to tell you about 3 awesome things made from recycled products. Australia’s Printer Cartridge Bike Path The problem with regular paved roads is they always seem to need maintenance. Every time you turn around, they’re doing work on the same stretch of road all over again. The same old methods don’t seem to be cutting it like they used to but finding something new that works can take a lot of time. Well, someone has come…
Tags: awesome, designs, Egg Carton Lamp, Green, Legos Printer, Printer Cartridge Bike Path, recycle, recycled, Recycling, reuse, three
Climate Change, Green living, Jun 2nd, 2010,
There is something that happens in many rural areas around the globe. It’s a fairly common thing and it can also be a fairly dangerous thing, both to your health and to the environment. What am I referring to? Backyard Trash Burning. Yes, in many rural areas—small towns or out in the country—people will burn their trash. Typically, the trash is burned in a burning barrel (usually a 55 gallon metal drum), though some will also burn their garbage in boxes, a wood stove, or even a small pit dug into the ground. Items that are burned consist of things…
Tags: backyard trash burning, damage, danger, disposal, environmental, fire, garbage, hazards, Health, heavy metals, open burning, pollutants, Pollution, recycle, reduce, reuse, trash, waste
Green living, Weird Stuff, May 28th, 2010,
Remember when you were a kid and loved to play with Legos? (Actually, I know quite a few adults that still collect them today). Over the years, pieces can go missing, sets become lost or broken and all that hard work (before the time of step-by-step, color-coded instruction manuals) amounts to nothing. Today, you might have a box or bag of Lego pieces in your attic, bedroom or basement and you may wonder what you could possibly do with them. You don’t have enough to build a house or a zoo exhibit, that’s for sure, and you certainly don’t want…
Tags: Dispatchwork Project, global, Jan Vormann, Legos, recycle, repair, reuse, toys
Green living, Recycling, Weird Stuff, May 15th, 2010,
Recycling has become a fairly common daily routine and social practice. You’ll see recycling bins at airports, amusement parks, shopping centers, and tourist destinations. You may have a recycling station at your place of work, or there might be one at your kids’ school. You do it, your neighbors do it, even celebrities and government officials do it. We may do it for the planet or the greater, greener good; or we may do it simply because it’s legally required in our town, state or country. However, there are still those who don’t do it—or perhaps they do, but they…
Tags: 1-800-GOT-JUNK?, 3-Rs, donations, eBay’s Green Team, electronics recycling, Green, Green living, home recycling, incentive, program, recycle, RecycleBank, Recycling, redeem, reduce, reuse, rewards, Visa Gconomy Card
Green living, Recycling, Mar 15th, 2010,
Guest post by Ian Moise If you are interested to guest post on our blog, click here to create an account or click here to contact us directly. — Am I blind because I do not see? Africa. . . a land of enormous beauty, of warm people, of colorful traditions, of enormous diversity, and of devastating poverty. But with poverty, comes wealth. Africa is a land where everything has value, where someone’s trash is always another person’s resource, where throwing a plastic bottle out the window is recycling, because someone will come along and use that bottle. It is…
Tags: 3-Rs, Ian Moise, Re-Use, recycle, Recycling, reuse, ReUseConnection
Green living, Recycling, Weird Stuff, Jan 22nd, 2010,
Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. We all know of the 3-R mantra by now. Some people live by it almost religiously. Most of us, however, will reduce and recycle, but we seem to skip that reuse step quite often. We see items as trash or junk and usually treat them as such. Instead of being reincarnated into some useful second life, things end up occupying landfills instead. If you want to take a stab at the reuse step—or if you already take that step and simply need inspiration—I suggest you check out Recyclart.org. This site is absolutely awesome! There are tons…
Tags: art and craft projects, creative ways to recycle, finding new uses for old junk, Recyclart, recycle, reduce, reuse
Green living, Recycling, Jan 4th, 2010,
The holidays have come and gone, stores are already stocking shelves for Valentine’s Day, and many of you are probably wondering what on earth to do with that Christmas tree or all those decorations that may have lost their luster. Luckily for you, some people have thought ahead on the matter. Earth911 offers suggestions on how to dispose of your Christmas tree (provided it’s a real tree), including turning it into firewood, mulch or simply throwing it into a body of water. If those options won’t really work for you, they also have a searchable database for places that specialize…
Tags: boxes, Christmas lights, Christmas tree, gift bags, old electronics, post-holiday tips, post-holiday trash, recycle, Recycling, reduce, reuse, wrapping paper
Green living, Aug 14th, 2009,
It is a common misconception that in order to help save the environment, you have to radically alter your current way of life so that it conforms to the new ethical standards of environmentalism. While it is true that driving cars and flying around in airplanes pollute the Earth and contribute to global warming, there are many ways we can offset the damage we do in our decadent gas-guzzling, jet set lifestyles, that can reduce our oversized carbon footprints. And they are surprisingly simple. Conserve water Take shorter showers and don’t leave the faucet running while washing dishes and brushing…
Tags: bottled water, buy local, carbon footprint, conserve water, environment, green transport, reuse, vegetarian
