One man’s trash is another man’s treasure
Anya Hindmarch, originally uploaded by: platinumblondelife
+ Anya’s bag was designed to encourage people to use less plastic bags and encourage sustanibility. The designer made the bag in cooperation with ‘we are what we do‘ and acvitist organization geared towards inspiring people to use everyday actions to change the world. See more Anya Hindmarch in Hong Kong.
The word “recycling” does not simply mean collecting garbage anymore. With the combination of new technology and innovative ideas, Hong Kong’s environmental industry has carried out successfully in recycling waste materials into high value usable materials. Like recently, the use of less plastic bag in most grocery stores have been already introduced. Fewer plastic bags means savings for the supermarket, and good news for the environment.
At work, they do encourage us to re-use every little piece of papers. Even the boss would argue about throwing a yellow-post it paper into the trashbins. And okay, I must admit that I am not always diligent about recycling. When I drain the last bit of my Coke from the can, my natural tendency is to toss the can into the trashbin.
100 [re]design, originally uploaded by: Kate A
My mother used to say, “mahilig kang magtapon, kahit yung kunting peanut butter sa garapon ay pwede pang kutsilyuhin at itapal sa pandesal” (you can still use a knife with one last scoop of the peanut butter into your bread). Ever wonder that the juice is worth all the squeeze? I remember one Sunday afternoon, a group of Pinoys were having “beer drinking” under a bridge, this local lady granny who collect empty cans would watch so close enough because she sell it somewhere just to feed her hungry mouth.
When I started going online, I did crazy stuff in the internet. I subscribes to many sites that gives me a laugh. Imagine how many of us pollutes the entire World Wide Web? Imagine how many times we post photos? Imagine how many of us blog every nanoseconds? Do you ever wonder how polluted the internet is with pornography? Imagine how many word counts your entry has so that search engines crawl into our sites? How many of us abuse the use of our sidebars with too many junks? How often do we use the “delete” button so that the rubbish goes into the right place, called “Trash”? Try deleting something unuseful in your machine, it’ll pretty much tells you, “Well, done”!
Card Holder, originally uploaded by:re-Design
+ There is nothing like the combination of words retro and active to describe the activities of Danit and Yinnon Simhi, the couple operates under the name of Groovy.
When I was younger, people were not interested about recycling their rubbish. In HK, every other night, a rubbish collector in my flat would occasionally knock on my door telling me to separate my rubbish from papers and cans. It isn’t that I’ve had a huge pile of rubbish but I was never the “wiser” kind of guy because I was not even interested into recycling. How many clothes do we have? How often do we buy shoes even if we had a dozen more in our closet? Ok, that’s another thing, I’m not giving away anything from my closet – at least for now I’m not tired with my old pair of jeans.
Maybe sooner or later, even our ’shits’ can be recycle, we never know. Ask Jack Johnson. He sings his soul right fine with “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle”. It’s simple, let’s have a little fun with recycling. Kick up your heels and smile. Drum your fingers enjoy the beat and then take action.
Album: Sing-A-Longs Lullaby | Song: The 3 R’s OST: Curious George
Artist: Jack Johnson – Jack Johnson is a Hawaii-born singer-songwriter, accomplished professional surfer, and filmmaker who has achieved commercial success and a dedicated following since he first appeared on G. Love. Read More.
