Posts Tagged ‘green earth’

Clever Recycling at Home

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010 by Lena

Humans need to start being aware of how much harm some types of waste can do to the environment.  If we do not start acting now, then we are at risk of contaminating our drinking water and damaging our health and societies.  It is a vicious cycle.

One way to do this is to recycle some of our waste products.  Stuff like glass jars and glass bottles can be easily re-used as containers for something else.  If you prefer to recycle with a bit more challenge, however, there are ways to completely transform trash into something else entirely. Here are two recipes on home recycling.

Home Recycled Paper

Do you buy newspapers regularly?  Then you can make beautiful recycled paper out of these, with the use of tools you can easily find at home.

recycled paper product

  1. You will need a fly screen, wooden frame (or suitable alternatives), used papers/newspapers, water, cloth, blender and some bleach or coloring if desired.
  2. First, you will need to make a mold using a fly screen by stapling it to a wooden frame.
  3. Soak some torn up pieces of newspaper in hot water for around half an hour.
  4. Using a blender, blend the water and paper up until it becomes mushy.  Add some bleach to whiten the color of the mush or add some coloring or small amounts of flowers to decorate it and blend again.
  5. Pour the pulp into a basin of water, making sure the proportion is at 1 part pulp and 4 parts water, and stir.
  6. Dip the fly screen mold into the pulp water mix and scoop the floating particles out of the water.  Make sure that the particles pieces are evenly spread on the mold.
  7. Meanwhile, stack some newspapers and spread a piece of cloth on top of it. This will make a drying pad.
  8. When all the water has been drained out of the fly screen mold, flip the mold to lay the pulp onto the drying pad.  The pulp should be able to separate itself from the mold
  9. Allow the pulp to air dry for some time.  When it is dry, run an iron over the recycled paper to smoothen it out – and you’re done!

Home Made Eco Soap

Do you know what to do with your used cooking oil? Do not pour it down the drain, as it will clog your pipes.  Instead, make soap out of them!  Here’s how to do it.

used cooking oil as soap

  1. You will need used cooking oil, a measuring cup, a balance scale, some caustic soda, some clothes softener, protective glasses, a protective mask and rubber gloves.
  2. For every liter of used oil, use 200 grams caustic soda, 40mm of softener and 400mm of warm water.  Make sure that you filter out all the bits of food from the oil before you proceed.
  3. Dissolve the caustic soda in the water while wearing your protective gears, as this mixture will release toxic gases. Be careful when doing this. Also dissolve the soda into the water instead of pouring water over the soda.
  4. Add the oil to mixture from step 3 and stir for 15 minutes with a spoon.
  5. The softener is then added so give the mixture its fragrance.  For some variants, you could add in essential oils and bits of flowers petals for fragrances
  6. Pour this final mixture into different containers such as old tin cans or small plastic containers to mold the soap.
  7. The mixture will turn white in two days. Let the soap stands for two more weeks before using it.

Save our Earth

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009 by macinger84

If you think, you are not doing adequate efforts for the environment by changing your incandescent light bulbs with LED or CFL lights and composting your kitchen waste, perhaps you are ready to make a deeper assurance to environmental stewardship.

Some of these stratagems might seem a little essential, but they are among the most important actions you can take to shield and conserve Earth’s environment.

Plan well
overpopulationOverpopulation is debatably the world’s most severe environmental problem, as it intensifies all of the other problems. The worldwide population was 3 billion in 1959 and increased to 6 billion in 1999, a raise of 100 percent in 40 years. According to existing projections, the global population will spread out to 9 billion by 2040.Earth is a closed system with restricted resources. As the global population grows, our possessions must elongate to serve more and more populace. In the future, that will no longer be feasible. Finally, we need to overturn this growth tendency by slowly but surely bringing the human being population of our planet back downward to a more controllable size. This means more citizens must decide to have fewer kids. This might sound easy on the surface, but the constrain to reproduce is elementary in all genus and the verdict to limit or give up the experience is an arousing, cultural or spiritual one for many people.

Use Less Water—and Keep It Clean

reduce reuse recycle water

Unsullied, clean water is important to life—no one can survive long without it and yet it is one of the endangered and most scarce resources on our increasingly brittle planet.
Water envelops more than 70 percent of the Earth’s facade, but most of it is salt water. Freshwater supplies are much more confined, and at present one third of the world’s citizens lack right to use the clean drinking water. In the United Nations, 95 percent of the metropolis worldwide still plunks raw trash into their water supplies. Predictably, 80 percent of all sickness and ailments in budding countries can be linked to unhygienic water.

Eat sensibly
Eating sensibly also means consuming less meat and less animal products for example dairy products and eggs, or possibly none at all. It is an issue of good stewardship of our limited resources.

Renewable_EnergyPreserve Energy—and move on to Renewable Energy

Walk, or use public transportation more than your own vehicles. Not only will you be in good health and help to safeguard valuable energy resources, you will also hoard money. As per the study by the American Public Transportation Association, people that use public haulage can lessen their domestic expenses by $6,200 per annum, more than the standard U.S. household spends on foodstuff each year.

Conserve and Go Green
conserve-energyThere are many other ways you can save energy—like turning lights off and unplugging your electrical appliances when you are not using them, not overcooling or overheating, your office and home. One way to initiate is to get a free energy inspection from your local utility. Choose renewable energy rather than fossil fuels. For instance, many civic utilities now offer green energy options so that you may get all or at least some of your electricity from solar, wind, or other renewable sources of energy.

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