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Another great resource is available for those looking to recycle those trickier items. A group called ReCORK promotes the recycling of wine corks, and uses them to create trees and forests in efforts to limit climate change.
Their website explains:
"Natural cork, the kind used in wine closures, is a perfect choice for recycling. It’s 100% natural, biodegradable and renewable. There is no reason natural wine corks should end up as garbage when recycled cork can become flooring tiles, building ...
March is National Craft Month, and as someone who indulges in many different crafts I for one will be celebrating with some serious crafting time this month. Whilst crafting can be time intensive it can also be eco-unfriendly so I though today we'd look at some ways to green up our crafting so we can reduce our global crafty footprint. It all basically comes down to the old eco-friendly adage of "reduce, reuse and recycle" but lets look into it further.
Crafts such as knitting and crocheting can be pretty expensive with the cost of tools, and wool but how about instead reusing and ...
The freezer can be a wonderful tool. Sure enough, in addition to keeping your food cold and fresh, it can do the same for other products. Keeping some things cold that you wouldn't normally think to do extends the life ...
Here are some tips for shopping green, eco-friendly, and responsible for clothing and accessories:
Select basic clothing and accessories made from organic cotton and wool. Look for fabrics like hemp and linen which come from naturally pest-resistant plants. Check with the manufacturer or retailer to determine how mush post-treatment was done to the fabrics. Bamboo has been grouped in to the natural textile category with hemp, organic cotton and linen however a recent Wall Street Journal article indicates that bamboo is actually less "eco" and "sustainable" ...
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It seems whatever products we purchase these days we have to think twice about due to rampant overuse of dangerous chemicals, animal testing, sustainability of the product and potential recycling of used products. Some products are available to help though like "Tom's of Maine" toothpaste. Tom's of Maine was founded in 1970 and based on the idea that nature has answers to everyday needs, and that nature not chemicals were the answer. Over the years their teams of herbal experts, dental health ...
Have you been tempted to just toss a used battery in the trash because you don't know where to bring it to properly dispose of it? Or, do you have a pile or used batteries sitting somewhere in your house because you know you need to bring them somewhere to recycle them? Here are some reasons why you should NOT toss them in the trash and some places you can bring your old batteries.
SOME NUMBERS- More than three billion batteries are sold each year in the United States, averaging about 32 per family or ten per person! - ...
Every gardener will know that feeling twice a year when the seed catalogs begin to come through the mail! Spending hours perusing the pages of lovely vegetables, especially in the winter months when the Summer season lays ahead and photo's of succulent homegrown tomatoes and eggplants fill the pages, or as we gardeners call it - garden porn! But really is buying seeds the only way to go? Naturally we can purchase organic non-GMO seeds from sustainable seed growers but how can we gardeners get more eco-friendly? By saving our own seeds and making ourselves more self-sufficient.
The Gap has just started a two week campaign to entice us consumers to bring in our old denim to get a discount on a new pair of jeans. Cotton Incorporated, a cotton-industry funded research and marketing company, has partnered with the Gap do to this drive in about 1,000 of their stores across North America and Puerto Rico.
Your old denim will be given a "new life" by being converted into UltraTouch natural cotton fiber insulation and donated to communities in need. For more information about eco-friendly ...
Occasionally as I'm browsing the internet I come across some items or companies that are eco-friendly and sustainable and I just HAVE to share.
Alchemy Goods
Alchemy Goods says it all with their mission statement "Turning
useless into useful". Alchemy Goods was conceived one day when a busy cyclists messenger bag got stolen, being eco-friendly they didn't want to just run out and replace it. Instead they took a second look around at what was on hand and made something using the old inner tubes from bikes, and Alchemy Goods was born.
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