Recycled CD holders

If you work with computers you have CDs around.
Perhaps you use them to store your music, archive your photos or back up your hard drive. You have probably realised that buying in bulk is an economical alternative to all that packaging. The thing is, you end up with all those strange plastic containers.

Artist Julie Frith has a solution - convert them into toilet paper dispensers!! A brilliant idea, simple to make and great fun. Give it a go, you only need a sharp knife and the desire to pull the cardboard tube out of your toilet paper roll!

Julie also has an interesting blogsite: http://www.curbly.com/frithmobiles/posts.rss

Carry your Juice Box

It seems we drink a lot of juice. Healthy and good for you but we then throw all the packaging away – tonnes of the stuff.

A women’s cooperative in the Philippines is doing something about it and making a range of bags, purses and accessories from recycled juice packs - non-biodegradable foil and plastic packaging that would otherwise go into landfill sites and incinerators.

The Cooperative began as an environmental project with the aim of 'cleaning and greening' the local neighbourhood. It has since become increasingly successful and now employs over 200 women and distributes its innovative products world-wide.

They have a huge range and orders are processed in London for UK delivery.

More details at www.doybags.com