Hmm, very tempted to renovate these free Hans Wegner style Mid-Century Modern chairs (Craigslist) -- if I had access to my workshop. Though, no need for dining chairs. Pricey if in good condition. Dining chairs tend to be easy to reupholster, too.. #refurbish#recycle#furniture
Discovered last week that you can buy 18650 power bank cases and BMS for £8. I matched up some salvaged cells and hey presto BIG powerbank! #reuse#recycle
Fancypants cocktail party tonight for a friend's 60th. Not really my thing but anyhooo... we are hurling clothes around the house in an attempt to find suitable outfits.
Meanwhile....
Have you been to Dirty Jane's??! Crikey.. wharehouse of retro delights. Found a cute little silver and bakelite paté knife for the birthday girl. #Canberra#recycle
Yesterday I found a piece laminate in my basement and decided to build 🛠️ a small box for my stuff. For the box I used only parts I already had ♻️. It's a good project for beginners 👍.
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have achieved a 98% water recovery rate in a breakthrough achieved by a method that might make the faint of heart slightly squeamish: they hit peak astronaut pee recycling....
Danish artist and climate activist Thomas Dambo spent his summer in the US creating gigantic troll-like creatures across the country out of recycled materials. Five are in Western Washington where he worked with Indigenous tribes and artist John Halliday to make sure his work respected their traditions.
Fix it instead of tossing it. Check for Repair Cafes in your city. You can get small appliances and the like like repaired, usually for free. Also, organizers are always on the lookout for volunteers. It's also a place where you can learn to fix things. #reuse#recycle#repair https://repaircafetoronto.ca/
RANT about selling used items… From recent experience, some “thrifters” don’t actually read your ad. Then they want you to discount your (already crazily cheap) items by 50% AND deliver them. Plus they can’t read basic instructions about how / where to meet! PEOPLE: if the ad says “pick up only” what do you think that means? #recycle#reuse#rant
Supercapacitors are charged like a battery but release their energy more rapidly – and some of their components can now be built from old plastic bottles
Wool can be made without killing animals. I think we need to go back to using bamboo, wood and wool and less synthetics. But most of all, make furniture and rugs that last -- so generation after generation can use them!
Even after an install, a project’s furnishings and finishes can leach harmful chemicals into the air for years through a process called off-gassing. Here’s how you can combat it.
by Audrey Gray
"'Okay, I want to tell you about some things,' she recalls telling her client, going on to carefully explain the dangers inherent in both flooring choices—primarily the health impacts of chemical inhalants. Not only would these #chemicals flood a home during the installation of new #carpet or #vinyl planks, but they would continue to gradually leach into the air for years to come—a more subtle (but dangerous) process referred to as off-gassing. Thompson didn’t want her client’s family exposed to a vapor stew of chemicals every day, least of all in the yoga space, where the whole point was to breathe deeply while near the floor.
"She offered her client some carefully sourced options such as an all-wool carpet with a natural #rubber pad, and advocated for solid, #sustainably sourced wood downstairs instead of a composite of plastics. 'I thought she’d be excited,' Thompson says. 'But because of her beliefs about animal rights, I learned that wool wasn’t acceptable to her…and there were price point issues too. I thought, ‘Wow, this is a whole new level I hadn’t encountered.’”
"Welcome to what materials experts call 'one of the most complicated issues in health and wellness,' the murky and unregulated (at least in the U.S.—Europe is much stricter) relationships humans have with thousands of airborne #toxins emanating from our building materials, #furnishings, #CleaningProducts, #CarInteriors, #iPads, and even #candles.
"'Nobody’s telling you what is coming from all those vapors mixing in the air,' says Jillian Pritchard Cooke, the founder of Wellness Within Your Walls, an education consultancy focused on dramatically reducing the dangers of off-gassing in the built environment. 'It’s up to us to understand the individual effects each chemical can have on your #NervousSystem, your #lungs, and your cellular makeup. We need to be doing right by our clients.'
"Designers have, of course, been aware of the dangers of volatile organic compounds (#VOCs) for a long time, and have helped influence some wins in the marketplace, like the rising popularity of low- or no-VOC paints and the 2015 ban Home Depot and Lowe’s instituted in 2015 on toxic #phthalates (a class of industrial chemicals that help make plastic bendy) in flooring.
"But the problem endures, and unfortunately, many of the worst effects of VOCs—showing up in health conditions—accumulate over long periods of time.
"One of the best arguments for incorporating #vintage pieces in design, apart from saving space in landfills and decreasing carbon emissions, is that they are far safer from an off-gassing perspective. #Recycling building materials (for instance, saving the doors during a retrofit) helps too."
#Sunnyvale#sfba residents: where the heck do you go to #recycle plastic shapping bags? The recycling bin says they don’t accept them. I know Target and other department/grocery stores have receptacles, but they are often full and I don’t want to bring a bunch of bags just to have to put them back in the car.
Does the Sunnyvale Smart recycling center take them?
Craft Project! I have a beloved Kobo Libra H2O. It has a proprietary case covered in a blue fake leather that began to flake. I took it off and for a while went with the cloth underneath. But that was beginning to fray and so I decided to fix it with my ninja bookmaking skills. Probably should have used a thinner cloth for the magnet but it looks beautiful!
I have a lot of plants 🍃. So I decided to build a small shelf for them 📐. This is my result from last weekend 🛠️. I used only "old" materials that I already had.
NASA just recycled 98% of all astronaut pee and sweat on the ISS (engineers are thrilled) (68k.news)
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have achieved a 98% water recovery rate in a breakthrough achieved by a method that might make the faint of heart slightly squeamish: they hit peak astronaut pee recycling....
Plastic bottles can be recycled into energy-storing supercapacitors (archive.is)
Supercapacitors are charged like a battery but release their energy more rapidly – and some of their components can now be built from old plastic bottles