recycling
Creative, Practical And Interesting Ways To Reuse Bottles
December 23, 2009 - 12:10pm | Melvix
At Crookedbrains. Pictured: raft made of plastic soda bottles. Must remember to make one of these next summer.
Bottle Houses
November 4, 2009 - 3:05pm | Cristy
Big Time recycling
November 3, 2009 - 2:42pm | CristyI am fascinated with the clever ways people convert trains, buses, etc. into homes.
So, when we move into the woods, and live in a bus, you can't say you weren't warned!
More on train car Orthodox churches
Uses for old credit cards
October 3, 2009 - 9:53am | Melvix
Lots of interesting ideas for (mostly art) projects using old credit cards.
All this time I've been cutting them up and throwing them out.
Cool bench made of salvaged materials
June 3, 2008 - 2:28pm | Melvix
This bench is made of salvaged materials, including two chairs. It passes the would-I-have-this-in-my-house (wihtimh) test, in my opinion. More here.
via Boing Boing
Does recycling increase resource extraction?
October 10, 2006 - 4:35pm | MelvixAnother interesting (albeit short) discussion about recycling on Ask Metafilter.
The answer: Doubtful. The demand for aluminum is huge and the amount actually recycled is (I am guessing) relatively small and there probably isn't much interest in flooding the market and driving prices down even lower.
Should I put dirty glass in the recycle bin?
August 15, 2006 - 8:36pm | MelvixA fascinating discussion about recycling on Ask Metafilter from March of this year.
(The answer is probably yes, if you're not worried about attracting vermin.)
