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If you really want to do the place up then try to use items you already have lying around instead of going out and purchasing a bunch of items you are just going to throw to the landfill the next day anyway. Buying your fruit, vegetables and other produce locally helps cut down on the fossil fuels that are used to transport the items across the country or even the world. Well, 2011 is here. MORE
Consumers want to see greater reductions in packaging and more activity centred around upcycling where used items are turned into new products. Demand for new and easier ways to recycle is growing as research suggests that waste is a now a major concern for the British public. MORE
Place Rarely Used Items Up High. This may seem obvious, but when many people first move into a home they are more concerned with getting unpacked than placing items on the shelves in the most organized fashion possible. When setting up your pantry, put items you only use once in awhile, such as the baking goods and tools that you only use around Christmas and Thanksgiving, on the very top shelf, and save the lower shelves for every day items. MORE
Used items add a lot of stylish character to any project. Waylon gives a tour of his mindful/eco home. Buying furniture and building materials secondhand is better for the environment and a great way to save money. MORE
But if someone next to me starts eating, that ruins the air-factor and then I do carry a sandwich or so… Also, if temperatures aren’t very high, I carry a minimum amount of water – barely enough for a sip or two before I use the rest for instant coffee. Mobile phone – something I have never learned to like, barely accepted as a potentially useful item. I have a bird guide in it, which I mostly use to search bird songs faster. MORE
However, many feel that more attention should be placed on upcycling which entails turning assumed useless materials into new useful products. It has been in existence ever since humans were in need of innovative applications for everyday used items when rampant consumerism was unavailable. MORE
Dr Husna Ahmed, the co-author of the 2011 Green Guide to Hajj told GreenProphet in an interview that Muslims need to be re-using items like water bottles and also thinking about what they can do beyond their hajj. MORE
It doesn’t take much looking to find an abundant stock of scrap wood to use in a number of settings. Let’s start by seeing some of these reclaimed wood materials after they have made useful items and [&hellip. MORE
Manufactured by women-owned green businesses, our products offer a variety of useful items you will love integrating into your every day life. My AI (internet) friend Sara sent this to my email and I am only too happy to forward it on to you! MORE
by Michael Smith (Veshengro) Recycling is a fraud, a sham, a scam, perpetrated by big business on the citizens and municipalities to make us all feel good about single use packaging. And the same goes for other single-use, or perceived single-use, items of packaging, even for glass jars. MORE
Don''t Let the Bed Bugs Bite: 9 Rules You Shouldn''t Break When Repurposing Items. Green News buying used items recycle reuse MORE
It means asking of our things the only question we should ever ask of them: “Can you fulfill your intended use for me?” Making do is about taming the reflex to discard, replace or upgrade; it’s about using things well, and using them until they are used up. MORE
We need to return to principles of nature, where nothing goes to waste, where every bit of used material becomes a resource for a new cause. To manufacture plastic water bottles, 17 million barrels of oil are used each year. Globally, 40 percent of timber is used to make paper products. MORE
To add to various second-hand finds , I assembled this quick “tablescape&# to give my kitchen and this corner cabinet a fresh lift for the new year using items that have “already seen&# a previous life elsewhere. MORE
Using cloth instead of paper towels to clean up messes, and converting old cloth into cleaning rags and napkins. Making homemade personal care and cleaning products, without using potentially toxic chemicals. Step #2: Reuse your items. Reduce, reuse and recycle is a battle. MORE
Reduce : Just use and buy less. When it comes to food and food waste use everything and leftovers are used the next day. Oh, and guess what, reusable cutlery, plates, cups and such are meant to be washed after use and used again. MORE
One of the cornerstones of the festival was an initiative that encouraged people to bring old and used items with them. In the beginning of September Darb 1718, an art and culture organization in Cairo, hosted a festival to promote recycling in Egypt. It featured a musical performance by El Zabaleen (the Garbage Collectors), a local band famous for reusing old materials as instruments to play their music. MORE
Arash Derambarsh, a municipal councillor for the commune of Courbevoie in Paris, has called for the ban on single-use plastics to be implemented across Europe. The law requires all plastic single-use items to be made from biologically-sourced materials that can be composted after use. MORE
