Starbucks looks for ways to encourage paper cup recycling
Starbucks sells on average 8.2 million paper cups of coffee a day, all of which can be recycled, but most still end up in landfills. The world’s biggest coffee chain wants to convince everyone from recycling companies to paper mills that it’s worth the effort to recycle paper cups.
Did you know … if we recycled everything we could, nationally we could save 58 million tonnes of CO2 a year, which is equal to the amount absorbed by 64,046 miles of forest.
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Recycled Tshirt Dishcloths | Dollar Store Crafts
I’m sure we all have dodgy old tshirts around the house that we no longer wish to wear but can’t bear to throw out! I love the idea of creating dishcloths out of them - especially because you can then chuck them in the wash to clean them and re-use them over and over again! This would be a great housewarming gift - add some really fancy washing liquid, gloves and tea towels!
Tutorials for Recycling T-Shirts
http://www.julieannart.com/2011/09/tutorials-for-recycling-t-shirts.html
So way way back, in June, I wrote this Studio Organization post, about starting the process of organizing my studio by cleaning out the closet full of junk. Well, it’s September…
These look absolutely fantastic.
(via Upcycled Traffic Sign “Transit” Tall Back Chair by Boris Bally — Chair Blog)
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Litre of Light: Turning a plastic bottle into a light source.
thought you might appreciate this
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-14967535
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Thanks! Keep it coming!
From BBC:
A simple initiative in the Philippines is bringing a bit of brightness into the lives of the country’s poorest people.
The project is called “Litre of Light”, and the technology involved is just a plastic bottle filled with water.
It’s an environmentally-friendly alternative to an electric light bulb, and it’s virtually free.
The BBC’s Kate McGeown reports from Manila.
Pacific Ocean trash patch
Located in the North Pacific Ocean. Floating trash collects in a huge, slowly swirling bowl. Discovered in 1998. There are five different underwater ‘patches’ between Japan and North America.
The area is the world’s LARGEST garbage dump. (About the size of Dallas, Texas).
The patch is made up of billions of tiny pieces of plastic, and it’s basically invisible unless you’re floating in it. While this might seem better, it’s actually much worse for the environment—and for you
Scientists working with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography recently studied small fish in the area and found that they eat as much as 24,000 tons of plastic waste each year.
The toxicity of plastic on this small scale escalates as it goes up the food chain…
Removing the plastic from the ocean would take 250 times the energy required to create it in the first place. Also, any attempt to collect it would do more damage to the fish and other living creatures than good. The only solution is PREVENTION.
Plastic is an enormous environmental problem as “Plastics, like diamonds, are forever”.
For more information:
http://www.good.is/post/transparency-the-great-pacific-garbage-patch/
POWERFUL imagery.
A little bit more on the world’s water shortage problems:
