aluminum

Curing Your Doggy Doo-Doo Woes … The Green Way!

Julia — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:12:05 -0400

It sounds strange, believe me, I know. But this stuff is the real deal, and it actually can be used on any pet poo.

The company is called Poop Freeze. Their tagline: Just frost and toss. You simply spray the product on the lovely deposit and it freezes it on contact, making it a piece of cake to pick it up with a baggy and toss it away. The process is pretty nasty, ordinarily, as I am sure most of us have experienced it, but this makes it far less squeamish.

And, of course, it’s CFC free! The can is totally recyclable, so don’t forget to drop it in with the aluminums when you’re finished.

Visit their website at www. poop-freeze.com. They even have pet music that you can purchase, and a nifty little bag so that you can take the poop-freeze with you on the go … for those longer walks.

They are shipped via ground UPS, FedEx, or DHL, and shipping costs for all retail orders is $8 per order. Not too shabby if you ask me. You can even buy wholesale if you’ve got quite the litter. Just visit the site and purchase away!

Parking the Bicycles: Who Knew all the Possibilities?

Julia — Thu, 22 May 2008 21:04:47 -0400

More and more people are riding bicycles these days. How many people feel restricted from riding bikes because of issues with theft, or with not knowing where to lock up the bike? My guess would be a lot of people. Fortunately, companies are coming out with all sorts of nifty ways to park and lock bicycles.

The first is BikeLid Systems. These are polyethylene shells attached to a steel bike frame that is cemented into the concrete. They look like little, individual igloos to protect and enclose the bike. Even better, the shells are also made from 90 percent industrial plastic waste materials and recycled steel. You simply lift the unit up and place your bike underneath, and seal it all up with a padlock.

Another option is the Bike Tree. It looks exactly how it sounds; it is a vertically long bike stand and multiple bikes can hang from it at one time. There is a control panel attached to the stand, with finger print sensors. The control panel allows you to lock and unlock your bike. You press the button and the bike correlating with that fingerprint is lowered. It conserves lots of space! How cool is that?!

SLIM, but Modular is an interesting design for parking bikes. It consists of a slanting steel rod that almost looks like the bottom of a ski. It is faced upward and you can park the bike in place, hands-free! It is the wheels and the bike that gets locked in, making it kind of impossible to steal. It’s still in the design phase, but something to get excited about!

Lastly, there are Cyclepods. This looks like a lamp, lampshade included (See Picture!) There are eight spaces on it, and the bikes are placed upward. Like SLIM, the cyclepods can lock the wheels into place. The lampshade type structure protects the bike from ugly weather conditions. They, ALSO, are made from 95 percent recycled aluminum.

Wow. Technology never ceases to amaze me.

Sounds like it’s time dig your bikes out of the garage and get them all spiffed up for the warm weather!

The Benefits of Recycling: Let's Talk Trash

RiverWired.com — Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Sure, recycling benefits the environment in a variety of ways- it uses fewer resources, reduces landfill waste, etc etc. We’ve all heard about the three R’s (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, in case you live under a rock) a thousand times before. With that in mind, we’ve compiled this list of seven facts about recycling that you may not have heard before, in the hopes that this newfound information will invigorate you to take your own personal recycling initiatives to the next level (which, if you’re looking at this website, are probably already pretty stellar in the first place). Here goes:

1. To produce each week’s Sunday newspapers, 500,000 trees must be cut down. If every American recycled just one tenth of their newspapers, we would save about 25,000,000 trees a year.

2. A used aluminum can is recycled and back on the grocery shelf in as little as 60 days, creating a highly efficient closed recycling loop. If thrown away, aluminum cans will stay intact in can form for over 500 years.

3. Over the course of one year in the U.S., the recycling of steel saves enough energy to heat and light 18 million homes.

4. Approximately 1 billion trees worth of paper are thrown away every year in the U.S.

5. Americans use 2,500,000 plastic bottles an hour (!), most of which are thrown away. Recycling plastic saves twice as much energy as burning it in an incinerator.

6. Every year, each American throws out about 1,200 pounds of organic garbage that could have been composted.

7. On average, every American produces about 4.4 pounds of solid waste per day, amounting to almost a ton of trash per person, per year.

You already knew recycling was important. When you examine some of the statistics, however, the numbers are pretty staggering. So pack up your plastic bottles and head to a processing plant already. What are you waiting for?

Sources:

Recycling-Revolution.com

BuyRecycled.com

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