It gets crushed and then used not to make new bottles but inferior products, often road aggregate. Recycling is an industrial process that collects used or abandoned materials, and smashes, melts, shreds or otherwise transforms them into their constituent raw materials. MORE
Finally, beer and bikes go together–better than ever before. With this hand-stitched leather carrier, you can now go on a beer run (or shall we say, beer bike) without grabbing the car keys or cramming the entire six pack in your messenger bag. MORE
Every day, we use resources that forests provide to us, such as timber, firewood, medicinal and edible plants. Use less paper. Use recycled products. 2 Use less paper. Reduce your paper use when you can. 4 Use recycled products. MORE
But since then, we have crossed the threshold of the sustainable resource management, and began using more resources than one planet Earth can possibly provide. We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. Biomass can be also used to fuel our means of transport. MORE
The great majority of those kits, whatever name they go by, contain first of all many items you never ever will have to use, and thus are but a burden to carry and secondly for a knife they often have a cheap, single edge razor blade included which is not just useless but dangerous. MORE
Some tips include using solar heating instead of electrical, switching to natural and organic toiletries and ditching the use of plastic. While on that dream holiday, try not to use single-use plastic. Try to repurpose the use of everyday items. MORE
High toxicity of airborne as well as trans-dermal lead and other heavy metal poisoning is one of the most prominent dangers when using various paints. These metals (normally used in paint production) are invariably washed into our water systems through manual and human waste disposal. MORE
guests can tell housekeeping to leave these slightly used items to reduce water consumption). Form an environmental committee to develop a green plan for energy/water/solid waste use. Housekeeping should use non-toxic cleaning agents and laundry detergent. MORE
One of the cornerstones of the festival was an initiative that encouraged people to bring old and used items with them. In the beginning of September, Darb 1718, an art and culture organization in Cairo, hosted a festival to promote recycling in Egypt. MORE
Plastics are cheap, durable and versatile, and that has made them highly useful in product manufacturing and development. billion metric tons of plastic [1] have entered the world’s business and consumer supply chains, mostly in the form of single-use items destined for disposal. MORE
He shows how to construct both indoor and outdoor furniture in a variety of styles, along with other useful items such as a birdhouse, a toolbox, and even a ukulele. Review by Michael Smith (Veshengro) Wood Pallet Projects by Chris Gleason 128 pages, 9 x 7.5 MORE
In about a minute, using only a sharp knife and a safe cutting base, such as a chopping board, from something tossed into waste stream, a useful item can be created (if you don't just simply reuse it). MORE
You’ll receive power through the same power lines you’ve always used, you’ll just be subsidising renewable energy with every utility bill. You can decide to switch from a company that mostly uses solar or wind to tidal power or hydroelectric. MORE
Until recently, Istanbul’s secondhand clothing culture had been minimal, confined to costume shops, small racks in antique stores, and “eskicis” — old men wheeling carts of used items around the streets of the city. MORE
by Michael Smith (Veshengro) I find it extremely satisfying to make things myself, for myself and for others, whether it is upcycling things from what others consider trash or whether it is making things from other source materials such as wood or leather. MORE
Milk jugs, of all sizes, can also be used as planters, for seed starting as well as for growing plants. Drill holes into the bottoms, and, maybe the sides, of the emptied and cleaned containers, and then use them for growing vegetables or invasive plants, such as mint. MORE
by Michael Smith (Veshengro) Upcycling is, in general, the process where (at least) some of the shape and properties of the original waste product are retained – though not always, and we will come to that later – and where another useful product is produced from it. MORE
Retailers could soon be paying cash for used items of clothing handed in by their customers under novel proposals detailed today. MORE
Whether it's designing a complete interior with recycled items, making decorative art, unique gifts or useful house items, the Goddess makes recycling easy, inexpensive and fun. The Goddess of Garbage never takes out the trash. MORE
Visiting garage sales for furniture to use in your apartment is part of a eco-friendly lifestyle and is also an affordable way of decorating your apartment. Be careful when painting your walls and use ecologically friendly paint that will not damage the environment when it is removed. MORE
