Recycling ideas

Recycling ideas...

Everything old is new again, or so the story goes. Now is the time the winter of many homeowner’s discontent, but make a glorious summer of windfall income come Christmas with gifts made from recycled items and clear a profit that would make Dickens grin. Right now at this...
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Junk Art

Junk Art...

A trip to a new blog made me envy people who had time to shop amongst the junk for art materials.  What does junk consist of? What does the word junk even mean to the new group of people now coming into adulthood? Junk used to mean scrap or distressed raw materials that could not...
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Back to School Recycling

Back to School Recyclin...

This is a hard year to teach kids the beauty of twice owned clothing.  High school is the training ground for forming impressions that will last a lifetime. The ego of the average teenager or college student may find that hard to do in used clothes. But with careful shopping the...
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Incorporating Green Business Motifs

Incorporating Green Bus...

One way to start at the grass roots level of using green materials and recycling junk into profitable sales products is to substitute materials in the supply chain for good obtainable from recycled sources. The mission to inform others about sustainability can be conducted while...
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Recycling Junk as a Business

Recycling Junk as a Bus...

Plasma TV Recycling Junk is business. Big business. But at the micro level it can be as much business as an individual entrepreneur can bring. With the emphasis on re-using existing resources, the Western world is full of things that can be repainted, refinished and repapered into...
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Du Pont’s Green Goo Business Model

Du Pont’s Green G...

The Du Pont Green (Goo) Business Model What goes into a green business model? As more and more businesses and industries try to cap some marketability out of the trend toward sustainability, the question forms itself around the end product and the manufacturing process surrounding...
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Recycling Business Biz

Recycling Business Biz...

Hybrid Car If you have always wanted to start your on business but never found the premise that made your heart sing, chances are a green business could do the trick. A green business can allow an individual or group to meet a business need. Sustainable products are finding their...
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Re-use Trawling List

Re-use Trawling List...

We all drive by that stuff hanging by the curb, and the stacks of lamps piling up by the shabby chic resale shops sleep by night. The thrift shop nearest you has some hidden gem hiding there. But when you happen to be right in front of the stuff, does the brain go blank? Here is...
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Creating Your Greenspace

Creating Your Greenspac...

Heat got you down? Use this weekend or next to create a greenspace on your property that can become the next special place for people at your place to meet, share a drink, talk things over or just rest from the orchestrated, formal, scheduled round of obligations that keep the earth...
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Low Tech Recycling Tonight

Low Tech Recycling Toni...

A lot of posts at www.Recycledjunk.com reach far above what one person can do on their own. But while every contribution helps, sometimes looking around the old homestead makes folks collapse under the stress. 1. Clean Out That Bursting Garage Toss what needs to go out, store what...
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