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First Compostable Toothbrush!
There is now a biodegradable toothbrush! 450 million toothbrushes get thrown away every year and most never biodegrade. World Centric now has biodegradable toothbrushes and travel cases that are made from Ingeo, a plant resin. The toothbrush is certified compostable when sent to a commercial composting facility. If you do not have a commercial composting facility, they will send you a prepaid envelope where you can send the toothbrush back for composting! The price is only $4.55 and worth the price to keep toothbrushes out of our landfills!
Happy Brushing!
Source: greenlivingagent
So speaking of benches, this is cool:
Plastic Recycling of Iowa Falls, Inc. produces benches made from recycled plastic bags.
The benches are durable, do not require painting, and the “boards” don’t warp or splinter.
You might be surprised to learn that it takes 10,680 plastic shopping bags to make a single bench, but the more plastic bags it eats up, the better.
In addition to making seven variants of benches, PRIF also makes picnic tables, planters and trash receptacles, all of the same material, which is 96% plastic bags and 4% coloring additive to make it look like wood. They even sell a wide variety of dimensional “lumber”—2×4s, 4×4s, 3×10s, 6×8s, you name it—that can be cut, drilled and nailed like the real stuff, with the added bonus that you’ll never have to paint or reseal the deck/structure/staircase you make out of it.
More: Plastic Recycling of Iowa Falls, Inc.: Using Plastic Bags as a Raw Material Since 1984 - Core77
Source: core77.com
The Keychain iPhone Charger is a lifesaver of photos!
You’ll love this little guy because he’s small and light (fits on your keychain!) and gives you a 30-50% battery boost.
(via thenextweb)
Source: photojojo
Designer of the week (27.5. - 3.6.) is:
Matt - Weasel Works | http://www.etsy.com/shop/WeaselWrks
I am passionate, post-modern and creative. A non-stop thinker, minimalist and eclectic. A dreamer, musician and music lover. I yearn for knowledge. I’m adventurous, a little crazy and rather unusual. A problem solver, energetic, skeptic and self-confident. An amateur physicist and biologist. Handyman but not manly enough. Honest, logical, and (un)disciplined
Source: etsy.com
An innovative initiative is taking place in the Philippines to bring sustainable lighting to homes in impoverished communities. Empty plastic bottles are installed in the roof, filled with water and bleach they refract sunlight. These “solar light bulbs” provide light equivalent to a 55watt light bulb.
See how they’re made here. From Visual News
(via scinerds)
Source: watershedplus
Source: reachforviolet