( Photo source ) One way to save money, be green, and spend some quality time with your child is to work on a useful project together. The cardboard is doubled for added durability, and the design uses notches and grooves to hold all joints together. The table in the photo is covered with contact paper (for drawers and cupboards), but you could use fabric just as well. What DIY ideas do you have for using items on hand to make your own toys? MORE
by Michael Smith (Veshengro) This is probably the most often used item in my kitchen armory and I have only just realized – honest – that it is. MORE
By being aware of the materials used in construction, one can have a comfortable space that also remains ecologically conscious. When designing a room, consider using items that serve multiple purposes to eliminate the need for extra space. MORE
Even your most worn-out household items can find new homes. Sell used items on eBay or Craigslist , or give them away through your local freecycle. Items donated to qualified charitable organizations can be taken as a tax deduction. MORE
And when they are used to create single-use items, such as plastic bottles and bags, they serve a short-lived purpose and, nearly immediately, end up in the environment. With all of that said, you don’t have to be privy to the environmental and health hazards of single-use plastics to understand that plastics, which withstand the test of time, need not be used by humans for a matter of minutes when it can be avoided. Click here to view the embedded video. MORE
Okay, so maybe you won’t get a free lunch, but if you become part of a small but growing number of people who are members of Cairo’s Freecycle Network , you could get a toaster, a couch, cutlery, couches or even lightly-used clothes – for free. “When I decided to donate all my houseware items to other expats in Cairo, I received emails from people telling me how great it was that I started a freecycle. MORE
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SEPTEMBER 30, 2013
Don''t Let the Bed Bugs Bite: 9 Rules You Shouldn''t Break When Repurposing Items. Green News buying used items recycle reuse
Wend Magazine
MARCH 25, 2011
Finally, beer and bikes go together–better than ever before. With this hand-stitched leather carrier, you can now go on a beer run (or shall we say, beer bike) without grabbing the car keys or cramming the entire six pack in your messenger bag.
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Green Furniture Home Design
DECEMBER 13, 2014
Visiting garage sales for furniture to use in your apartment is part of a eco-friendly lifestyle and is also an affordable way of decorating your apartment. Be careful when painting your walls and use ecologically friendly paint that will not damage the environment when it is removed.
Elephant Journal
AUGUST 27, 2016
Used items add a lot of stylish character to any project. Waylon gives a tour of his mindful/eco home. Buying furniture and building materials secondhand is better for the environment and a great way to save money.
Green (Living) Review
MARCH 29, 2017
by Michael Smith (Veshengro) This is probably the most often used item in my kitchen armory and I have only just realized – honest – that it is.
Wend Magazine
MAY 16, 2011
And when they are used to create single-use items, such as plastic bottles and bags, they serve a short-lived purpose and, nearly immediately, end up in the environment. With all of that said, you don’t have to be privy to the environmental and health hazards of single-use plastics to understand that plastics, which withstand the test of time, need not be used by humans for a matter of minutes when it can be avoided. Click here to view the embedded video.
Green Furniture Home Design
JULY 15, 2013
By being aware of the materials used in construction, one can have a comfortable space that also remains ecologically conscious. When designing a room, consider using items that serve multiple purposes to eliminate the need for extra space.
Green Living Ideas
SEPTEMBER 25, 2015
It doesn’t take much looking to find an abundant stock of scrap wood to use in a number of settings. Let’s start by seeing some of these reclaimed wood materials after they have made useful items and [&hellip.
Green Prophet
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
Some tips include using solar heating instead of electrical, switching to natural and organic toiletries and ditching the use of plastic. While on that dream holiday, try not to use single-use plastic. Try to repurpose the use of everyday items.
Green Home Blog
MARCH 28, 2013
High toxicity of airborne as well as trans-dermal lead and other heavy metal poisoning is one of the most prominent dangers when using various paints. These metals (normally used in paint production) are invariably washed into our water systems through manual and human waste disposal.
Green (Living) Review
SEPTEMBER 30, 2019
It means asking of our things the only question we should ever ask of them: “Can you fulfill your intended use for me?” Making do is about taming the reflex to discard, replace or upgrade; it’s about using things well, and using them until they are used up.
Green (Living) Review
JULY 1, 2012
In about a minute, using only a sharp knife and a safe cutting base, such as a chopping board, from something tossed into waste stream, a useful item can be created (if you don't just simply reuse it).
