Tag: Recycle

  • Recycling Sweats From The Already Recycled

    Recycling Sweats From The Already Recycled

    The other day I was sorting out clothes for the Canadian Diabetes Association’s clothing pickup, when I came across recycled, and then again recycled, sweat shirts. Some people save egg cartons, bottles, margarine containers, and old tins, (the list is endless) for recycling. These items could be saved for themselves; curbside recycling pickup; or for…

  • Disruptive Composite Materials Developed Via Vancouver Company & University Of British Columbia

    Disruptive Composite Materials Developed Via Vancouver Company & University Of British Columbia

    Up coming next generation of polymer materials creates more durable and recycle-ready composites ALUULA Composites is collaborating with the University of British Columbia (UBC) Composite Research Network to develop world-first recycling applications for high-performance, UHMWPE-based composite materials. The new material has been recently featured in Air&Cosmos, Composites World, Innovation in Textiles, and Plastics Today. “When we first revealed our work…

  • Renewable Energy Outlook for 2040 Includes Cancelling Your Print Newspapers

    Renewable Energy Outlook for 2040 Includes Cancelling Your Print Newspapers

    Hey Silo readers! This infographic courtesy of FuelFighterUK demonstrates how production could look in 2040 and what is being done to make our world a greener place. The infographic covers the projected worldwide growth in energy demand, what is being invested to change the renewable outlook and some awesome eco-friendly innovations that have been made…

  • New ‘Duct Tape DIY Book’ is Taking Crafting and Fashion World by Storm

    New ‘Duct Tape DIY Book’ is Taking Crafting and Fashion World by Storm

    From the author of the #1 best-sellers, Tape It & Make It, Tape It & Make More and Tape It & Wear It comes the fourth book in this revolutionary “duct tape craft series:” Duct Tape Bags: 40 Projects for Totes, Clutches, Messenger Bags, and Bowlers (Clarkson Potter, July 2016). With the upcoming release of…

  • Harvesting Wild Leeks

    Harvesting Wild Leeks

    It’s coq-a-leeky time. For the past several years my friend House and I go out to our secret spot in a nearby woods and harvest wild leeks. They grow three quarters of the way down a steep hill so the element of  danger grows stronger every year with aging limbs.  Let me tell you,  it’s…

  • Being Green Is Not Impossible

    Being Green Is Not Impossible

    When I took my boyfriend to see a new Muppet movie, he had never seen anything by the Muppets before, and being a dedicated fan since early childhood, I felt it my right and honorable duty to share the mahna-mahna’s with him. Needless to say, it was a fantastic and heart-felt show that we both…