Don’t have the yard space for a garden? You can reuse rain gutters to create a lovely herb and salad garden right on the side of your house or garage. Simply attach gutters to a wall, fill with topsoil, and get planting. These gutter planters are perfect for herbs as well as lettuce, and any other vegetables that have shallow roots and don’t spread out too much.
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That’s right, latex as well as lamb skin condoms will biodegrade in your compost. Latex is a 100-percent natural substance that breaks down both in sunlight and water.  Latex condoms do take a bit longer to break down than lambskin but the degradation process does begin almost immediately. Exposure to sunlight quickens the process, but natural microorganisms attack natural rubber even in the dark. Research shows that under similar environmental conditions, latex balloons will biodegrade at about the same rate as a leaf from an oak tree. This research also applies to latex condoms as both products are made from 100% latex. The actual total degradation time will vary depending on the precise conditions, but condoms will break down in your compost pile.
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Recycling involves processing used materials (waste) into new products to reduce the consumption of resources and save money. Recycling is the modern component of waste reduction and is notably third in the “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” hierarchy. (Hashtags for Twitter: #recycling #rcycl #rchk #3r, #3rs)
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FREE COMMUNITY-WIDE RECYCLE & REPURPOSE EVENT FOR DAYLIGHT SAVINGS
‘Fall Back’ into Action to Clean Up and Green Up
The Michigan Green Consortium will once again produce a free community-wide recycle, repurpose and reuse event from 10am until 3pm on Sunday,November 7, 2010 at Parking Lot B in downtown Traverse City. The event is held twice a year, the morning following the time adjustment, and serves as a reminder to residents to renew their pledge to do their part to preserve the environment.
The Daylight Savings Clean Up and Green Up Event will be hosted by the Consortium and a dozen or more local area businesses that provide recycle and reuse services. The event is comprehensive, offering residents the chance to bring recyclable items to one location and at no charge for collection.
Area businesses will be on site that day to process a realm of household goods that have reusable or recyclable value. While not all vendors are yet confirmed, past vendors have included. American Waste; Bay Area Recycling, RecycleChicken, Rifkin Steel, L & B Recycling, Cartridge World, Goodwill, GT Profile’s Shredmonster, TC eWaste, Odom Reusable Building Products, Northern Michigan Garment Restoration, Evergreen Bottle Company, Team Elmer’s and Home Depot.
Michigan Green Consortium is a trade association established in 2008 to promote and support green and sustainable businesses; to educate the business and local community on what should be done to ensure a healthy environment and provides networking opportunities for green
companies. The consortium is funded solely by member dues and public contributions.
To learn out more about the Daylight Savings: Clean Up and Green Up event, call (231) 947-1688 or visit www.mgconline.org
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Wooly Bison bags are made from wool suiting as well as other wool clothing. The bags are lined with cotton and straps and closures are aslo made form found or reclaimed items.Â
These bags are all hand made in Seattle, WA and look really cool.Â
Wooly Bison bags range in price from $14 to $145 and are available for sale online at their Etsy store.
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These cabinets belong to a Barcelona couple who dubbed their new apartment the “R3 Project”—reduce, reuse, recycle, plus some extras, respect and restore. They wanted their home to be “sustainable, fun, and practical.” Their intense eco renovation is profiled in the new April/May issue of ReadyMade, which includes a short tutorial on how to build their awesome recycled wine crate kitchen cabinets.
Here are the direstions according to re-nest.
- Take off the backs and sides of the wooden boxes and remove all the nails.
- Lay out the fronts in your desired design to form the layout of your cabinets as a whole. Overlap and mix different kinds of wood to meet your aesthetic specifications.
- Once you have your layout, cut the 8mm board to the size of each door. (This adds strength.) Use these pieces to mark where to cut the pieces of the wine crates so they fit exactly.
- Mount the crate pieces to the 8mm wooden board with nails or screws (a greener option than glue). Nail from behind the wood boards so the front stays free of hardware. Use nails that are long enough to hold but not so long that they’ll poke through the front.
- Add knobs to any drawers. Attach hinges to each door and install, making sure to level.
- If the wood from the boxes isn’t varnished already, we recommend adding a layer or two so fingerprints and possible cooking spills can easily be removed.
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ForrestConcepts is making the best notbooks by reusing old books. You can buy them for their store at Etsy.com for prices ranging from $15 to $20. Every notebook is different, which makes them even better. As already stated they are available to purchase on line but if you’re the creative type you could probably make your own notebooks from some old books you have sitting around the house. It looks like you would have to cut the binding off of the book and then add the spiral notebook binding.
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Rebirth is a green company that rebuilds and reconstructs old bike frames into new street fixed gear frames with track bike geometry. They design their bikes with hand crafted BMX style reinforcements and rear horizontal drop outs. All of their frames are one of a kind with custom paint or powder coat. Rebirth also does frame and fork repair, rear drop out conversion from road to track, as well as custom design.Â
Rebrth is located at 15601 Producer Lane unit O Huntington Beach Ca 92649. They also provide parts, (new and used) wheel sets, and bicycle maintenance service.
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Re-Knicks are made from carefully selected new and used pants – in both men’s and women’s sizes, each is a one-of-a-kind. They are separated into 3 different categories.
- Standard ReKnicks are lightly used mostly cottons twills – $50/pair, includes USPS Priority shipping
- DeLuxe ReKnicks are new or totally like new cotton twill and wool blends. $55/pair, includes USPS Priority shipping.
- Premium ReKnicks are wool, silk, linen, or other exceptional pants. $60/pair, USPS Priority shipping.
Please add $5.00 for international shipping.
Their most excellent seamstress, Mary Bergman, shortens them, sews darts into the knee to articulate it, and using the extra leg material she constructs the fully-lined three button band, and makes a cell phone pocket for the right leg. An extra swatch of fabric goes into the rear pocket in case you crash and need a patch. Mary also embroiders our Hell Yes logo on the left hem.
Each is unique, so Re-Knicks says to order yours by our stock number.
Here is a list of their current inventory.
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Tired Ol’ Belts, LLC is the brainchild of the hand crafter himself, Matthew Meyer. Tired of his pants falling down while he biked around the city, and even more tired of the boring old belts in his drawer he decided to take matters into his own hands, literally. He’d seen a few belts on the Internet that were similar, but not anything he was looking for. So, after much toiling around in the garage Tired Ol’ Belts was born. All belts are unique and hand crafted. They are made from 100% recycled (and sometimes irregular)bicycle parts, and are 100% vegan. You can also send Tired Ol’ Belts  a favorite tire and they can make it into your new favorite belt.
The only question you have left to ask yourself is, “What’s holding up your pants?”
Tired Ol’ Belts wll also trade you a belt for your metal, or even pay you.
Here is a list of parts they are looking for:
- cranksets that have removable allen-wrench style chainring bolts
- allen-wrench style chainring bolts by themselves
- discarded chain (can be greasy but not rusty)
- discarded cassettes and/or 11t-15t individual cogs and discarded spokes.
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