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Carless in Victoria 2

Posted in Plastic Recycle by Leona
Feb 13 2010
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On the buses: another great ride with a thoughtful driver - this one giving precise directions to a confused tourist, waiting for a late running passenger and slowing down approaching each stop (some bus drivers think they are in a rally - or have I groused about that already?).

Bus travel can be travelling theatre:

- A young guy telling his friend and consequently the entire bus, the difficulties and successes in his lovelife at college - thankfully without the addition of procreative descriptors.

- Man gets  up and offers his seat to woman, she refuses - yowzers!

- Bus driver calling out the name of a stop and every uni student saying “thank you” as they alight.  I wonder if the drivers get bored with saying “you’re welcome, every time”?

There are people going to work, shopping, travelling (suitcase in hand to transfer to the Ferry/ Airport buses); everyone transported in every way for the cost of a cup of coffee.

Recycled Plastic

Posted in Plastic Recycle by Leona
Nov 10 2009
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vase covers from recycled plasticPlastic bags recycled, warm the cockles of my heart (where does that phrase come from anyway? From my not so extensive word search, this phrase is supposed to have been in use since the 17th century and has to do with the heart shape of a cockle - which is a delicious little bivalve).

Anyway, back to the vases - they are made with coloured plastic bags which are cut up or torn into their cool designs.  A glass jam jar fits inside to hold the flowers.  If the jam jar is tall enough this can become a T light cover…the light flickers through the plastic cover.

If you are a designer, artisan, small business and you use recycled materials, please contact us so we can show your products and a link to your website or location.

Bioneers, Plastics & Recycled CO2

Posted in Plastic Recycle by Leona
Oct 10 2009
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Listening to a Bioneers talk on Village900 radio we hear about a company, Novomer, that has discovered how to make plastics from CO2 greenhouse gas - recycled CO2.  How amazing is that!  That’s the sort of thing that ‘Nature’ evolves: CO2 is used by plants to make food - a ‘poison’ recycled.  The question being: is this plastic useable in the areas that we actually need plastics - medicine for one (artificial limbs, heart valves, hip joints)?  Biodegradeable plastic will be of no use in plastic that is meant to last a lifetime.

BC Womens Show

Posted in Craft Fairs & Markets, Eco Aware, Plastic Recycle by Leona
Oct 09 2009
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Spent the last weekend at the BC Womens Show at the Pearkes Centre.  It was way too nice out for people to be stuck indoors.  The few that did attend were all very interested in products made from recycled materials (known in the ‘trade’ as ‘recyclates’).  Surprise and delight being the main reactions - yes, recycled can be elegant, trendy and sophisticated.

My Bokashi composter is working a treat. If it’s the 2nd Saturday this week then it must be recycling day down at the Fernwood Community - that’s for my bagsT-light/Vase of plastic bags and tetra packs (Recycle2shop sells Christmas ornaments made from those Tetra Packs).  These pretty vases/T-light covers are remade from coloured recycled plastic bags for sale on our ebay store.

Talk about plastic bags - the big controversy in the recycling world at the moment is all about biodegradeable plastic.  Unfortunately, biodegradeable bags cannot be recycled into anything and they contaminate plastic recyclates making them unuseable.  ‘Biodegradeable’ only breaks down if exposed to oxygen and our landfills are not known for their oxygen content.  Landfills are anaerobic - that’s why they produce the greenhouse gas, methane.  So the answer to plastic bags contaminating the earth is not to try to solve the problem by using a substitute plastic.  Brown paper is at least compostable.  We need lateral thinkers to solve this conundrum.

Kids ReDesign via UK

Posted in Eco Aware, Plastic Recycle by Leona
Sep 29 2009
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[re]design is a social enterprise based in the UK for “designers who don’t want to make landfill”.  Their latest show is called Doing It For The Kids (a slide show) and is described as sustainable play design.  They have striking images of ‘toys’  recycled toys make great gifts, all made from recycled materials.  We are looking for Canadian designers to feature on our website…if you are or know of one, please contact us with their information.

Tagged as: design, kids toys, landfill, recycled, recycled gifts, recycled toys

Composting Everything

Posted in Craft Fairs & Markets, Eco Aware, Plastic Recycle by Leona
Sep 18 2009
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Anyone with a eco friendly garden/bit of earth can compost everything out of the kitchen…bread, bones, fat, protein, in fact all the leftovers that cannot go into green composters.

All you need is the Bokachi system:    The system needs a bran mix invented by the Japanese - basically bran and molasses with the magic ingredient - micro-organisms; these ferment the kitchen scraps in any plastic container (recycled, of course).  There is no smell and once your container is full - leave for 2 weeks and then deposit in your compost or dig into the ground.

More details available soon on our ‘why recycle’ pages.

Leona is off to the mainland for a conference - carpooling, naturally.

Tagged as: Bokashi, carpooling, compost, eco friendly garden, green, recycle

Sunday At The Market

Posted in Plastic Recycle, Recycled Wood by Leona
Sep 15 2009
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Waterproof Baby Fleece Blanket and Cushion Made From Recycled Plastic

Recycle2shop has been at the Government Street Market in Victoria every Sunday in the summer and sadly we only have 2 more market days to go.  People are fascinated by all our ‘upcycled’ products and totally supportive of recycling.  Our fleece (made from recycled plastic bottles) products elicit amazement and “how does that work?”  We talk recycling - hey,  people are actually giving me permission to rabbit on about the wonders of recycling.

Recycle2shop went to UVIC

Yes, we took the message to GreenStart at UVic, Wednesday and Thursday during their first week of classes.  They were all too poor after buying books to spend on extras so it was all about the message.  Met a passionate recycler from CRD who is engaged in wood recycling (as opposed to burning) and more on that in weeks to come.  If you would like to add your views to the  CRD proposal you have until September 18th.

Tagged as: CRD, recycle2shop, recycled fleece, recycled plastic, recycled plastic bottles, recycler, recycling, sunday market, upcycled, upcycled products, UVic, Victoria, wood recycling

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