Tag: landfill
Better E-Waste Disposal: Gadgets Dissolve In Water When You Upgrade
As our world becomes more technology infused, it means there is an increasing number of old gadgets that eventually end up in landfills when they can no longer be useful anymore. Even if we give or sell our old smartphones to people who need them when we upgrade, and even if someone uses them after ...
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How To: Run An Eco-Friendly Home [Chart]
By now we all know how important it is for our precious planet that we recycle and choose the materials we use in our daily lives wisely. Reusing things that we might have previously considered trash is also a great way to give a new life and purpose to materials that might otherwise end up in a lan ...
Steampunk Animal Trophies: A Valuable Recycling Lesson
It's always strange to me whenever I see stuffed animal heads hanging on the wall in someone's home. I know that to a hunter, killing a deer, for example, might be considered a big victory. Having his head cut off and mounted on a piece of wood to display as a trophy is a symbol of the hunter's skil ...
Elegant Lamps Created From Recycled Juice Boxes
Tetra Pak is a company originating in Sweden that makes boxes (called Tetraboxes) in which food and mostly drinks are packaged in. Here in the States, we call those packages "juice boxes," although there are a lot more than just juice drinks packaged in those containers.
On his blog, Ed Chew, a d ...
Environment: Mushrooms Break Down Disposable Diapers
When I was researching this topic today, I couldn't help but think of a recent article Richard wrote called Gross Foods That You Want To Eat Anyway. It was about how, according to a TED speech, we will have to change our food supply in the future so that we will still be able to sustain ourselves an ...
Get Your Geek On: The Circuit Board Coffee Table
This coffee table is completely geektastic on so many levels. We've seen circuit board coffee tables before, like this one Richard wrote about called the Motherboard Coffee Table; however, we've never seen one quite like this.
This table gets the ultimate geek award because the computer parts are ...
Artistic Inspiration: Laptops Created From Wood Scraps
It seems like everyday there are new articles published with ways we can help to save our environment. It's so important that we all make an effort to do what we can to be nice to our planet, after all, for the moment, it's the only place we have to live.
One thing I've learned and that we've wr ...
Recycling: Old Plastic Toys Get A New Life As A Dog
If you have young children, you probably know what it's like to have itty-bitty toys all around your house. Whether it's little plastic numbers, pieces of broken figures or used crayons, that stuff just seems to accumulate everywhere. My son, who is ten years old, has gotten to the age where he is ...
Help the Homeless & the Environment with Plastic Bags
We are very passionate about helping homeless men, women and children. It's hard to imagine what being homeless would be like unless we are put in that situation. Only because I spend so much time assisting people in that predicament, I have learned not to take the simple things in life for grante ...
Retro Bakelite Phone: The True MP3 Player Speaker System!
I always wonder if there is anything out there at all that can actually rival the iPod in terms of sales and market share. I mean, I have honestly been to lazy to find out, but it seems as if Apple has pretty much monopolized this field. By the looks of it, that is not subject to change anytime so ...
A Fun Way To Serve Drinks
When it is very hot outside, it's always nice to drink lots and lots of liquids. I have to confess I have this habit of spilling my drink when I sip straight from a glass. I really don't understand it, but I do. The only way that I can avoid this is by drinking through a straw. However, we all k ...
A Website For A Greener Earth – Now Recycling Is Fun!
There are so many natural calamities and disasters that we hear on the news and experience ourselves like floods and earthquakes. The cause, many times, is because people have been reckless about taking care of our environment. The good thing is that there are a lot of organizations now that are t ...
Wanna Be Cool? – Drink Your Water Out of a Box
We all know the downfalls of drinking bottled water, right? I'm not going to go into any of those, but if you would like to learn more about that, you can read this article published last month on the Mother Nature Network website: 5 reasons not to drink bottled water
It's been a little over a ye ...
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