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Image credits: Usual_Examination_65 In 2022, a survey by Lombardo Homes found that the most popular holiday decoration in America was the Christmas tree, with 67% of respondents preferring a real ...
Pallet crafts are crafts and projects which use discarded wooden shipping pallets. Wooden pallets are often used for shipping products, but when these get old, they are often thrown away. However, there are many ways to recycle old pallets. Issue 14 of ReadyMade Magazine issued out a MacGyver challenge to find some way to reuse shipping pallets ...
As the 2024 holiday season is in full swing, make room for creative gifting when starting your seasonal shopping list. Of course, store-bought trinkets, gadgets, and apparel are the expected norms ...
In Canada, 6 million rolls of tape are used and discarded yearly for gift wrapping at Christmas. [15] Some people attempt to avoid wastage by unwrapping gifts with care to allow the paper to be reused, while others use decorated cloth gift sacks that can be easily reused many times; both of these concepts are part of the green gifting trend ...
Another important factor is the durability of the wood, especially in regards to moisture. If the finished project will be exposed to moisture (e.g. outdoor projects) or high humidity or condensation (e.g. in kitchens or bathrooms), then the wood needs to be especially durable in order to prevent rot.
Venice Biennale installation by Małgorzata Mirga-Tas (2022) - artistic upcycling of old textile materials. While recycling usually means the materials are remade into their original form, e.g., recycling plastic bottles into plastic polymers, which then produce plastic bottles through the manufacturing process, upcycling adds more value to the materials, as the name suggested.
One way to address this is to increase product longevity; either by extending a product's first life or addressing issues of repair, reuse and recycling. [2] Reusing products, and therefore extending the use of that item beyond the point where it is discarded by its first user is preferable to recycling or disposal, [3] as this is the least energy intensive solution, although it is often ...
The nature of craft skill and the process of its development are continually debated by philosophers, anthropologists, and cognitive scientists. [1] Some scholars note that craft skill is marked by particular ways of experiencing tools and materials, whether by allowing tools to recede from focal awareness, [2] perceiving tools and materials in terms of their practical interrelationships, [3 ...