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Recycling & Reuse

The Phattest Water Butt of All

July 21, 2010
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It should surprise no one (but delight everyone) that some clever person has produced a water butt in the shape of a butt. (Note for the non-Brits: Water Butt = [...]

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Does this water butt make me look phat?

July 16, 2010
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Why, yes it does, because as you surely know by now, collecting rainwater for garden re-use in “water butts” (known as “rain barrels” here in the US) is a smooth [...]

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Redneck Reuse: Toilet Tank Planter

June 15, 2010
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Hooray for redneck reuse! Isn’t it grand to live in an age in which you can park broken toilet parts in your garden  and be viewed as eco-aware rather than [...]

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Eco-Absurdity: The Water-Soluble Wedding Dress

May 18, 2010
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What a dilemma: say you’re a greenie bride, and you’re tortured because, after your big day, there’s no recycling outlet for your wedding dress. And it’s not compostable, either! Reuse [...]

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DIY Upside-Downy Tomato Planter

April 14, 2010
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You’ve seen it on TV and you want one, right? Here’s how I made a DIY tomato planter (aka “topsy turvy” planter) out of PET trash and recycled objects around [...]

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Wild Recycling: Flush Away Cancer

March 18, 2010
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I’m always on the lookout for new ideas on how to recycle old toilets (like this and this) and “Flush Away Cancer” demonstrates wild and wonderful out-of-the-bowl thinking on creative loo [...]

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What Modern Water Engineers Can Learn from Ancient Infrastructure

December 17, 2009

From TED: The ancient ingenuity of water harvesting: With wisdom and wit, Anupam Mishra talks about the amazing feats of engineering built centuries ago by the people of India’s Golden [...]

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I Feel Good, I Knew That I Would, Now

December 5, 2009

Via the post, “Don’t Make That Indian Cry” at wheresmyjetpack.blogspot.com,

Do I recycle? Yes, almost obsessively. But if I were completely honest, I would admit that the activity is more [...]

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Ready to Rinse Away Your Plastic Waste?

November 17, 2009

Is this beginning of a new class of “something in the water?” The Harmless-Dissolve bag is a new approach to eco-packaging, a biodegradable, compostable water-dissolvable bag that almost disappears before [...]

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When a Plain-Jane Rain Barrel Simply Won’t Do

October 19, 2009

Saving water is stylish now! And a consequence of that is more high-design products with which to stylishly save water! While that DIY-hacked, second-hand barrel you dragged from the dump [...]

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