Sentences with phrase «old refrigerator»

Getting rid of your 25 - year old refrigerator in favor of a 2015 model, for instance, could save you nearly $ 130 per year alone.

A ten year old refrigerator might have a fair market value of $ 100, while the cost of a new unit might be closer to $ 1,000.

HOWEVER, gathering around an idiot box can also be a time for a family to unwind and share an experience, like when mid-Americans gathered around the radio to panic over fake aliens with Orson Welles, or around the cathode ray tube to learn not to hide in old refrigerators with Soleil Moon Frye.

:: Vazu only fifteen C$ at:: edaas in Toronto, where the shelving system is made from old refrigerator doors mounted on the wall and must be seen to be believed.

I was aghast when I discovered by 18 - month old refrigerator was dead!

Another example: when our 15 - year - old refrigerator started acting up last year, I began researching Energy Star models online.

Some farmers use old refrigerators as mailboxes; they certainly can hold a lot of mail.

These programs target old refrigerators and freezers — the type often found in garages and basements — because they use substantially more electricity than those built after the introduction of federal efficiency standards.

Generally, this kind of business is subject to minimal regulation, but environmental laws to limit the scope of businesses that may legally dispose of certain kinds of waste such as toxic materials (e.g. drugs, batteries, things containing lead or mercury such as many electronic parts, petroleum products, rubber tires), and how certain materials must be handled (e.g. old refrigerators have to have doors removed).

Old refrigerator with coils (great dust collectors in Phoenix).

Emissions from old refrigerators are unavoidable unless manufacturers set up expensive reclamation schemes.

It's an old refrigerator and sometimes its hard to regulate.

In short, we've had it for months now (after the old refrigerator broke).

convert an old refrigerator or two.

These chemical compounds were once emitted by dry cleaning processes, old refrigerators, and aerosols such as hairspray.

Ozone should recover to its pre-1980 levels by the middle of this century and slightly later for Antarctica where the protective gas layer gets extremely thin between August and December every year, the WMO reportedly said, adding that the process can be speeded up by almost 11 years if existing stocks of ozone - depleting products, such as those found in old refrigerators and fire extinguishers are destroyed.

It also gave us the luxury of time to sell stuff we didn't need on Craigslist (like an old aquarium, an old refrigerator, etc).

Replace an old refrigerator with an energy - efficient one (this can save enough electricity to light the average home for more than four and a half months)

A tree that needs pruning, an old refrigerator with a noisy compressor that may not last too much longer... if you own a home, there's always something.

He plays the saint or sinner well enough, pounding an old refrigerator with stones, as if stoning Saint Stephen, but his «homages» have veered from Native Americans to artists of other races, like David Hammons and Alexander Calder.

Zoë Paul at The Breeder Few could take an old refrigerator grill and bead it in so painterly a manner as this young British artist can.

Old refrigerators, microwaves, wash basins, (the odd toilet or two), pieces of well - worn furniture and formerly personal knick - knacks, typically bound for the recycle center or the dump, have been transformed into containers for growing edible plants, flowers, and trees.

Inspired by the dramatic skyline of 1930s New York, Lassaw began to produce work in steel and iron, using tools fashioned from an old refrigerator motor.

From an old refrigerator motor he improvised brazing tools and began to build frameworks with iron rods.

I saw urban poor kids who were coming to school early and staying late to care for and measure the brown trout fingerlings they were raising in an aquarium in a Brooklyn classroom kept chilled with an improvised cooling system made of an old refrigerator by a custodian.

In Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in 1999, a middle - school teacher, Roy Arezzo, and a custodian (if my memory serves me right) cobbled together a cooling system for an aquarium using coils from an old refrigerator and, in doing so, introduced hosts of students to the fantastic «Trout in the Classroom» program.

Replacing an old refrigerator with a new ENERGY STAR - qualified model — with improved insulation and coolant systems made possible by chemistry — saves enough energy to light an average house for nearly four months.

An old refrigerator, on average, can use nearly twice as much energy as a new ENERGY STAR certified refrigerator.

Replacing an old refrigerator with one that has earned the ENERGY STAR could save you more than $ 270 a year in utility costs over the next 5 years!

There have been significant advances in refrigerator technology over the past fifteen years, which means that old refrigerators are one of the biggest energy hogs in many U.S. homes.

If you have an older refrigerator, you can save even more on your energy bills with an energy - efficient refrigerator: ENERGY STAR qualified refrigerators use up to 40 percent less energy than the conventional models sold in 2001.

For example, Mass Save, Massachusetts» energy efficiency program, offers up to a $ 200 rebate for buying an energy - efficient refrigerator, plus another $ 50 for recycling an old refrigerator.

If you have an old refrigerator in your basement or garage, you should recycle that one, too.

Recycle your old refrigerator.

By properly recycling your old refrigerator and replacing it with a new ENERGY STAR certified refrigerator, you can save more than $ 270 over the next 5 years.

Consider retiring the old refrigerator in your basement or garage.

Many appliance retailers will pick up and recycle your old refrigerator when you purchase a new one.

You can save more than $ 270 over the next five years and reduce your carbon footprint by 3,600 pounds when replacing an older refrigerator with one that's earned the ENERGY STAR.

As an example carbon project, consider what happens to an old refrigerator that makes its way to an appliance disassembly facility.

Utilities commonly estimate that homeowners can save up to $ 150 a year on their electricity bill by dumping their old refrigerator or freezer.

Old refrigerators, made prior to 1990, also use three times as much electricity as new ones, the utilities say.

«Avoiding the release of the C.F.C.'s in fridges captures five tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per fridge, and just removing the old refrigerator or freezer from the grid saves another two to five tons of carbon dioxide due to energy savings,» said Mr. Sirkin.

These chemicals are found in air conditioning systems, older refrigerators, and insulation.

We had to replace our oven last fall, and I was soooooo tempted to buy the stainless one — knowing that the 26 year old refrigerator might one day die and I could replace it in stainless too.

As an alternative to prints or paintings, have children's artwork framed (a lovely alternative to the old refrigerator - art gallery routine) or hang a row of family photos.

The handles were no longer being manufactured for the then thirty - plus - year - old refrigerator, so a make - shift handle was made by my father.

How cool is that??!! You lucky girl (but I am not so sure it will make you want to clean... hmmm) Anyway, I have been waiting and waiting and waiting for my 26 year old refrigerator to die so that we can replace it with something better, but it just keeps on going.

I want that refrigerator, perhaps not in pink, but I have always fancied an old refrigerator like that or one made to look old!