I Recycle Stories of Experiences

I picked up an old fire extinguisher out of the dumpster. I made a yard, gate bell out of it..It don't sound too bad for being aluminum..





I was given a pitchfork head without a handle. So I recycled some fence top rail to make a handle. Nice and lite yet strong..

here's the results..

I like reusing office furniture, chair/table legs, floor/desk lamps, fence rails/posts. That is the type of reuse of materials I used to make these crosses. The chrome ones look kinda fancy...

I have found a use for those election sign wire stakes. I have been making rings out of them. They are good for pull pin rings and for hanging tools with handles.

 

 

 

 

The rings are galvanized so that...

 I needed to shorten the cabinet the T-V sits in. It is/was just too big for our use anymore. So instead of buying a new T-V stand, I just shortened the one we have.. Nothing to loose but, everything to gain.

This is what it...

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https://www.change.org/petitions/united-states-of-america-make-recycling-the-norm-in-all-american-housesI am from canada, and where i live recycling is the norm.I am right now visiting us and i was horrified to find out many states...

Last Saturday night I went out to the porch to get rid of my recyclables. The bin is on the ground next to the porch. All I have to do is look over the porch railing & drop whatever into the bin.
This time when I dropped a bottle into...

I find myself recycling his words,Using them with others,Trying to make sure they're not just tossed.And yet there's a pang I feel;Each time I do it, I ask myself "why?"Then I tell myself " to make sure I realize there's nothing special...

I don't know if this statistic is typical, but as soon as I joined the group I glanced through the stories and found that 22 out of the 56 contributors had deleted their profiles - nearly 40%. Obviously the members are very...

Think eco-friendly and live eco-friendly

coffee grounds ,egg shells go into the garden I use wet newspapers & cardboard to stop weeds .
Plastic Peanut Butter jars are great for so many things ,from storing leftovers to containers for nails etc in Garage . I use the big ones...

It's now semi-enforced in the town in which I reside. I was told that all plastic and glass items can't just be tossed in the regular trash (what's left but paper?). I sorted my trash already anyway, but it's interesting to see that my...

I found this on my Face Book page. This is so true. What price have we paid in order to have more conveniences?   Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags...

OK this oak log will not see it's self turned into firewood any time soon. I needed/wanted a good solid surface to pound on. So I had the opportunity to pick up this oak log (live oak I think). This will make a nice foundation to beat...

Here is more of a reuse/re-purpose than recycle. You get yourself a old food waste disposal mount. They are stainless steel so they clean up real good. Sit the mount in a skillet and you can cook an egg inside of it and it will be the...

In the first photo I used some re-bar to fabricate a hanger for my bell out by the back gate. The second photo shows I used some solid square bar for a bell hanger out front, I put a twist on it to make it look fancy..

My start in recycling came with a paper drive at school when I was in first grade. It was wonderful to be involved in a community effort. It wasn't till 6th grade, though, that I jumped onboard wholeheartedly. I was called out of...

I took an AP Environmental Science class my senior year in high school which is when I really got started recycling. Since then I have started recycling everything humanly possible (that is if the recycling bin by my house accepts that...

It is unlawful to just "scrap out" used oil filters in their natural state. They have to be smashed so very little residue of oil is left. I service quite a few machines so I needed a way to recycle the used filters instead of just...