Sentences with phrase «recycling as a way of life»

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Manufacturers benefit from recycling in several ways: Recycled glass reduces emissions and consumption of raw materials, extends the life of plant equipment, such as furnaces, and saves energy.

Manufacturers benefit from recycling in several ways — it reduces emissions and consumption of raw materials, extends the life of plant equipment, such as furnaces, and saves energy.

Cloth diapering really is not that hard (and it is way cheaper than disposables), carpooling to work or taking public transportation is a viable option for thousands of parents who work in cities, and doing other simple things like recycling as much as possible, using washable napkins instead of paper - towels, using 100 % post-consumer recycled toilet paper (even just once in a while), and using a handkerchief instead of kleenex are all simple life - changes that can add up to seriously changing your carbon footprint.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

House has in fact already entered the everyday visual currency that shapes the way we see the world, just as much as the famous Carl Andre bricks, or Boy George or Punk - all once the subject of horrified outrage, and all quickly co-opted into mainstream sensibility, to be recycled as knowing, sly jokes, to appear as the inspiration for the imagery of advertising, to be used as seasonings to the blandness of everyday life.

(Warsaw, Poland) Under the theme «degrowth», a social movement which argues against the current compulsory economic growth and favours ways of improving life quality within the natural environment, the exhibition promotes an alternative lifestyle through means and method such as recycling and green transport.

The fact that I'm recycling has become secondary to the pleasures of sewing, although I started quilting initially as a way of giving a second life to worn out clothing.

As it becomes more expensive for manufacturers to see their devices through to end of life, will this lead to products that have a longer life span or are easier to recycle?The Hartford Courant reports, «The requirement for payment by manufacturers injects an important element of «producer responsibility,» Gov. M. Jodi Rell said in a statement, adding, «Connecticut is well on its way to implementing an innovative system for consumers to responsibly recycle electronic devices that is comprehensive, convenient and free.»»