recycling

IDEA: Buy a Recycled Bag
 
-1 votes

WAS sells fashion (satchel, laptop, mini satchel, and baby) bags recycled from PVC billboards which would ordinarily go to the dump!

www.was.co.nz

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Originally submitted by fEDERATION on 27 Feb 2008
IDEA: Watch and Share The Story of Stuff
 
4 votes

Watch the video called The Story of Stuff. It's the story of consumer products, from extraction to disposal via production, distribution and consumption. It's told in an upbeat and entertaining way with cool animations. It's designed to inspire you to think about stuff in a different way. Tell your friends and family about it or show it to your class.
Please vote for this idea, the video is really excellent.

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Originally submitted by renegade.pearl on 14 Jan 2008
PLEDGE: Recycling in the workplace and schools!
 
20 pledges

I don't know about everyone else but my tertiary education provider has just one recylcing bin. Which no-one in my class uses because its on the oppisite side of the school.

**Lets encourage recycling in our workplaces and schools! **

Ask to have recycling bins avaliable for paper and plastic and for them to be in conviniant user friendly locations so that they are utilised!

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Originally submitted by ecochic on 01 Dec 2007
IDEA: rotary clothesline useful
 
1 vote

Old rotary clotheslines are a great resource for the garden, you can get at least six stakes or poles out of them and there is also all that wire. I;ve made some excellent bean frames out of one.

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Originally submitted by kbthomas on 27 Nov 2007
PLEDGE: Ask your council for e-waste recycling
 
17 pledges

Electronic waste is one of the fastest growing waste streams around the world, and most computers have a life span of only 5 years!

In New Zealand the bulk of redundant electronic equipment is being landfilled. Computers contain an array of substances such as lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium or brominated flame retardants. These have all been shown to be harmful to humans and damaging to the environment." Not to mention the pollution of our drinking water.

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Originally submitted by alphamatrix on 19 Nov 2007

little things...

Posted November 14th, 2007 by Jane
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*turning off lights when they are not being used
*when they are on, use the eco-friendly ones
*recycling, but reusing first
*not needing to recycle, becuase you didnt buy something that wears out
*buying local
*walking
*busing
*if taking a car, take someone else who also would also have been taking a car (i.e car pool)
*feed scraps to the compost, or the worms, or the dog, or make enough and no more so that there are no scraps

every little thing counts.

so...Lets work together to do lots of little things to make one big difference!!

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PLEDGE: Furniture
 
77 pledges

Buy second hand, its cheaper, usually made more hardier than modern furniture, and to use a trendy word, its retro. Be it from the 50's, 60's or 70's - does it matter? You can always reuse old fabrics and recover. Try a bit of DIY upholstering. Amazing what you can make. Have a go at making your own furntiure too, using recycled woods, older furniture, anything really. Create new looks. Go for it, theres no comparison to real style when the latest fashion changes often, and there you are with your own distinctive style. Cool!

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Originally submitted by KimmyG on 31 Oct 2007
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