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1. Cool Recycling and Salvage Crafts Today's focus on the environment means that more people are getting into recycling. But with a bit of imagination you can make beautiful and unique products out of your waste. 'Upcycle' bits and pieces of garbage into decorative items for your home,...
2. Reusing Household Items For Green Crafts Wait, before you throw out all those paper towel rolls, popsicle sticks, old broken crayons, unwanted towels, holey jeans and t-shirts and plastic shopping bags...did you know that they can be reused to make other fun things? There's a really fun mo...
3. How to Properly Dispose of Paint The correct way of how to dispose of household paint hasn't been widely advertised. Household paint can cause huge hazards. If simply left inside of a garbage dumpster or truck, there is a huge chance that the paint can leak onto the trash and eventu...
4. Plastic Bags - Let's do something about them or with them! Ah...the plastic bag. While they are found everywhere these days, there was a time when they were more difficult to find. Today they're found in the streets, tree branches and streams - in every corner of this planet.
5. How to recycle used batteries Batteries are all over the place, we can see it in all kinds of electronic devices. A battery is an electrochemical device to convert chemical energy to electrical energy to provide power to our electronic devices. The chemical used in battery will p...
6. Recycle and Reuse: Household Crafts Recycling by definition is the processing of used or waste material so that it can be used again, instead of being wasted.* The word recycling is used more casually to describe the process of keeping things from ending up in the trash. Whether this m...
7. Reduce, Reuse and Recycle Everything in Your Life Is your life as green as it could be? Chances are, there's some aspect of your life that you can reduce, reuse, or recycle part of it. This lens will run through a typical day (and some not so typical days) and the events that occur, then the green a...
8. Garbage Patch The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, also described as the Eastern Garbage Patch or the Pacific Trash Vortex, is a gyre of marine litter in the central North Pacific Ocean located roughly between 135° to 155°W and 35° to 42°N and estimated to be twice th...
9. The Best Minimizer Bras | My Preferences and Reviews Minimizer bras are a blessing for us women who want to make our breasts appear smaller and look thinner. They provide more comfort and support than normal bras, make our clothes fit better thus providing confidence about our appearance.   Minimi...
10. Recycle Symbol T-Shirts & Gifts Recycling ~~ while it has always been important, has recently come into the public eye even more so than usual. Environmental concerns aren't going away, and everyone can do with a friendly reminder once in a while to Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle.
11. Let's Stop Polluting the Oceans! Plastics are devastating our oceans and sea creatures. A few months ago, I presented to a group of 7th graders about the harmful effects of plastics, especially in our oceans. Oprah also brought attention to the problem after seeing a video of the P...
12. 50 Things you can Reduce The first step in going green is to reduce the amount of things that you throw away and consume. These means reducing your energy bills, your grocery bills, water usage, and gas consumption. This can be one of the most rewarding forms of leading a gr...
13. Recycle 411 Guide This lens will help you recycle, upcycle, crecycle, freecycle and reuse just about everything. Just remember when it comes to living a sustainable life reducing is more important. Feel free to share your recycling advice and if you think this lens wo...
14. Where to Find Eco-Friendly Bags Do you want to help out the environment but are so tired of providing free advertising for your grocery or department store? Then you've come to the right place. Here is a selection of retailers that offer chic, clever or simply pretty alternatives...
15. Your Green Guide: How To Live A Greener Life Are you looking for more information about how to live a greener, more eco-friendly life? Concerned about global warming? Do you want to learn more about issues affecting our environment? I started Your Green Guide to help! In my years of work with no...
16. Ways to Reuse Old Medicine Bottles Prescription pill bottles can multiply quickly when you receive new ones at the pharmacy each month. Read on for a few ideas of how to reduce waste and find new uses for your empty medicine bottles!
17. How To Reuse Used Sheets What to do with bed sheets when it's time to replace them? Reuse them, of course! No need to trash them when they can continue enjoy a useful life as something 'new'! Anyone can use the ideas here, but if you're a bit crafty and like to sew - so muc...
18. Reuse It All - Zero Waste This lens is dedicated to reusing everything produced in a normal household as waste. As I collect reuse information, I will place it on this lens. Eventually, I hope to have a lens with tips on reuse anything and everything. Zero waste means a healt...
19. 10 Things Moms Can Do To Reduce Environmental Impact AND Have Healthier Kids Whether you're a health nut or a tree hugger, going green and reducing your environmental impact is a good thing. It's not just healthier for the environment - it's healthier for people, too! That double benefit is what makes it worth your while as a...
20. Green Living Made Easy Welcome! Have you thought about living green but just don't know where to start? You don't have to do it all at once, small changes make a big difference. Choose one green habit and work on that. Before you know it you will be living green. This lens...