Brands and Culture, Symbiotic?

When you need to urgently need to blow your nose in Germany and don’t have a tissue on hand, you might ask a friend “Hast du ein Tempo?” (Do you have a Tempo?) Tempo, it turns out, is a brand of tissue, not the German word for tissue. Substituting a brand name for a general product description is relatively common across a number of languages.

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Eco-Coolie Plays Dress Up for Halloween

This is a guest post by John Simonetta, owner of Proforma Simonetta Freelance, an eco-friendly promotional items consultancy (see proformagreen.com).

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How can I reuse or recycle flip-flops?

We’ve had an email from Hannah: What can I do with old flip flops? I’m presuming Hannah means the cheap foam ones that are omnipresent in the summer but sadly disappear into the dark, dusty backs of cupboards as soon as autumn arrives, never to re-emerge. Because, toe-thong aside, they’re pretty much just foam shapes, a lot of the suggestions for foam drink holders and foam swim float will apply here too such as floor protectors under furniture legs, cut up/carved for foam stamps, or used as knitwear blocking boards or boards for macrame

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How can I make a picture/mirror frame using recycled stuff?

After a month of frantic renovation (which is nowhere nearly finished but a lot of the dirty work is done), we’re finally moving into our new home today – hurrah! Until the weekend, we’d been focusing on the renovation stuff – pulling down ugly fake walls , cleaning out sooty chimneys and ripping down plasterboard in preparation for damp-proofing work (the last thing resulted in the discover of a secret new room, it’s sadly unusable without a lot of expensive work so we’re leaving it for now) – and so hadn’t given much thought to the finer points of today’s move, such as working out where all our stuff is going to go. We’ve got a giant (120cm/4ft square) frameless mirror above our fireplace in the living room here (acquired from a shop changing room refit apparently) and I think it will probably be relocated to above the fireplace in the dining room of the new house – but I think its lack of frame will look odd there

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Raining Rose Provides Green Treats For October Events

This is a guest post by John Simonetta, owner of Proforma Simonetta Freelance, an eco-friendly promotional items consultancy (see proformagreen.com ). John’s blogs are designed to keep us up to date on the “greening” of his industry. Readers may have noticed that in my last few posts I have been focusing on promotional items that can be used by Ecopreneurists for marketing in two rather large October events, National Breast Cancer Awareness Month and Halloween.

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How can I reuse or recycle single-cup coffee filters?

We’ve had an email from Steve asking: How can I reuse or recycle one-cup filter coffee packs? I think Steve means these – little plastic pots that you put on the top of your cup/mug and fill with boiling water. The water then seeps through the filter-coffee-filter sandwich at the bottom et voila! , a cup of filter coffee without needing a machine.

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How can I reuse or recycle toothpicks?

We’ve had an email from Jo: Work was clearing out a stockroom the other day and unearthed a giant box of 10000 toothpicks which must have been there for years. My boss was going to throw them away but I jumped in to save them. Please tell me there is something I can do with them! Like used matchsticks , they’d be great to use as spacers while tiling or you could use them to make modern, spiky ornaments

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How can I reduce the amount of toiletries I use?

We’ve had an email from Di: Every week I have to buy more shampoo, more conditioner, more shower gel… for my family and want it to stop.

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How can I reuse or recycle plastic mailing bags?

Envelopes?

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Jewellery made from recycled stuff – a mini-round-up

It’s been a little while since I showed off some awesome recycled crafts but I really should get back on with that because, wow, some of them are ace. Here’s a selection of creations by three wonderful women, who are, coincidentally, all currently based in the north-west of England – sometimes I’m think I’m living on the wrong side of the Pennines… First up, Recycle This’s favourite wire-woman Alison Bailey Smith has been making pins, brooches and fascinators from assorted plastic packaging and the like (above) – I particularly like the way she’s used bottle lids and the lids as centre pieces. Next, Ann Ellis sent over these necklaces/bracelets (above) she makes out of plastic bottles, bags and cans – gorgeous stuff and again, like Alison’s things, not something you’d immediately guess what it was made from

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