Profiting from Recycled Junk Mail
If you’re interested in living a more eco-friendly lifestyle, here’s something innovative artists have found to reuse this annoying stuff and so can you to help protect the environment and preserve your sanity
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Cash in your Trash?
More often now, chic products that reclaim everyday industrial materials are showing up. Some of our favorites are industrial or utilitarian objects that, with some brilliant creativity, have been repurposed into gorgeous goods for the home. The possibilities of re-using existing but often ignored and overlooked materials in new ways are limitless
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Turn Discarded Cardboard into Profit
Cardboard is a generic non-specific term for a heavy duty paper based product, which are primarily used for packaging goods and materials. It is a bulky, highly recyclable waste and keeping this material out of the waste stream will mean saving landfill space in areas where disposed materials are land filled and reducing pollution through avoided incineration where waste is incinerated.
Businesses can actually make a profit on the recycling of this material and some very clever designers have found innovative methods to use it, creating from portable toilets to entire rooms.
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Turn Waste Heat into Electricity and Save Big Bucks
ElectraTherm, Inc., announced the first commercial installation of their new ”Green Machine”, an electrical generator that recaptures waste heat and turns it into electricity. The generator was recently installed at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Since this system uses heat from other systems that is normally wasted, no additional energy is required to generate electricity, making it a truly “zero emissions” power source.
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Sticky Business
Chewing gum crisis has grown dramatically in recent years. It is now one of the world's most popular forms of confectionery and consumption has jumped in the past years. As a result, a rash of gum blobs has spread across cities and towns all over. At the same time, the cost of cleaning has become extremely expensive, about three times more than producing the stuff in the first place.
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Strike Gold With Biodegradable Picnic Ware
Eco Products has launched a full line of biodegradable food containers made from corn.These containers are made from NatureWorks PLA, a 100% corn-based resin that is full compostable. Throw it in your compost bin when you’re finished and watch it biodegrade in 45-60 days. These containers are for cold and warm foods only and cannot be exposed to heat over 110 degrees.
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Recycle your Prison: Book a 5 Star Jail Cell
It is true that you can recycle anything, and make a profit. Consider prisons, which are probably the last places on Earth most of us would want to spend the night. Instead of demolishing these building when they get out of commission, clever entrepreneurs have converted notoriously terrifying prisons into luxurious 5 star hotels where you can cozily enjoy a stay
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The Secret Formula to Decompose Plastic Bags in 3 Months
A teenage prodigy has developed a new way to decompose plastic bags in just three months! 16 year old Daniel Burd conducted his experiment as a science fair project, and ended up with a revolutionary solution to the plastic plague that has laid waste to ecosystems around the world. By isolating the microorganisms that break down plastic, his research has yielded an industrially scalable way to get rid of this pest that take up space in landfills, litter our streets and parks, pollute the ocean and kill the animals that eat them.
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Fishy Business: Discarded Fish Skin Fashion
Many people who lived near rivers and oceans have used fish skin throughout history. It's not an original idea and tanned fish skins have long been used in Russia and Japan, where they were employed to bind sword handles. What's new is the way these discards are put to use in this brave new world. Two of them show a promising future.
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Make Money with Frankenstein Eco-Design
A new chair is made from the remnants of old to produce a unique piece, full of character. Drawers are constructed out of discarded pieces, found and rescued from flea markets. Reuse pieces from different origin and assemble them into new functional and distinct items, giving new life to discarded furniture.
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Profits Hidden Under the Fallen Leaves
Biodegradable plates from VerTerra (true to the Earth) are a great alternative to yucky paper or plastic dishes. These plates are made from organically-grown palm tree leaves from India. The fallen leaves, which would traditionally have been burned on the roadside, are collected, sterilized, steamed and pressed into plates.
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The Secret of Profitable Electronics Recycling
Our appetite for electronic goods, especially cell phones and computers, is so voracious, we are now threatening to deplete valuable resources and generate huge amounts of toxic materials at the same time. Recycling of electronic goods, when it happens, is difficult, potentially hazardous and immensely labor intensive.
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Cashing In on Recycled Jeans
All over the crafting and recycling world, old jeans are a precious commodity. There are many creative ways to recycle these, turning them from backpacks to book covers. Your jeans can be a fashion statement and a valuable natural resource at the same time. They are made from cotton which is natural, renewable and recyclable. It's also an excellent material for insulation
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Find Riches by Reusing your Sails
The question “Where do all the old sails go? weighed heavy on the minds of two young entrepreneurs on the Atlantic shores of Maine. With this concern for reducing waste in mind, the founders re-appropriated the rugged elegance of the sail to create the best hand crafted bag around.
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Green Really Mattress
Old mattresses are one of the largest consumer products that clutter landfills today. And, each of us has seen the sad old mattress on the side of the road. many mattresses today include polyurethane, formaldehyde and other materials with questionable effects on the environment and human health, Keetsa is an eco-bedding company that takes a thoroughly green approach to mattresses and other sleep products.
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Make Big Bucks with Coffee Grounds
Java-log was invented in 1998 by Rod Sprules, when one evening at his home, he conducted an experiment where he used dried coffee grounds from his coffee maker filter, combined it with candle wax and then compressed it with a pen into an old cigar tube. It burned so well that he made prototypes in a loaf pan and gave it to friends to try … the rest is history.
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Recycle CO2 into DVDs and Get Rich
What if we could take the CO2 from a power plant, and sequester it into commonly used, and quite resilient, products? Carbon based plastics are already sold each year, so they are not a new product. However, using emissions to create those plastics is a new and exciting idea.
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The New Green Great Pyramid
The Egyptian pyramids were built for eternity. A green project called The Great Pyramid is open to every individual and can potentially be any human being’s grave or memorial site. As monumental as it is affordable, it serves all nationalities and religions.
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Entrepreneur Strikes Gold with Everest's Trash
Hundreds of climbers have been drawn to Mount Everest by the challenge of climbing to the top of the world. All these hikers rely on oxygen because the air at the summit has only one-third of the oxygen found at sea level. Over the years, hundreds of bottles piled up along with discarded climbing gear and other trash. It was common practice for climbers to dump gear to save weight on the way down.
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Recycle your Shellfish for Money
Discarded lobster, mussel and clam shells usually end up in landfills. But now a creative artisan from Maine turn them into unusually beautiful serving pieces and tabletops. She makes them by crushing shells into a composite-like material and layering them to create beautiful and unique items.
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