Are you looking for a unique and eco friendly tile? Recycled glass can be an absolutely stunning choice in materials.
The tiles are made from post-consumer and/or post-industrial sources. Glass tiles are a durable, versatile and gorgeous alternative to other tile options.
Just look at this fabulous shower stall as featured on Eco-Friendly Flooring’s website. It doesn’t matter if you have conservative taste or if you lean toward a more eclectic style – glass tile can accomodate your taste in decor.
According to Global Research Corporation, it sure can. Through microwave technology they have created a machine (The Hawk 10) that takes plastics and converts part of the hydrocarbons that they consist of, breaking them down into deisel oil and gas! Wow, after my very sad Plastic Soup morning (read mourning) the other day, this comes as very inspiring news. Thanks to ‘Uncle B’ who commented and shared this information!
According to Popular Science, the first commercially available Hawk 10 will be introduced in February.
Every hour, the first commercial version will turn 10 tons of auto waste—tires, plastic, vinyl—into enough natural gas to produce 17 million BTUs of energy (it will use 956,000 of those BTUs to keep itself running).
The inventor, Frank Pringle is a genius and modern day hero who came up with the idea one day when he drove by a large tire fire and pondered the amount of energy being released.
According to Global Research Corp website, this energy recovery technology operates in a vaccume, thus nothing is released into the enviornment during the process.
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Wow – who says there isn’t any good news out there? We’ll definitely keep an eye on this technology! I’m really interested to hear readers comments on this. Is anyone else familiar with new advances in science like this one?
I did, I really did plan to start this blog off in a positive way. But by fluke this morning I stumbled on an article about the mythical floating island of garbage… I was compelled to blog on it.
I can barely stand to tell you this but you’ve got to know. There is an enormous expanse of garbage floating around in the ocean. By enormous I mean that some say its the size of Texas – others say its equal to the distance of Hawaii to Japan. HUH?
That would be twice the size of the United States. Whatever the size, it’s enormous and its growing.
When you stop to think that only 3-5% of the plastics we use every day are recycled, and then you think about just your own shopping cart each week. It gets even scarier.
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This is the post that I originally stumbled upon: OskarLewis.com
Check these guys out! They’ve constructed a vessel built with junk and are sailing through the debris with the intention of bringing this problem to the mainstream media.
Wow – how sad and how scary. I’m curious to know what you all do to cut back on plastics… we can’t recycle many types here. After learning about this major issue, I’m planning to kick my own butt and pay much closer attention to the products we’re consuming in our home and how they are packaged. What else can we do?
you looking for a unique and eco friendly tile? Recycled glass can be an absolutely stunning choice in materials.
