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Showing posts with label repurposing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label repurposing. Show all posts

Plastic, plastic use, and plastic pollution

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by Michael Smith (Veshengro) Plastic is pervasive nowadays and there is almost no place where you can look and plastic will not be staring...

The reuse economy or reuse sector

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by Michael Smith (Veshengro) New York City Department of Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia thinks, as does the department, that the r...

Reusing and upcycling tin cans

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by Michael Smith (Veshengro) Many food products and produce still come in tin cans of various sizes and while they, the tins, are – mostly...

What to do with an old toothbrush

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by Michael Smith (Veshengro) Over the course of your life, you will buy things that are meant to last, like a home (if you are lucky enoug...

Reusing plastic utensils in the garden

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Reusing plastic utensils (flatware) in the garden (and elsewhere) by Michael Smith (Veshengro) Don't toss those plastic knives, fork...

Eco-friendly storage in the home by reuse and repurposing

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by Michael Smith (Veshengro) Most of us, I am sure, are always trying to find ways to live in a bit more environmentally friendly fashion....

Repurposing NOLA: An entire store full of stuff made from scrap and waste

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Being in New Orleans for the big Greenbuild conference, we didn't get a whole lot of time to look in stores. However it was hard for a T...

Waste has to stop

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by Michael Smith (Veshengro) All waste has to stop and we are the only ones that can do this. We can stop waste and starve the trashcan. ...

Repurposing glass containers

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by Michael Smith (Veshengro) Reusing and repurposing class containers is probably as old as such containers themselves and in times past m...

Too many reports and studies, not enough thinking

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by Michael Smith (Veshengro) Be it the governments or organizations such as FoE reports and studies seem to be in the forefront and it is,...

The real R's of waste management

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by Michael Smith (Veshengro) We keep hearing the mantra “reduce, reuse, recycle” but they way most people seem to perceive it, due to gove...

Why buy what you can make yourself?

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by Michael Smith (Veshengro) Often it is just a case of putting your mind to it and reusing, repurposing or upcyling some bits of waste in...