Greentumble
SEPTEMBER 14, 2018
Using cloth instead of paper towels to clean up messes, and converting old cloth into cleaning rags and napkins. Making homemade personal care and cleaning products, without using potentially toxic chemicals. Step #2: Reuse your items. Reduce, reuse and recycle is a battle.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 26, 2013
But if someone next to me starts eating, that ruins the air-factor and then I do carry a sandwich or so… Also, if temperatures aren’t very high, I carry a minimum amount of water – barely enough for a sip or two before I use the rest for instant coffee. Mobile phone – something I have never learned to like, barely accepted as a potentially useful item. I have a bird guide in it, which I mostly use to search bird songs faster.
Green (Living) Review
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
Milk jugs, of all sizes, can also be used as planters, for seed starting as well as for growing plants. Drill holes into the bottoms, and, maybe the sides, of the emptied and cleaned containers, and then use them for growing vegetables or invasive plants, such as mint.
Green Home Blog
SEPTEMBER 21, 2012
However, many feel that more attention should be placed on upcycling which entails turning assumed useless materials into new useful products. It has been in existence ever since humans were in need of innovative applications for everyday used items when rampant consumerism was unavailable.
Green (Living) Review
AUGUST 2, 2016
It gets crushed and then used not to make new bottles but inferior products, often road aggregate. Recycling is an industrial process that collects used or abandoned materials, and smashes, melts, shreds or otherwise transforms them into their constituent raw materials.
Sustainability Ninja
JANUARY 5, 2011
If you really want to do the place up then try to use items you already have lying around instead of going out and purchasing a bunch of items you are just going to throw to the landfill the next day anyway. Buying your fruit, vegetables and other produce locally helps cut down on the fossil fuels that are used to transport the items across the country or even the world. Well, 2011 is here.
Green Prophet
JULY 1, 2019
You’ll receive power through the same power lines you’ve always used, you’ll just be subsidising renewable energy with every utility bill. You can decide to switch from a company that mostly uses solar or wind to tidal power or hydroelectric.
Celsias
SEPTEMBER 4, 2012
Consumers want to see greater reductions in packaging and more activity centred around upcycling where used items are turned into new products. Demand for new and easier ways to recycle is growing as research suggests that waste is a now a major concern for the British public.
Greentumble
OCTOBER 25, 2017
We need to return to principles of nature, where nothing goes to waste, where every bit of used material becomes a resource for a new cause. To manufacture plastic water bottles, 17 million barrels of oil are used each year. Globally, 40 percent of timber is used to make paper products.
Celsias
JULY 18, 2012
Retailers could soon be paying cash for used items of clothing handed in by their customers under novel proposals detailed today.
Green Furniture Home Design
NOVEMBER 12, 2012
Place Rarely Used Items Up High. This may seem obvious, but when many people first move into a home they are more concerned with getting unpacked than placing items on the shelves in the most organized fashion possible. When setting up your pantry, put items you only use once in awhile, such as the baking goods and tools that you only use around Christmas and Thanksgiving, on the very top shelf, and save the lower shelves for every day items.
Green (Living) Review
MARCH 30, 2013
He shows how to construct both indoor and outdoor furniture in a variety of styles, along with other useful items such as a birdhouse, a toolbox, and even a ukulele. Review by Michael Smith (Veshengro) Wood Pallet Projects by Chris Gleason 128 pages, 9 x 7.5
Greentumble
JUNE 26, 2018
Plastics are cheap, durable and versatile, and that has made them highly useful in product manufacturing and development. billion metric tons of plastic [1] have entered the world’s business and consumer supply chains, mostly in the form of single-use items destined for disposal.
Greentumble
MARCH 15, 2018
Every day, we use resources that forests provide to us, such as timber, firewood, medicinal and edible plants. Use less paper. Use recycled products. 2 Use less paper. Reduce your paper use when you can. 4 Use recycled products.
Green (Living) Review
JUNE 28, 2016
by Michael Smith (Veshengro) I find it extremely satisfying to make things myself, for myself and for others, whether it is upcycling things from what others consider trash or whether it is making things from other source materials such as wood or leather.
The Green Samaritan
JANUARY 7, 2011
To add to various second-hand finds , I assembled this quick “tablescape&# to give my kitchen and this corner cabinet a fresh lift for the new year using items that have “already seen&# a previous life elsewhere.
