recycling
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Don’t Throw Your Old Bicycle In The Trash
There are graveyards of mangled bicycles sitting in vacant lots throughout villages and major cities in China. Local governments have long struggled with what to do with the millions of abandoned bicycles — the result of an initial oversupply to support the country’s bike share program (that later fell apart after major companies involved declared…
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How To Keep Your Egg From Rolling Away
Eggs love to do two things: roll around and break. This is inconvenient at best and messy at worst, but all the tumbling and shell-shattering can be avoided with the help of an old plastic drink cap.
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Use Old Greeting Cards As Bookmarks
Tossing old greeting cards can be guilt-inducing, even for ruthless de-clutterers—which means they have a way of piling up. If you’ve got a stash of old cards that you can’t bear to recycle, there’s an easy way to get some use out of them: repurpose them as bookmarks.
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What Do I Do With All These Plastic Bags?
I do everything I can to avoid using plastic bags — not just because they’re bad for the environment but also because grocery stores and petrol stations have started charging money for them. I recently bought several frozen groceries and opted to carry them home in my arms, like they were a baby.