Tag: Waste

How Not To Waste Your Life [Infographic]

How Not To Waste Your Life [Infographic]

Life is such a slippery word. Before you know it, you are halfway through it, and you start thinking about what you have done. Some people embrace that feeling, while others fear it like the plague. I personally think the reason for that is because what we do or don't do with our lives is in our own ...
Wasting Time At Work: Are You Guilty? [Infographic]

Wasting Time At Work: Are You Guilty? [Infographic]

Do you know how much time you waste at work? The thing is, almost everyone wastes valuable work time on gossip, browsing the Internet and online interaction without even noticing how much time has gone by. When people think of wasting time, they usually think it means time spent doing pretty much no ...
10 Ways To Stop Wasting Water [Infographic]

10 Ways To Stop Wasting Water [Infographic]

Did you know that more people in the world own cell phones than have access to a toilet? Did you know that one in eight people don't have access to clean water? The numbers are staggering, and from what I've read, they are increasing despite the efforts of a lot of people who are committed to correc ...
45,000 Hand-Sewn CDs Become Spectacular Sea Dunes

45,000 Hand-Sewn CDs Become Spectacular Sea Dunes

I sometimes wonder what happened to the recording medium that researchers and experts told us would grace the world right after the CD. I think someone was way off when thinking it would be a physical thing we would buy in a store. The mp3 format, even though it's really not the original mp3 format, ...
Ghana’s eWasteland: Living On The Legacy Of The Digital World

Ghana’s eWasteland: Living On The Legacy Of The Digital World

The shocking pictures below by Andrew McConnell were taken at the Agbogbloshie dump in Accra, Ghana. It's a place where much of the discarded computer equipment and other electronics from the United States, Europe and other countries ends up. Over 3,000 people live here, in the slums, and they make ...
Environment: Mushrooms Break Down Disposable Diapers

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 ...
Waste In Space: It’s Not Just Earth That Needs Cleaning Up

Waste In Space: It’s Not Just Earth That Needs Cleaning Up

I know there is a lot of garbage on earth, that's no surprise, but I never thought about it being in space before. And yes, most of the trash in space is caused by humans. Space debris is commonly defined as nonfunctional, human-made materials in orbit caused by everything from spent booster stages ...
Post-It Revolution: Stop Wasting, Start Ripping

Post-It Revolution: Stop Wasting, Start Ripping

Ever since Post-It notes where introduced, there have been plenty of redesigns and ideas for how to actually increase the use and design of the small note papers. It is no surprise why the Post-It notes have been so successful when you think about all the little things you want to remember each day ...
Flexible Waste Basket: One Less Trip To The Garbage Can

Flexible Waste Basket: One Less Trip To The Garbage Can

If you are like me, you doodle down your new designs on a piece of paper before you get to work. Sometimes it can be a wasteful business though since you end up using up a lot of paper that will only get thrown away, but it goes with the job when designing websites, logos, etc. There is; however, ...
Brick World | How To Repair a (LEGO) Brick!

Brick World | How To Repair a (LEGO) Brick!

With all the talk about LEGO and the massive and exciting amount of LEGO builds presented her on Bit Rebels, I started thinking... Sure there must be some kind of machine that can create life size LEGO bricks for humanity to use instead of those pesky bricks we are using today. Guess what? There i ...
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