SESC Pompeia is not only a beautifully recycled building, but also part of an interesting Brazilian program to finance social change through taxes on commercial activities.
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Recycled Factory Thrives As Social Center Supported by Brazil’s Commerce...
SolarCity, the biggest installer of solar energy systems in the U.S., and Tesla Motors, the electric car startup, are intimately linked via Elon Musk, the Chairman of the former and CEO of the latter.
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Tesla’s Electric Car Battery Tech Could End Up Powering Your...
Apologies for the break in blogging – I’ve been super busy with other things over the last month. And in my absence, Recycle This had its sixth birthday! Happy Birthday website! Anyway, moving on: we’ve had an email from Stephanie about toilet seats: I just came into about 25 toilet seat all different colors (red, yellow, green, blue….) I know they can be reused but I’m stuck. I thought the game horse shoes but they don’t have the open front, I...
Turn trash into a school garden in Harlem by recycling drink bottles in Times Square today.
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Drink Bottles Recycled Today in Times Square will be Converted into a School...
Save money on a compost bin by building your own. You can recycle wooden pallets, trash cans, barrels and cinder blocks for these projects.
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4 DIY Compost Bins You Can Build in One Day...
Everyday, children and adults wander into the countryside to find metal, like bomblets and weapons from the second Indochina war, to sell as scrap metal or souvenirs to tourists, or to turn into useful objects, only if they don’t explode beforehand.
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Deadly Recycling. How Kids in Laos Gather Explosive War Scrap to Put to...
In the world of recycled paper, there remains a previously overlooked source of pulp that’s literally being flushed down the toilet every day. (Hint: It’s feces.)
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Israeli Company Wants to Make Paper From Your...
Spanish company Lucirmás debuts Pure-Bottle, a fully recycled and recyclable table set which consists of a glass, lantern and spoon.
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Lucirmás Turns Single Wine Bottles into 3-Piece Table...
This country house keeps it simple by using two recycled, prefab shipping containers, while respecting the growth and preservation of two existing trees.
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Rustic Prefab Shipping Container House Wraps Around Two...
Lyndon has emailed to ask about reusing – or recycling – propane gas canisters (the ones for heating, barbecues or patio heaters etc): Trying to tidy up the yard at work, what can I do with some old gas bottles? If there is a company name on the bottles (like Calor Gas, Flo Gas or TotalGaz – to name but three), the safest/laziest thing might be to contact them to see if they could pick them up – gas bottles get reused again and again by gas supply companies...
