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Upcycling cigarette butts?  →
It sounds crazy — and in fact it might sound controversial. But the folks at Terracycle, known for creative upcycling of big-company consumer waste, have made a deal with … Big Tobacco! Here’s the thinking, and it’s definitely interesting: We have been attempting to work with the tobacco industry for  some time. And I am happy to say that we recently signed our first and...
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Today’s pallet fix: DIY chair out of a shipping pallet. How-to: Video: DIY Network [Thanks, Mary Cate B.!]
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“The annual event gathered a record number of participants - 36 teams took part in the competition and 45,000 empty milk cartons were used to make boats.” (via Video: Latvians take to the water on milk cartons - Telegraph)
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Ban on plastic bags at L.A. markets is approved -... →
Los Angeles became the largest city in the nation Wednesday to approve a ban on plastic bags at supermarket checkout lines, handing a major victory to clean-water advocates who sought to reduce the amount of trash clogging landfills, the region’s waterways and the ocean. Egged on by actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus and an array of environmental groups, the City Council voted 13 to 1 to phase out...
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The video, made by Mae Ryan for Los Angeles public radio KPCC, traces trash from a burger lunch to its ultimate fate in a landfill. It reminds me of those great, old Sesame Street videos where you got to see what goes on inside crayon factories and peanut butter processing plants. Which is to say that it is awesome. The process you see here, though, is L.A.-centric, which started me wondering:...
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Erasing the Regifting Taboo -- WSJ →
Did you know there is a National Regifting Day? It’s December 20, 2012. Regifting seems like a perfectly rational way to direct something you don’t really want to someone who might appreciate it. But it has a bad rep. This Wall Street Journal writeup reports on research that might help shift attitudes about regifting: Regifting is often presented as synonymous with tackiness, but...
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