Tag: Waste Not Want Not

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  How to Tell Which Egg is Freshest, and What You Should Do With the Old One (Video)

  Which eggs in your fridge are the freshest? This simple trick will sort the new from the old, and tell you what to do with the older ones.

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  DOC2DOCK Less Hospital Waste = More Lives Saved (Video)

  U.S. hospitals waste thousands of tons of medical supplies every day. DOC2DOCK collects and redistributes these supplies to match the specific needs of hospitals in the developing world.

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  Upcycled Rubber Design Products; A Flip Flop Story (Photos)

  Studio Schneemann, together with the Kenyan initiative Uniqueco, collect and turn wasted flip flops from the beach into colourful and squichy furniture and lighting.

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  Zero Food Scraps Cuisine from Italy Turns Pea Pods into Delicious Finger Food

  Image Credit: Lisa Casali Lisa Casali is an environmental risk expert by day, and an eco-food blogger by night. Her passion for cooking got her to think about all the stuff that usually doesn't enter the recipe, such as the outer leaves of artichokes,

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  Film Review: To Buy, To Throw Away, To Buy; the Secret History of Planned Obsolescence

  Last month, Catalan TV3 just aired a new documentary called "comprar, llençar, comprar", meaning "to buy, to throw away, to buy" in Catalan, right on time for the christmas shopping and the winter sales which started this week. You can now watch the

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  Best of Inhabitat: Packaging the Future

  Have you ever looked at a product the size of a pea wrapped in a layer of clear film, with a 20 page instruction booklet, vacuum packed in hard plastic, covered by another layer of cardboard and thought, "Why?!"? Well, you're not alone. We, along with

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  Re-Bubble Concept Puts Your Old Soaps in Public Restrooms

  "Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without" -- This is an old saying that is great for living sustainably, and designs that help us live this mantra usually catch our eye. Such is the case with Re-Bubble by designers

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  2% US Energy Consumption is Lost Through Food Waste

  We know Americans are guilty of wasting an inexcusable amount of food every year. In fact, estimates say we waste as much as 40% of our food supply; New York City residents alone waste 270,000 pounds of food every

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  Kimberly-Clark Disposable Hand Towels for the Home Belie Sustainability Promise

  "Kimberly-Clark has long recognized the importance of corporate responsibility and integrated the concept of sustainability in our business practices," the FAQ on Kleenex Hand Towels reassuringly announces. "At

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  Making a No Impact Movie About No Impact Man

  Making a movie about No Impact Man means also going no impact during filming...or at least as low

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  Burts Bees Saves $25,000 a Year After Dumpster Diving

  Burt's Bees employees stocked up two weeks of trash. They then suited up in Haz-Mat gear and dove in.

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  From the Forums: What to Do With Disposable Diapers?

  We have a newborn and have a cloth diaper service. The problem is we got a few disposable diapers for gifts which came with the packages opened ("a diaper cake" which is pretty sad). So we have quite a few

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  Top 7 Green Categories of 7 Green Lists of 7 Green Things

  In the never ending battle to beat out absurdities such as Stewie the Grape Stomping Reporter and the real 19th century vampire kit that is (apparently) a must have, here is a little contribution that picks up on my last

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  Top 7 Green Lists of 7 Green Things

  Seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven, seven! It's a magic number; people are addicted to the number seven. Doesn't it feel good, just looking at all those sevens? You get a thrill right, something deep down inside, a little

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  Save Paper, Save Money: 5 Free Software Downloads That Spare Your Printer

  Printing out pages and pages of emails, websites and the like is getting more and more pointless, expensive, and, thankfully, taboo both at home and in the business world. However, there are still times when printing is necessary or

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  Biofuel Crops to be Fertilized By Landfill Ooze

  Landfills aren’t just dumping grounds. All that rot can produce usable energy. Many landfills are already prized turf with methane being used as a fuel source, and cellulosic biofuel plants pillaging the refuse headed towards

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  Waste Not, Want Not: Soap Bank from DesigNoDoubt

  Getting every last bit of soap from a bar to do its job can be tricky; the smaller it gets, the harder it is to handle those slick little buggers. Instead of trying to mash them together, or into a new bar, the Korean design team DesigNoDoubt has a

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  Waste Not, Want Not: Peak Bath Concept by Lyndon Craig

  Not to be confused with peak oil, peak copper, peak coal, peak natural gas or even Peak beer (wha?) comes Peak Bath. A finalist for this year's Bathroom Innovation Award in Australia, the design heeds the bent-knee convention of most bath users to cut