Source: chicagotribune.com Published: September 12, 2014 By Ellen Jean Hirst What do you do with 15,000 feet of old fire hose? Hammer it onto docks as boat bumpers. Weave it together for jungle gyms. Stretch it into horse fences. Cut it into pieces to sharpen straight...
Source: huffingtonpost.com Published: September 13, 2016 Crocheting has never been so badass. By Yagana Shah You might not think much of those plastic shopping bags you’ve been hoarding in the kitchen, but a group of resourceful older women in Tennessee are putting...
Source: huffingtonpost.com Published: July 21, 2016 Franck DUNOUAU via Getty Images By Carla Herreria Russo Between the multicolored bins, complex facilities and sticky bottles, recycling can seem very intimidating. But it only takes the tiniest bit of extra effort...
Source: inhabitat.com Published: July 14, 2016 Grounds are placed in the carafe, followed by just off-boil water, allowed to steep (many say three minutes is the golden time limit), and then a mesh strainer is plunged down into the carafe to separate the soaked...
Source: thehomestead.guru Published: May 17, 2016 By Catherine Bleish A University in Thailand has spent the past year developing a new type of waterproof bowl made of leaves. The women behind this leaf dinnerware felt called to design a replacement for Styrofoam when...
Source: inhabitat.com Published: May 13, 2016 Fed up with the job market not serving the community and the amount of waste we use, a Kansas City resident decides to put on a cape, and take the streets as a super hero to address something important. Recycling! With...
Source: huffingtonpost.com Published: March 21, 2016 This is an important step for the tech giant. By Valerie Volcovici (Reuters) – Apple Inc on Monday unveiled a robotic system called Liam to take apart junked iPhones and recover valuable materials that can be...
Source: aljazeera.com Published: February 28, 2016 In the landfill near his home, one Bolivian boy collected e-waste to build a robot inspired by the Pixar character Wall-E [Valentino Bellini/Al Jazeera] In the rural town of Patacamaya, Esteban Quispe makes robots...
Source: landfillharmonicmovie.com Published: June 30, 2015 Landfill harmonic follows the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura, a paraguayan musical youth group of kids that live next to one of South America’s largest landfills. This unlikely orchestra plays music from...
