Daniel asks…
Can anyone help me figure out what this style of clothing is?
What is this style? I’ve been trying to find out if there’s a name for it. I see it a lot on the vagabond or eco–friendly groups of people. It uses a lot of linen and rough-weave clothes in earth tones and the clothes are often slightly old-fashioned or reminiscent of costumes or clothes from other countries. Usually people either go barefoot or wear sandals. It’s not dark like grunge, not as sophisticated-looking as Bohemian, and not quite as “loud” or “light” as the hippie style. Can anyone help me out?
The Expert answers:
I don’t know that it has a name. It’s just what some of us like. I’m always barefoot, and I’ll be dressing like that again in the fall.
Chris asks…
What to do with clothes hangers?
I have about a 100 dry-cleaning hangers – mostly for slacks – and probably 200 plastic clothes hangers for clothes purchases over the last 10 years or so. I hate to throw perfectly good hangers in the recycle bin – it would be more eco–friendly and financially useful to find someone who would simply use them again. But I can’t find that “someone”. The donation centers don’t want them. Any ideas?
The Expert answers:
I always return my dry cleaner hangers to the dry cleaner. They are happy to reuse them. As far as the others, try posting them on Craigslist.com or Freecycle.org
Nancy asks…
Why doesn’t the UK government pay us to recycle?
I live in the UK and I am very eco friendly. My family recycle all of our plastic, tins, paper, clothes and don’t get payed for it. Why should we waste time going to a recycling bank and putting away all our stuff when we cant get a reward? Shouldn’t there be something simple like £5 a kilo? I don’t mind going to the recycling bank, it is kinda fun, I just hate people not getting encouraged to recycle when only 17% of the UK’s waste is recycled
The Expert answers:
I agree more people would do it if they were paid for it
John asks…
Need fellow tree hugger advice! plz, plz, plz help its for the good of the enviroment?
im in the enviroment club at my school and we might make a whole line of going green clothes so i need your help finding companys that have eco frienly clothes (like this http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/04/03/ts-designs-eco–friendly-t-shirt-printing/) and ink so that we can but our logo on it!
The Expert answers:
Can you sew some leaves together and make clothes?
That would really make you seem like you care about the planet.
Carol asks…
What do about lack of recycling in my town?
This year my friends and I have been trying to go green – buying organic food and clothing, switching to eco–friendly house cleaning products, fluorescent lights, bio bags, etc; but I still wish to do more. I’ve noticed that my town does not have “recycling” days so I called my town municipal building to inquire and spoke to a very sympathetic person who runs the recycling in my town – who faces the same angst I do. Currently, there is one way to recycle paper – bring it to the Marcal toilet paper factory – but there is currently no way to recycle plastic and glass, unless I drive it over to another town.
How should I go about finding local factories/business and see if they are willing to to accept recyclable materials and what way if possible to get my neighbors involved?
The Expert answers:
Double check the site www.earth911.org to see if there are any other nearby solutions. If not, I would suggest asking your city to put in recycle bins. My city has a couple large bins around the city and you can deposit certain items into them the city keeps the money, so if there is enough interest it could be a financial incentive for the city.
I also suggest looking for schools, youth groups or cities that would be willing to take in the recycling and store it untill there is a large enough quantity to make it profitable to take it to the nearest facility.
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