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.
Speaking of shit,naalala ko lang yung usapang noong ako’y paslit o musmos pa.Yung isa nagkwento,sabi ng ate ko ang ebs daw sa eroplano deretso labas daw yun,dahil may butas ito at nagiging fertilizer kaya naman daw mga tanim sa bundok eh matataba.Sabi ko naman,aaah kaya pala matataba puno sa likod bahay nila lola dahil sa eroplano na yan! hahaha musmos pa ako noon Pero alam mo,hanggang ngayon nasasaisip ko yan mga bagay na yan.Sana nga,pede ma recycle syet natin noh?
Mas grabe dito sa sausage land pagdating sa sorting ng mga basura.Mayroon pang plastik or mga bagay na pede i recycle,may bio,may pang papel,may pang bote (tapos ihalay mo rin yun according sa color nila at pinahuli, meyron din naman para sa mga bagay kung lito ka na or kung hindi sya belong doon sa iba.Minsan pag tinamad ako,lahat napupunta doon sa huli.Recently lang,nag labas ng ordinance ang mayor na i check lahat ng basurahan,kung hindi tama ang sorting,hindi ito ma pick up!
bat haba haba ng komento ko mabuti sana kung namimigay ka ng siomai!:p
dito rin, may bayad ang plastic bag kaya kanya kanyang bitbit ng basket o kaya ng reusable bags kapag sa grocery store. itong asawa ko nga isang araw nag shopping kami, aba, nagulat ako kasi nag yes sya nung tinanong kung gusto nya ng plastic bag. nung nakita nya sa resibo na binayaran nya yung plastic bag, muntik magwala ang mokong, di pala nya alam na may bayad, bat di ko raw sinabi, hehe. at sempre, hiwalay talaga ang basura dito, may pambabae may panlalaki, hmm… parang ganun ba.
sana matutunan na ng pinas ang tamang pagse-segregate ng basura para naman mas madali ang trabaho ng mga scavengers hehe. anyway, naalala ko, dun sa area ng tita ko sa california, pag hindi mo sinegregate ang basura mo, hindi siya kukunin ng basurero hanggang mabulok sa tapat ng bahay mo.
agree din ako, ang internet sobrang polluted na rin ng kung ano-ano. i think depende na lang sa atin kung alin ang pipiliin natin at alin ang idi-disregard.
OK, Don´t use plastig bags any more, but do you really think that pornography is pornography rubbish?
this is a great post! very sueful and informative. I recycled colored papers. pero sometimes parang basura na ang lugar natin sa kakaipon. yung mga softdrink cans at yung mineral water plastic bottle, sini-separate ko at binibigay sa basurero.
Tama ka marami ang magagawa natin sa recycle. one of the towns here in iloilo, started to practice of non-use of plastic bags. Karaniwan kasi sa atin(pati ako) nagpaka-easy lang palagi. hehehe.
thanks for sharing informative ideas!
nice idea on the card holder. i think im going to try doing one. hehehe.
sorry, useful pala. sorry. it’s not sueful but useful
thanks for sharing ur ideas. It’s serve as an eye-opener. It’s like mapaisip ka at sabihing oo nga no.
di ko ata nakayanan yung last part that our shit can be soon recycled. wehehe … naalala ko yung kain natin a mcdo .. walang straw day…
…thousands of vinyl records and you threw them away…waaaahhh…SAYANG!!!!
they’re collector’s items these days. soem people are buying it here for like 1000P each…that could have been millions..sayang!
i think they do recycle human wastes now in bigger city like LA. although, they use it mostly for fertilizers on lawns and crops to feed animals….then who eats the animals? us, human. it is recycling, alright, huh?
our nearby lake where i live–the water is a recycled waste. it is a beautiful lake planted with all kinds of fish. it must be a good water because fish don’t thrive in polluted environment. in fact, i have eaten fish caught there before. i just didn’t think about the origin of the water while i was eating the crispy fried fish.
I recycle in real life, but I’ve never heard of Internet recycle, is there such thing?
And speaking of side bar, are those Ads on yours’? Just curious.
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