A Unique Birthday Present

Remember that Lego Turkey worth an hour's wait? Well, I decided that it would make a nice gift! I "recycled" a plastic container and some Volcom stickers along the way. Finally, I added some cranes for a nice touch. Genuine!

Minecraft: Please Recycle!

This is a friendly reminder expressed through Minecraft to keep up the eco-efforts! Go green!

Recycling bin!

Minecraft recycling facility with recycled glass moving down the line. Did you know that glass and metal can be recycled again and again far more times than paper and plastic? 

Post Halloween Pumpkin "Recycling"

It's been half a week since Halloween... What are you going to do with that pumpkin? Especially if you carved one out, they're not going to last more than another week.

Here's an article by ehow.com on five ways to put your old, saggy pumpkin from Halloween to good use.

http://www.ehow.com/how_4500385_recycle-pumpkins.html

Two Fun Videos (Cereal Box Lifecycle) (Dreams of Flight)

The company GE (General Electric) reviews possible advancements in aviation technology. Complementary with a dash of kids' side comments and their craziest imagination.





Keep on smelling!

Club Penguin Recycling Center

I thought this recycling center they have on Club Penguin is pretty neat! If you throw a snowball, it turns into recyclable waste. (This place is located near the mines)

Terracycle: the Awesomeness of Upcycling

This company is all about going green, while at the same time, making green. Founded initially by selling worm poop as fertilizer in a reused bottle, they have grown much more than anyone ever imagined. Today they're making deals with Walmart, Target, Home Depot, and the big guys.

They've been using this method (started in 2007) called Sponsored Waste Upcycling.

Capri Sun, Honest Kids, Frito Lay, Huggies, Paper Mate, and many others pay shipping and offer rewards to individual organizations (schools, clubs, teams, and the like) to collect and send in typically un-recyclable waste to Terracycle to be recycled, or "upcycled" into cool and exotic new products such as backpacks made from juice pouches, kites out of Oreo wrappers, and waste bins created by pelletizing chip bags.

Cool, huh? I like to call them "the second line of defense" for keeping rubbish out of the landfills.

You can join a Terracycle Brigade yourself at terracycle.net, while at the same donating to a charity or school of your own choice!

Reusing Newspaper as Wrapping Paper

"Why waste wrapping paper when you can use the Sunday Comics?"

Game: Windfall

Since today is Earth Day, I wanted to share this game I found from addictinggames.com. It's called Windfall. The scenario if the game is to build wind turbines to help the world go green. Watch out, though- citizens of the area are very picky, so be selective as to where you place the wind turbines. Try it out for yourself! :)

SunChips Noisy Bag

Everyone has been talking about the world's first compostable bag--but not because of its less impact on the environment. People complain that this bag is just too noisy. I bought one, and yes, it is noisy. But I didn't really care. I was actually more glad that at least someone finally decided to change on the environment, although SunChips have already been doing their part using solar energy at their factories.

Recycling Entry

Credit for this image goes to Wikipedia

Hello, Legoman here. On a TV channel, a lady was talking about recycling. She said that there are three main things in our life that are in a cycle. One, you see an ad on TV that makes you interested in buying it. Two, you buy the item you saw on TV. Three, you work hard to pay the item off. Then the cycle starts again. After your hard day at work, you relax on your couch and watch some TV. You see an ad with something you like, and you go to the store to buy it. The cycle keeps going on. How does this have anything to do with recycling? Well, since this cycle keeps going on, your house gets filled up with items that you are no longer interested in. But, what happens to the items you are no longer interested in? There is one answer to that: Throwing it out. All that junk you don't use anymore gets sent to a landfill, where it gets buried. In a result, all those people out in the world would also dump their junk at a landfill. What a lot of junk! That is why you shouldn't waste your stuff and "hand me downs" help the Earth. Please recycle!

Poll Results 5

The poll results for the recycling poll are:

Wow! I didn't know so many people recycled plastic!

Elephant Poo-Poo Paper

Have you heard of paper made from elephant poop? Well, now you have!

 During the UCLA book fair (Cora mentioned previously), I happened to venture into the university store.
I found a paper packet made from elephant poo. No need to worry; I sniffed it, and it turns out to be odorless. According to the package, they extract the fiber from the feces to create environmentally-friendly paper. I suppose that brings new meaning to recycle!

The organization is all for environmentalism, donating a portion of the profits to help save the elephants!

Official website: http://www.poopoopaper.com/index.html

Earth Day!!!

Happy Earth Day people of the earth! Now, you probably have already seen people doing something for Earth Day. Maybe, walking to school, turning most of the lights off, all that stuff. Although, we should be doing that everyday. Just because it's Earth Day doesn't mean we should do all that good stuff now, we should do it all the time. So reduce, reuse, and recycle! Cora fan here saying,"Keep on smelling!"