Eco-Friendly Tips (20 pics)
Turkish garbage collectors open a library for all of the books citizens discard in their trash
Instead of polluting the planet with confetti, hole punch leaves instead! Fully biodegradable.
My shopping bag has a printed holiday pattern so it can be reused as wrapping paper
Toothbrush with replaceable bristles so you don’t have to keep buying a new handle
Bulk frozen vegetables in Romania! First time I've seen something like this
Old Spice has plastic-free deodorant
My dad built a green house out of piles of random stuff he’s been saving in the “you never know when it will come in useful” pile. Old windows, bits of flooring, recycled straightened nails, and off cuts of steel roofing. Only had to spend $40 on 8 large bolts. So proud of him!
This is COMPLETELY out of season and I did it four years ago, but I work in a bakery in a health food store and this is how I evaded throwing away broken but otherwise perfectly fine cookies that didn't make the cut for platters. Injure bread men!
Picked up a used cardigan that turned out to look much better in the picture than in person, so I turned it back to yarn and crocheted the yarn into a cat bed (I didn't use a pattern).
You can grow loofahs (they are in the cucumber family), dry them and use them to wash dishes. 5 plants make enough for about 2 years in our house. Fully biodegradable when they're worn out.
Saw this image posted to a Facebook group. We need more coffee shops to do this.
A few weeks back I put a box of empty candle jars out on my verge for giveaway - I didn't want to throw them away - and today I found a lil box of candles in my doorstep with some of the jars refilled with lovely scented candles.
Sometimes junk store frames don’t come with hanging hardware. Tin can lids get the job done. Learned this trick from my high school art teacher.
This week I will hit my 8000th bag of trash cleaned up. I love my life, and I encourage others to try this.
