Once of the 3 R's, Reuse is to use an item more than once. This includes conventional reuse where the item is used again for the same function, and new-life reuse where it is used for a new function. By taking useful products and exchanging them, without reprocessing, reuse help us save time, money, energy and resources. In broader economic terms, reuse offers quality products to people and organizations with limited means, while generating jobs and business activity that contribute to the economy. It can also turn unwanted items into great, useful and beautiful alternatives.
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| Giant livestock farms, which can house hundreds of thousands of pigs, chickens, or cows, produce vast amounts of waste,- often generating the waste equivalent of a small city. Pollution from livestock farms seriously threatens humans, fish and ecosystems. However, animal waste should be considered a valuable resource which, when managed properly, can reduce the need for commercial fertilizer or produce other benefits for man.
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| Anyone who has had a child in high school, one that goes to proms and formal affairs, knows how expensive these activities can be. The costs involved have become so high some families cannot afford for their daughter or son to attend. Fortunately, there are organizations and volunteers across America that collect gently used dresses, gowns, and formal attire and make them available for free to kids who otherwise might not be able to go to their proms.
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| ‘Going green’ has been taken to new heights with the creation of eco-friendly toys. These trendy items are safer for the environment and kids, and as a result, are become increasingly popular. Companies are taking a greener approach to appeal to environmentally conscious customers by launching eco-friendly toys.
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| According to knowledgeable people who delved into streetlight details, public lighting uses up to 12 percent of the fossil fuel produced in the world. In Fairbanks, Alaska, where it’s dark half the year, street lighting accounts for 60 percent of the city’s electricity bill!
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| There is a huge amount of existing buildings not in used anymore, and we need to be smarter about disposing of them. Particularly if you look at the older structures, they are wonderful from a design perspective. With high floor-to-floor ceiling heights that allow us to bring in a lot of natural daylight, allowing for good circulation systems, optimizing how you set up your lighting systems. And of course, the buildings themselves are pretty strong, sturdy buildings. They've been around so long and they have a lot of materials in them that you take advantage of.
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| If we take a look at all of the people walking around in the streets of urban centers today, and we think about all of that expended energy, the possibility of harnessing it is exciting. There could be an interface between our feet and the surface we’re stepping on. It could absorb that movement to generate electricity for the overhead lights and to heat up the coffee.
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| The local food movement in which sustainable food production, processing, distribution, and consumption is integrated to enhance the economic, environmental and social health of a particular place and is considered to be a part of a broader sustainability movement. Urban farming — the art of growing vegetables in cities has become increasingly trendy in recent years, led by health-conscious foodies coveting just-picked produce, as well as hipsters who dig the roll-your-own vibe.
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| Jeans are America's most used piece of clothing. Some people wear them until they'e truly unwearable. The more faded and more holes, the more they loves them. But there comes a time when these items just become unwearable. Denim is a prime fabric for recycling and there are many creative ways to recycle blue or any color jeans, make everything from backpacks to book covers.
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| Oil spills happen when people make mistakes or are careless and cause an oil tanker to leak oil into the ocean. These spills are usually dispersed but not cleaned up with detergents which makes oil settle to the bottom. Oils that are denser than water, such as Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), can be more difficult to clean as they make the seabed toxic.
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| The spare change jingling in your pocket can benefit the environment. ‘Change for the Environment’ is a three-day Canadian initiative in Toronto, Belleville, and Quinte West, Canada that asks residents to donate their spare change, every bit of it will be spent on the environment.
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| Streetlights aren't really necessary when there's a full moon out, with it bouncing all that sunlight down at us and everything. But your average streetlight isn't smart enough to know when it isn't needed, so it sits there, dumbly shining away for no real reason. There's a new concept for these lights that could respond to the waxing and waning of the moon throughout the month. The lamps would dim and brighten as the moon cycles through its phases. In other words, on clear nights at full moon, these lights might even turn off completely.
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| Traditionally made shoes can have a high environmental cost. Not only do they consume a lot of virgin materials, which use many resources to grow and manufacture but they are also difficult to recycle. A pair of athletic shoes tossed into the landfill may linger for up to 1,000 years before breaking down, so recycling them makes really good sense. Recycling sneakers might sound a little weird, but it wasn't so long ago that throwing them to the trash was only thing to do with them.
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