Green (Living) Review
SEPTEMBER 21, 2017
by Michael Smith (Veshengro) Upcycling is, in general, the process where (at least) some of the shape and properties of the original waste product are retained – though not always, and we will come to that later – and where another useful product is produced from it.
Green Prophet
SEPTEMBER 18, 2012
One of the cornerstones of the festival was an initiative that encouraged people to bring old and used items with them. In the beginning of September, Darb 1718, an art and culture organization in Cairo, hosted a festival to promote recycling in Egypt.
Green (Living) Review
OCTOBER 27, 2018
by Michael Smith (Veshengro) Recycling is a fraud, a sham, a scam, perpetrated by big business on the citizens and municipalities to make us all feel good about single use packaging. And the same goes for other single-use, or perceived single-use, items of packaging, even for glass jars.
Green Earth Journey
MARCH 25, 2010
Even your most worn-out household items can find new homes. Sell used items on eBay or Craigslist , or give them away through your local freecycle. Items donated to qualified charitable organizations can be taken as a tax deduction.
Greentumble
JANUARY 15, 2018
But since then, we have crossed the threshold of the sustainable resource management, and began using more resources than one planet Earth can possibly provide. We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. Biomass can be also used to fuel our means of transport.
Green Prophet
SEPTEMBER 18, 2012
One of the cornerstones of the festival was an initiative that encouraged people to bring old and used items with them. In the beginning of September Darb 1718, an art and culture organization in Cairo, hosted a festival to promote recycling in Egypt. It featured a musical performance by El Zabaleen (the Garbage Collectors), a local band famous for reusing old materials as instruments to play their music.
Green (Living) Review
APRIL 18, 2014
The great majority of those kits, whatever name they go by, contain first of all many items you never ever will have to use, and thus are but a burden to carry and secondly for a knife they often have a cheap, single edge razor blade included which is not just useless but dangerous.
Green (Living) Review
AUGUST 27, 2017
Reduce : Just use and buy less. When it comes to food and food waste use everything and leftovers are used the next day. Oh, and guess what, reusable cutlery, plates, cups and such are meant to be washed after use and used again.
Green Earth Journey
MAY 22, 2009
( Photo source ) One way to save money, be green, and spend some quality time with your child is to work on a useful project together. The cardboard is doubled for added durability, and the design uses notches and grooves to hold all joints together. The table in the photo is covered with contact paper (for drawers and cupboards), but you could use fabric just as well. What DIY ideas do you have for using items on hand to make your own toys?
Green Prophet
SEPTEMBER 24, 2016
Arash Derambarsh, a municipal councillor for the commune of Courbevoie in Paris, has called for the ban on single-use plastics to be implemented across Europe. The law requires all plastic single-use items to be made from biologically-sourced materials that can be composted after use.
Green Prophet
JULY 9, 2015
guests can tell housekeeping to leave these slightly used items to reduce water consumption). Form an environmental committee to develop a green plan for energy/water/solid waste use. Housekeeping should use non-toxic cleaning agents and laundry detergent.
Green (Living) Review
APRIL 15, 2012
Whether it's designing a complete interior with recycled items, making decorative art, unique gifts or useful house items, the Goddess makes recycling easy, inexpensive and fun. The Goddess of Garbage never takes out the trash.
Green Prophet
JULY 2, 2012
Until recently, Istanbul’s secondhand clothing culture had been minimal, confined to costume shops, small racks in antique stores, and “eskicis” — old men wheeling carts of used items around the streets of the city.
Green Prophet
OCTOBER 26, 2012
Dr Husna Ahmed, the co-author of the 2011 Green Guide to Hajj told GreenProphet in an interview that Muslims need to be re-using items like water bottles and also thinking about what they can do beyond their hajj.
Green Prophet
JUNE 29, 2012
Okay, so maybe you won’t get a free lunch, but if you become part of a small but growing number of people who are members of Cairo’s Freecycle Network , you could get a toaster, a couch, cutlery, couches or even lightly-used clothes – for free. “When I decided to donate all my houseware items to other expats in Cairo, I received emails from people telling me how great it was that I started a freecycle.
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