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Flush Puppies

Saturday, April 18th, 2009

Don’t you just love going for a walk with your dog? Don’t you just love
picking up after him, it’s a labor of love.

But what do you ‘do’ with it? Carry it home and put it in the trash
where it continues to ’smell’. There’s a new product that is the
solution to this dilemma. They’re called Flush Puppies!

Flush Puppies are a water soluble poopy bag made with a PVA film. It
dissolves in under a minute in water. You can dispose of them in any
toilet.

They’ve a website, flushpuppies.com, go check ‘em out.

(Not affiliated with Flush Puppies – just think it’s an innovative
product.)

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Compostable Chip Bags

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

Coming soon, to a grocer near you, SunChips in a biodegradable bag!  The new Sunchips bag will decompose in about 14 weeks. As an added bonus, a third of every bag is made with renewable, plant-based materials.

Their tag line? “You eat the chips. The earth eats the bag.”

Cute!  But more importantly, very environmentally friendly.  Now, no guilt when we enjoy our next bag of Sunchips.

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Recycling at a Garage Sale

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

Every year we have a garage sale, and every year, LOADS of stuff leaves this house never to return.

I’ve found that ‘if’ you have an item that should be recycled BUT you’re at a loss as to what to do with it, well, you can sell it at a garage sale!  That’s reusing! That’s recycling.

Case in point. I’ve a half full gallon container of Formica adhesive.  IF I were to formally recycle it, I’d have to wait until the city decided to have an all town recycle event.  When they do that, you can haul in paint, etc, for ‘proper’ recycling and people can sort thru the cans and take what they want.  BUT, WHEN is that day?

This can of adhesive is still viable, and I can’t just toss it. That wouldn’t be very environmentally friendly, but hey, I can stick a price tag of a quarter on it and it’ll be gone the first hour of the garage sale!

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