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8 Crazy Car Re-Uses
We have done some reuse Car things, I keep coming across more and more fun ways to reuse cars. Eye Just Gotta Eco Ya Approximately ten million cars are scrapped in the United States every year. The handling of scrapped car has created an industry that consistently rates as one of the twenty largest in [...]
9 Examples of Plastic Bottle Boats
I am becoming a little obsessed with bottle boats and probably because I pick up an average of 30 plastic bottles/day on the beach. That is in 1/4 mile of beach along the towel line and is about 1/3 the amount of bottles that can be picked up. Normally what I do is get home, [...]
20,000 Plastic Bags For Octopus Sculpture
“20,00 Bags Under The Sea ” is a award winning sculpture by by the Australian artist Jacq Chorlton in 2010. The Octopus is around 13 Feet and is made of 20,000 woven recycled plastic bags. Jacq Chorlton is an artist who owns Funkydory Art, which is art primarily made with recycled materials. It won the ‘The [...]
Repurposing Tree Trunks Or Stumps
A friend on mine on Facebook, recently had to take down a tree and wondered what to do with the trunk. Should he take out the stump or reuse it? I voted to reuse it, as I had to take out 5 Ficus trees, that destroyed my fence and were working on the sidewalk and [...]
10 Apps For A Greener Garden
Whether you’re a veteran, green-thumbed gardening enthusiast or are getting your hands dirty for the first time, the iPhone is a tool that you may find is surprisingly useful in your quest to cultivate a luscious, thriving oasis of plant life. These ten iPhone apps provide the perfect mix for successfully planting a year-round, evergreen [...]
22 Examples of Upcycled Mailboxes
When I first started this post, it was on reusing computers and it worked into reusing material into mailboxes. Little did I know how many creative and upcycled mailboxes there are. Hundreds, and now all I can think of is I want a new mailbox! Mine is so boring! 1.) Reuse Truck parts: 2.) Transporting [...]
Happy Earth Day- What If There Were No Treehuggers?
Monday, April 22 is Earth Day and I am writing this post because several weeks ago, we were having a family day and the subject of cars came up, my nephew scoffed at Prius cars and I asked him why.. The answer: If you drove a Prius, a boring car, you just might be considered [...]
Swap-O-Matic Vending Machine
Now this is cool and I hope they go national. The Swap-O-Matic Vending Machine allows the user to Trade/Swap/Donate goods they no longer need. Think about it, you are walking by a Swapper and something catches your eye.. what are you going to do? Go home and think about swapping stuff you don’t want anymore. [...]
Environmental Friendly Mosquito Trap
This simple and effective trap only takes a few minutes to build and you can build as many as you like. One of the cool things, this is environmental friendly, natural products, and uses recycled plastic bottles. Each year, around one million individuals, a large part of whom are kids, need to be hospitalize for [...]
Ocean Plastic Trash Into Bottles
As someone who picks up beach trash almost on a daily basis, I can’t even begin to tell you the amount of plastic that is on the beach. On an average day, I pick up over 30 plastic bottles, 15 beach toys, 40 straws, 100 pieces of plastic packaging, 7 shoes a day, 1 frisbee, [...]
Reusing Trees Into Fairie Gardens And Furniture
I spent last weekend taking out 3 trees along with the stumps. Hated it, but it was buckling the sidewalk, my fence was coming down and my neighbor just had Roto Rooter over to clean out roots from one of his pipes… My yard feels naked but, at least I will now be on the [...]
15 Ways To Recycle Old Doors
Have you seen the cost of doors lately? The good news is that doors are easily reusable. You can donate them to any Habit For Humanity, most salvage places will take them and they are easy to sell and repair. Worse case scenario, burn them. 1.) In The Garden Source: hometalk.com via Green Eco Services [...]
Eco Friendly Fundraisers By Terracycle
One company that I greatly admire is Terracycle. What they do is get teams (brigades) together to recycle things that normally go in the trash. They turn around and reuse them to make all sorts of eco-goodies. Now, I had a friend, who collected shoes to raise funds to go on a mission trip. Since [...]
18 Ways To Reuse Clay Pots In Your Garden
Clay Pots- Terra Cotta Pots are expensive yet it seems they are in every garage sale. I even found 3 pots on the beach! There are so many ways you can reuse clay pots and especially broken clay pots. But in case you have a ton of clay pots you don’t want anymore check out [...]
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