Tag Archives: recycle
Howcast video of fridge magnet project
Here’s the HowCast based on my Instructable project involving recycling fridge magnets.
Recycled back scratcher
I don’t care who you are — you never get enough back scratching. When i take apart things i try to come up with ways to reuse the parts. I made a back scratcher out of a stainless rod from an inkjet printer or flatbed scanner and the needle plate from a sewing machine. I …
Checked bags full of copper
Checked bags full of copper Originally uploaded by zieak Yesterday afternoon Kevin and I stripped wire and piled up the copper and brass that i’ve been collecting. We loaded two bags using the bathroom scale to make sure we didn’t have over 50 pounds in either. You can check two bags and carry on one …
Recrafted column
My projects on DIYlife have become a regular column called Recrafted. Looks like i need to get my last name straightened out! I have lots of ideas for projects and now have the incentive to keep cracking at them!
Contacting Costco and Greensight electronics recycling
I have been trying to send in a laptop (that i bought at Costco a number of years ago) to the Costco and Greensight electronics recycling program that i mentioned previously. (If you want to send something in and are not a Costco member let me know – we can work something out!) I received …
How we’ll save a few dollars a year
We had no idea that our local grocery store gave two cents credit for each shopping bag you bring of your own. Cena just found out when she brought our recycled cat food bags turned giant industrial strength shopping bags to the store. If we were to shop every week and use 10 bags that …
Garbage can from old tires
While in Phnom Penh, Cambodia we saw these kettle-like garbage cans that upon closer inspection were actually pieces from rubber tires. Most areas in Vietnam and Cambodia did not even have public garbage cans – trash was left right on the street and picked up by sanitation crews in the evenings.
Money for aging electronics
One thing i have learned about being on top of technology is that you leave behind you a wake of discarded items that just are not good enough anymore. I have used the following PDAs… Visor Deluxe, Visor Prism, Treo 600, Treo 650, Treo 680. My cell phone ancestry merges into my PDA lineage like …
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