A huge amount of waste generated results from the use of disposable plastic bottles. According to makemagazine, " Americans throw away 2 million plastic bottles an hour." Why not put this astounding amount of waste to use instead of sending it to landfills? The YouTube videos Weekend Project: 2 Liter Bottle Recycling, Make a toy car out of a plastic bottle | recycle | re-use | Africa, and Freestyle Friday Episode 20. ...Plastic Bottle = Vase & Flower give some quick and easy reuse ideas for plastic 2 liter bottles. Some projects are suitable fun for kids. Just be sure to provide supervision and adult assistance when needed so no one gets hurt.
Friday, November 30, 2012
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Pet Toy Projects: Trash Toys, Home Made Bird Toys, and Home Made Tunnel Toy for Ferrets
Pets provide ample opportunity for reusing household waste. Like small children, pets can be entertained for a long time with just product packaging. They are also more than happy to play with your trash; but, only allow them to do so if it is safe for your particular pet(s). My dog (a black lab mix), for instance, loved plastic bottles: unscrewing the lid, getting treats out of them, playing fetch with them, tearing the label off, etc. Cats seem to love playing with boxes, packing paper, plastic bags, and milk jug rings are toys. Any pet-safe trash your pet shows interest in is a potential toy. Check out these YouTube videos for more complex reuse ideas: Bird Care: How to Make Bird Toys and Ferret Toys: Homemade Toys for Pet Ferrets.
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Shipping Container Homes
Porta-Bach. Photo courtesy of TreeHugger. |
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Trash Sticks Around
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Monday, November 26, 2012
Project Submission: Shelf
Thank you Mark for submitting your project to Reduce, REUSE, Recycle! Mark's project uses wood reclaimed from a shipping pallet to make a shelf.
Reduce, REUSE, Recycle has passed 1000 views!
I know 1000 isn't much; but, it feels like a pretty big milestone for a start-up blog like this. I will be posting new content each day for the next week to celebrate and am taking the opportunity to reflect on Reduce, REUSE, Recycle thus far. I will be looking at how I have pursued my mission statement and assessing where I am at in terms of my goals.
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Donate Your Old Things, Get New Things By Buying Used
Next time you go to throw something away, stop and think. Is it at/nearing the end of its life? If not, consider donating it. Thrift stores, places such as Goodwill, The Salvation Army, and Disabled American Veterans (DAV), accept donations and, in turn, sell them to fun humanitarian programs. This helps the environment by keeping usable items out of the landfill and contributes to a good cause. Goodwill alone "diverts more than two billion pounds of clothing and household goods every year from landfills."
Poll: Has Reduce, REUSE, Recycle inspired you to reuse?
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Updates, Changes, and Fixes
Updates
New content is soon to come! I took some time off posting to work on publicizing my current content and blog as a whole. There will be new content posted later today or tomorrow at the very latest.Changes
Before I had pages worth of content, jump breaks were pointless. Reduce, REUSE, Recycle has grown enough that I went through and added jump breaks to all of the longer posts. For those that noticed: Yes, some of the posts have been slightly altered. For those that didn't notice: You don't have to go back to read anything. No new content was added. I just changed some of the introductions so that they better summarize the post.Fixes
Recent Comments is back and with a new look!Sunday, November 11, 2012
Shipping Pallet Projects
Used wooden shipping pallets can be reused with some simple modifications or be disassembled and reused in place of buying new wood. The YouTube video Pallet Garden shows how easy it is to create a planter from a shipping pallet, How To Dismantle A Wooden Pallet - Savvas Papasavva demonstrates how to take a pallet apart, Long Bench! shows how to make a bench from pallets and a little supplemental wood, and How to Build a Coffee Table out of Pallet Wood: Project 5 Paint/Distress/Antique Furniture shows how to build a beautiful coffee table from wood reclaimed from shipping pallets.
Saturday, November 3, 2012
Poll: Do you reuse?
See that poll over there on the right near the top of the page? It needs your vote. Voting is just a couple quick and easy clicks then, if you care to share, comment on this post, submit a project, or submit your story!
Paper Projects: Shredded Paper, Newspaper Bags, and Magazine Coasters
Have a bunch of junk mail,
office paper, newspaper, magazines, etc. lying around? Don't throw them
away. Instead put it to use with these easy YouTube videos: Unique Ideas for Reusing Paper, Reuse Paper. Reduce Plastic (how to make recycle bag from newspaper), and Magazine Coasters Tutorial.
Deforestation: Problems and Solutions
Photo courtesy of National Geographic. |
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