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Recycling & Manufacturing

The Glass Recycling Company

July 21st, 2009

Promoting the sustainable recycling of glass to protect our environment. Read more »

Freecycle

July 9th, 2009

Welcome! The Freecycle Network™ is made up of 4,774 groups with 6,966,000 members across the globe. It’s a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. It’s all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills. Each local group is moderated by a [...] Read more »

Salvomie

June 16th, 2009

Low value and waste materials offered by construction industry and landscape professionals for reuse or recycling. Read more »

Salvo

June 16th, 2009

Gateway to the world of ARCHITECTURAL SALVAGE & ANTIQUES, doors, fireplaces, furniture, gardens, glass, ironwork, kitchens, lighting, radiators, stone, windows and woodwork. RECLAIMED BUILDING MATERIALS, beams, bricks, flagstones, flooring, roof slates and tiles, timber. Some new, replica and reproduction. Read more »

Green Book

June 16th, 2009

A free online database designed to help specifiers and end users identify products and services that can help to reduce their impact on the environment. Read more »

The Institute’s mission is to provide innovative strategies, working models and timely information to support environmentally sound and equitable community development. To this end, ILSR works with citizens, activists, policymakers and entrepreneurs to design systems, policies and enterprises that meet local or regional needs; to maximize human, material, natural and financial resources; and to ensure [...] Read more »

Recycle More

June 16th, 2009

The one-stop recycling information centre. You will find help and advice on all aspects of recycling at home, at school and in the workplace right here! Read more »

Recycled Solar power

May 20th, 2009

Recycled Solar Power - More DIY How To Projects Read more »

Throughout history, since the dawn of man, we have been a recycling people. We reused anything and everything multiple times before discarding of it - if there was anything left at all. When we were lucky enough to get our hands on something useful, we were careful with it so as to make it [...] Read more »

Recycle

April 23rd, 2009

ecycling is one of those things that everyone knows they should do but can easily toss out reasons why they don’t.
It’s inconvenient.
I don’t have time.
I don’t know which items are recyclable.
Those seem to be the most common reasons. In today’s fast-paced society it goes against everything we do to adopt a habit that takes more [...] Read more »

Recycle is a portrait of a day in the life of Miguel Diaz in the hilly Los Angeles neighborhood of Echo Park. Miguel is a homeless man who is a native of Baja California and departed a few years back when he broke up with his wife, leaving his daughter behind, the queen of his [...] Read more »

Recycling is something we all know we should be doing, however there is no doubt it can be an intimidating process. Sure we know that pop cans can be turned into a bottle depot for a refund and paper can be put in the office recycling bin, but where is all of the other waste we generate every single day go?  It’s safe [...] Read more »

http://www.instructables.com/id/50-Ways-to-Reduce-Your-Impact/

100 Ways to Reduce Your Impact
Developing energy efficient lifestyles are the first step in reducing the
environmental impact that humans have on this earth.  I made this Instructable to
detail many different ways to reduce your impact.  The reader’s implementation of
the tips I provide is extremely important in reducing our impa…
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posted by Melissa Breyer Jul 27, 2008 4:00 am
Seems to me that if manufacturers just stopped making stuff, we’d have plenty of old supplies to keep us clothed, housed, and entertained for quite a while. Instead, those with the money to do so toss things in the dump and replace them with essentially the same [...] Read more »