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101 Household Tips for Every Room in your Home. I love to discover tips which make housework easier!

101 Household Tips for Every Room in your Home

From time-saving tricks to finding new and ingenious uses for old things, the Internet provides a wealth of information and advice. In this post I've collected 101 visual tips from all over the web to help you save time and money in every room of your home. About this post. 15 Brilliant Things You Can Do with Command Hooks. Tutorial: Easy Tiny Envelopes. Guest tutorial by Ruth Bleakley I discovered this envelope making method completely by accident when pulling soggy rain-soaked mail out of my leaky mailbox - I had a total *eureka* moment when the envelope I gingerly opened up completely unfolded at the seams revealing an envelope "template" perfectly.

Tutorial: Easy Tiny Envelopes

I've seen many envelope tutorials online, some offer downloadable templates, some show fancy paper folding techniques and some suggest specific measurements to create your own D.I.Y. envelopes. I'm going to show you how to replicate any interesting envelope that you might already have, no measuring involved! 100 Ways to Repurpose Everything (Mega Roundup!)

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100 Ways to Repurpose Everything (Mega Roundup!)

Well, you’re in for a post of epic eco-tastic proportions. So epic that you may need to give your computer or mobile device an extra moment to load all of our pretty pictures. Seeing as we love to repurpose just about anything under the sun, we’re celebrating Earth Day by serving up 100 of our favorite ways to upcycle, reuse, and transform everyday materials into creative new things to wear, hang on the wall, and give to friends.

Sustainable and Green Custom Packaging. Ensure that Your Business Offers Environmentally Friendly, Sustainable Packaging Options At Howard Packaging, wherever possible, we try and provide our customers with sustainably produced, environmentally friendly packaging products.

Sustainable and Green Custom Packaging

Whether it’s recycled paper shopping bags, merchandise bags, SOS bags, tissue or gift boxes our products help to ‘close the loop’--- recycled products that can be easily recycled. Papermaking 101 & DIY Mold & Deckle. Industrial Goods Marketing - Definition of Industrial Goods Marketing. In actual operation of food green packaging design, designers will generally take into account whether packaging materials will cause some of the environmental and human health hazards, but little attention they will pay to potential environmental and human health hazards from ink in the process of packaging printing.

Industrial Goods Marketing - Definition of Industrial Goods Marketing

The green packaging such as eco friendly cosmetic packaging, often called the environmental friendly packaging, refers to the package which is harmless to the ecological environment and human health, can be reused and regenerated, and conforms to the sustainable development policy. Its concept has two meanings, one is to protect the environment, the other is to save resources, and neither can exist effectively without the other. 20 Ways to Avoid Toxins in Plastic. While I am no big fan of plastic because it is made from petroleum, it is nevertheless an unavoidable part of modern life in the U.S. Therefore, it is extra important to separate the “good” plastics from the ones that can leach harmful chemicals like BPA, BPS, phthalates, xenoestrogens, lead and antimony into food, beverages and the environment.

These toxic chemicals—found in the majority of plastic, PVC and vinyl items produced today—have been linked to obesity, enlarged male breasts, earlier puberty in girls, and increased incidence of breast, prostate and other cancers. In fact, they are so toxic, these plastic additives have been banned in Europe, Canada, China, and an increasing number of cities and states in the U.S.