recycling

Creative, Practical And Interesting Ways To Reuse Bottles

bottle raft

At Crookedbrains.  Pictured: raft made of plastic soda bottles.  Must remember to make one of these next summer.

Bottle Houses

A nice history of bottle houses.
From the wild and quirky to the fully domesticated versions....

Sultana, CA jug

Bottle house Kaleva MI

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Big Time recycling

I 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!

Converted train car Orthodox church

More on train car Orthodox churches

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Uses for old credit cards

Credit card magnets

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.

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Cool bench made of salvaged materials

Bench

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?

Another 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.

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Should I put dirty glass in the recycle bin?

A 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.)

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