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1.NIM Disposals - scrap metal, recycling, waste haulage, demolition (www.nimdisposals.com)
Since 1964, NIM has worked to protect our environment by initiiating effective waste management programs. Waste management in the residential, commercial and industrial sectors has made NIM one of the most diverse private waste haulers in North America.
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2.Skateboard Park Bench, Nothing but Decks | Skateboarding Magazine (skateboardingmagazine.com)
Who says skaters don’t recycle, it looks like green art to me…
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3.iFixit: The free repair manual (www.ifixit.com)
iFixit is the free repair manual that you can edit.
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4.Beer bottles reblown into drinking glasses in the Boing Boing Bazaar (www.boingboing.net)
Glassblower Nick Paul of Chicago drinks beer.
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5.Recycling Bins That Finally Look Better Than Their Contents (www.greenbiz.com)
But often when designers hit recycling bins with a pretty stick, function goes out the window in favor of form. It gets tough to tell what goes where, so you don't see too many of those models around.
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6.Rug made out of cigarette butts (www.designboom.com)
cigarette butt street rug by jesus bubu negron, 2007
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7.Starbucks Shareholders Reject Recycling Initiative (www.treehugger.com)
last week shareholders at the annual meeting voted against proxy 3, the company's recycling initiative.While 11 percent of Starbucks shareholders were in favor of a proposed recycling initiative, it was far from enough support for the measure's passage.
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8.Reknit - March: Sweater = Hat (www.rekn.it)
1.) you send an old sweater to my mom
2.) she unravels & reknits it into something new.
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9.Materials Monday: Tin Cans As Cladding (www.treehugger.com)
The building skin is partially clad with recycled aluminum cans formed into building blocks about twice the size of concrete blocks
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10.Upcycled Artwork at WomansDay.com - Eco-Friendly Works of Art (www.womansday.com)
Upcycling embraces the idea of making something new out of waste materials. (The term was coined by William McDonough and Michael Braungart, authors of Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things.
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11.Blue Box subsidies in North Bay to continue - (www.thesudburystar.com)
The city will continue to subsidize the cost of Blue Box purchases for residents to ensure it receives grant money.
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12.Recycle This - Creative ideas for reusing and recycling random stuff (www.recyclethis.co.uk)
This site started from a bowl of pistachio nut shells.After we gorged ourselves on their lovely innards, they, the shells, just sat there, looking useful and versatile – but we no idea what we could possibly do with them
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13.Extremi-Tree | xmas tees from recycled pop cans (www.offbeatearth.com)
Why waste a perfectly good tree or buy an artificial one for Christmas? You can Dew it yourself!
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14.t r u t h o u t | US Security Company Offers to Perform "High Threat Terminations" and to Confront "Worker Unrest" in Haiti (www.truthout.org)
The company boasts that it has run “Thousands of successful missions in Iraq & Afghanistan.” As for its personnel, “Each and every member of our team is a former Law Enforcement Officer or former Military service member,” the site claims.
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15.New York - Closing Pipeline to Needy, City Shreds Clothes (www.nytimes.com)
New York City officials destroyed tons of new, unworn clothing and footwear last year that had been seized in raids on counterfeit label operations, abandoning a practice of giving knockoff garments to groups that help the needy.
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16.Bizarre House Made from Bottles | Interior Designs And Home Ideas (www.home-designing.com)
. I mean, sure we have featured some rather odd houses in the past and we even have looked at innovative ways to reuse objects but here is something that establishes a connect between two: A house that uses bottles as a building material!
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17.ReadySetRecycle.com - Greening the Entertainment Industry (readysetrecycle.com)
We are entertainment industry professionals who are appalled to see thousands of tons of scenery, props and costumes ending up in landfill every year.So… we’ve created ReadySetRecycle.com a new website where industry professionals can list such items for sale (or giveaway).
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18.Projects - Yuken Teruya Studio (www.yukenteruyastudio.com)
Pizza Boxes, a McDonald's bag, Flags, Desserts and Toilet Paper rolls... when these items become artworks, they also easily become political, maybe because they are taken from daily life.
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19.oobject » great diy lighting ideas (www.oobject.com)
Here is a collection of lamps, lights and chandeliers made from everything from car parts, umbrellas, bicycles, tableware, old globes, tape measures and speaker parts.
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20.Mattawa in talks for compost plant (www.nugget.ca)
A recycling and waste diversion company is eyeing Mattawa as the site of a new composting plant.Emterra Group is in talks with the town to establish a plant adjacent to the municipal landfill site that would convert organic waste into soil.
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21.Stores Helping Consumers Recycle (www.gogreenstreet.com)
A growing number of stores across the US and Canada are helping consumers make recycling easier buy offering in store recycling programs
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22.Tires recycled into playground mulch (www.gogreenstreet.com)
RubbeRecycle uses advanced technology to turn tires into new products like playground surfaces, rubber curbing and landscaping mulch,
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23.The Environmental Cost of a Free Canvas Bag (www.utne.com)
Most were given to me as promotional materials for design studios, start-ups, and boutique shops; more than one came from an environmental organization; one even commemorates a friend’s wedding. A community group recently delivered a reusable bag to every house in my neighborhood to promote local holiday shopping.
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24.One Love Vintage Clothing -Recycled Fashion (www.onelovevintage.ca)
Welcome to Sudbury’s only source for everything vintage. Our hand picked selection is constantly changing with new items arriving every week.
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25.Efficient Home Improvement: Re-Using Materials Gets Easier (www.metaefficient.com)
For “D.I.Y.”ers, using recycled construction products is a great way to reduce raw material consumption and lessen stress on landfills. But for retailers, the “Re I. Y.” trend (Re-use It Yourself) is taking the idea a step further, giving unused building products a new lease on life