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  2. Sell Your Stuff Safely With These 10 Craigslist Alternatives

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    10 Best Craigslist Alternatives. Reselling items you no longer love, need or use is a smart way to put some money back in your pocket and to keep still-useful items out of landfills. But you ...

  3. Gypsum recycling - Wikipedia

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    By choosing closed loop recycling the need for manufacturers to acquire virgin gypsum is reduced, contributing therefore to promote a sustainable manufacturing process. The most advanced plants, and most of these are found in the Nordic countries in Europe, have substituted up to 30 per cent of virgin gypsum raw materials with recycled gypsum.

  4. Cast Earth - Wikipedia

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    Cast Earth is a proprietary natural building material developed since the mid-1990s by Harris Lowenhaupt and Michael Frerking [1] based on the earlier Turkish Alker, which is a concrete-like composite with soil of a suitable composition as its bulk component stabilized with about 15% calcined gypsum (plaster of Paris) instead of Portland cement.

  5. Alternative natural materials - Wikipedia

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    Alternative natural materials are natural materials like rock or adobe that are not as commonly used as materials such as wood or iron. Alternative natural materials have many practical uses in areas such as sustainable architecture and engineering. The main purpose of using such materials is to minimize the negative effects that built ...

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    Cheap furniture might seem like a shortcut, but the hidden costs are lurking. Sustainable pieces may cost more upfront, but they're the smarter, cleaner, and ultimately cheaper choice in the long run.

  7. Sustainable flooring - Wikipedia

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    This is sustainable and it reduces material sent to landfill; further it uses dyeing methods that are less polluting and require less energy than other flooring. This flooring is sustainable when used alongside eco-friendly adhesive, as some products may have toxic finishes added (stain/fireproofing) that are not considered sustainable.

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  9. Living building material - Wikipedia

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    A living building material (LBM) is a material used in construction or industrial design that behaves in a way resembling a living organism.Examples include: self-mending biocement, [1] self-replicating concrete replacement, [2] and mycelium-based composites for construction and packaging.