any new recycling ideas?

Question

we are trying to creat a new idea for recycling "paper. plastic...etc"
for our project. we need help to creat a new practical idea not done before. if anyone could help ?
thanks

Answer 1

Get on board with recent proposals and speak up. Recycled water, when you consider the Green Building move think of the amount of recycled materials there are, such as Plastic, paper, wood, carpet and steel. What we clearly overlooked is the water based products that are used to construct the Green Building: a) Paint, Paint is made with at least 30% drinking water, This is a candidate for replacing with Recycled water. b) How about Simple Green, used in everyday cleaning of a Green Building, simply put, it is 75% Drinking water, another candidate for recycled water c) how about the Vehicles transporting goods every day, everywhere. Anti Freeze is 60% drinking water. The collective savings in these type products represent 1/2 a billion gallons a year of drinking water. This is one of the most precious renewable natural resources we have. Yet, we have failed to integrate it into the main stream of commodity products.
Recycled water quality is monitored and managed by Federal Water quality standards, it has been used for decades to irrigate edible food crops. Make a difference, voice your demands for efficient use of recycled water as a school project and net-work with other schools to move the industrial consumers to do so. It's quite simple, If we don't speak up, they will keep the spigot open until it's too late.

Answer 2

I never let grocery stores bag my groceries in plastic bags. i always use paper bags. After i get home and put away my groceries, I put the grocery bags back in my car to reuse the next time i go to the grocery store, I just take them into the store with me. If one of the handles rips or something leaks in it, no big deal, I'll either try and use it for something else (to cover a schoolbook) or I put it into the paper recycle bin!

hope this helps! Maybe when you finish your project you can post your final answer here, like what you actually ended up doing. Take care :)

Answer 3

I try to recycle most things that I can.
One thing I thought you might be interested in is , I recycle all my junk mail. All the catalogs and magazines and cardboard by putting it in a barrow with water in it and stir it up until its in smaller pieces then I pour it into molds that I made and let it dry.I don't stand there stirring it until it falls apart. I have the barrows out by my barn an once in awhile I go there to put more junk mail in and that's when i stir it. I've made some wallboard . I also pour it into some stove pipe and after a day I take it out of the pipe and let it dry into logs which I can burn in my wood stove. It burns ok, about like charcoal.

Answer 4

Here we go ~ something totally different.

I ran across this last month when I was trying to figure out some practical use for beer bottle empties. Almost a hundred years ago, some one actually build a house out of old beer bottles he collected from neighborhood bars. I though it would be extremely cool to build a garden shed or something using the same idea.
I'm sending you a link with a photograph of the house...it's pretty amazing :)

Answer 5

you can make plastic from vegetable sources such as corn, so there probably isn't much real need to recycle it, except to keep it out of landfills maybe. i think a lot of paper products can be replaced with hemp substitutes. it's a more efficient plant for the job. these are red herring environmental issues. the real issues are toxic contamination of the environment with long lasting chemicals such as mercury/heavy metals, MTBE, herbicides, pesticides and such.

Answer 6

well, one way to conserve water during showering, get a large bucket and get a large dipper, when you shower fill the large bucket with water and use the LARGE dipper to pour the water on you, it really is a good way to conserve water and when you do groceries always save the plastic bags, you can always use them for your trash cans at home. Planting many plants in your neighborhood can give plenty of fresh air as well...hope this helped ya tons!

Answer 7

When washing only a few dishes (when I won't be filling up the sink), I fill my watering can with the cold water while I wait for the hot water to kick in. So instead of all the cold water going down the drain unused, it ends up watering the flowers in my window boxes.

Answer 8

My Wife makes all the plastic shopping bags in to floor mats for the bathroom, and She crothers them in to funny faces as plastic bag holders. She also turns them in to outdoor chair's what I may say are very comfortable

Answer 9

recycle all of the illegal aliens back to their own country. There would then be much less trash around.

Answer 10

junk to funk ..make childrens instruments wilth milk containors ..cereal boxes, gift wrap tubes, you can make guitars , rainsticks , kazoos, maraccas, drums ..be creative