If you want to keep your candle making kind to the planet, there are plenty of sustainable swaps to consider. Choose soy or beeswax instead of paraffin, opt for organic essential oils instead of synthetic fragr
One big use we didn't talk about last section was gold's role as a form of currency. You can read much more inHow Currency Works, but it's worth mentioning here because gold and money are practically synonymous. Gold coins have been around for centuries, probably since King Croesus, the...
Second, Styrofoam cups are difficult to clean up. Styrofoam often escapes waste collection systems and accumulates on land and in water because it is easily windblown. Pieces of Styrofoam show up in our parks, forests, beaches, oceans, and rivers as plastic debris. For instance, the San Diego...
How Much Does Polyester Fabric Cost? The current price of raw polyester fiber is approximately $1 per pound, but this price rises and falls on a daily bases. Even accounting for minor fluctuations, polyester remains one of the most inexpensive textile products in the world, and this factor ...
Effective demand shows how much would be bought (i.e. how much people can afford to buy and would actually buy) at any given price. It does not mean how much people would like to buy if they had an endless amount of money. Effective demand is demand supported by...
they're not really. It's all plastic. It's all going to break down all the same. And there's farmers in your per saying, we can't do this anymore. There's just too much plastic in this compost, too much microplastic and too much macroplastic, some of the bigger pieces. We are...
it’s upsetting to hear about plastic being lumped in with toxic waste. But the poisonous parallel is apt. When it comes to plastic, recycling is a misnomer. “They really sold people on the idea that plastics can be recycled because there’s a fraction of them that are,” says Puckett...
Eco-friendly paper is a unique type of paper that contains a small carbon footprint. Unlike regular paper, it has little impact on the environment. The eco-friendly paper has two types. One is FSC paper and the other is recycled paper. ...
The purple donation bag from FlyLady is also good! Of course it can also be filled up fast. Lol. Pretty strong too. I know I've carried it with too much weight in it. Haven't torn the handle yet! (I TRY to make it lighter. Lol) trunk by: Iris I like the idea of puttin...
we’ve moved from one source to another because the new one was cheaper and more powerful. When we stopped burning so much wood and started using more coal, for example, it was because we could get a lot more heat and light from a pound of coal than from a pound of wood. Or take...