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22-Year-Old Set To Sail The Mississippi On a Boat Made From Juice Cartons [Eco-crazy]

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2008-06-23 19:00:00 by Sean Fallon in Gizmodo
...cartons and sail 3,700 miles down one of the most treacherous rivers in the world As mentioned, the father and son team plan to set sail this weekend on what will undoubtedly be a 3-4 month trip down the river. In the end, Rhys and his father hope to recycle the boat and raise awareness about conserving the Earth's natural resources. So...
 
Tags: boat, sail, father, father hope, juice cartons, rhys jones, son team plan, set sail, 22-year-old british adventurer
 
 
 
 
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Tetra Pak Gets Recycled

2008-08-01 14:47:33 by Noel in Unplugged Living
 
...cartons of Tetra Pak . This kind of recycling program has been made possible by the collaboration of the Wiltshire County Council, Tetra Pak Ltd., the Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment, and Hills Waste Solutions So how does the whole scheme go? Well, see, residents of Wiltshire could bring in their Tetra Pak cartons to the...
 
Tags: tetra pak, tetra pak cartons, beverage cartons, cartons, wiltshire county council, wiltshire, shares andy conn, hills waste solutions, residents
 
 
 
 
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World Record - 4,000 miles on a Juice Carton Boat!

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2008-06-24 20:00:16 by max in zedomax.com
...cartons Rhys decide to join his father and the pair, from Bartley, Hampshire, now plan to battle whirlpools, white water and alligators in their 4m (12ft) craft a wooden cabin encased in a hull made of cartons They plan to set sail next weekend and may recycle the boat at the end of the trip. Its a challenge to see if it can be done, said...
 
Tags: juice carton boat, boat, carton, rhys jones, rhys, cartons, water, white water, juice cartons
 
 
 
 
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Recycling in Manila

2008-06-03 07:24:15 by Noel in Unplugged Living
 
...cartons, magazines, obsolete books, posters Plastic and Metal waste: bottles, containers, sando bags, plastic furniture, aluminum cans, tin cans and other metals Printer cartridges: toners and ink cartridges For proper disposal only: Tarpaulin streamers, household batteries, Polystyrene packaging, mobile phones, batteries and chargers, Tetra...
 
Tags: batteries, motor batteries, lead acid batteries, cartons, tetra pak cartons, makati city, june, plastic, plastic furniture
 
 
 
 
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$700,000 Worth of Fake Nike Shoes Found, Still No McFlys

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2008-11-14 15:43:22 by Jose Fermoso in Gadget Lab
...cartons of bogus Nikes were stuffed behind 30 cartons of industrial toilet paper. This is only the latest incident in the battle against trafficking of valuable gadgets and other merchandise in California ports Earlier this year, thousands of expensive counterfeit watches were seized in a Los Angeles port, and in May, $22 million worth of...
 
Tags: port, los angeles port, worth, shoes, expensive counterfeit watches, counterfeit, bogus nikes, nikes, san francisco chronicle
 
 
 
 
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Modern Mechanix Round-Up

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2008-01-09 16:40:07 by Joel Johnson in Boing Boing Gadgets
...cartons were a brand new invention, though one they hadn't quite gotten right since you had to cut off a metal cap to actually get at the milk. We also look at the 1939 debut of the recently retired Columbia cyclotron , a sci-fi looking Nazi robot leg , and a giant harmonica played by 7 children. Lastly, creative, anthropomorphic taxidermy...
 
Tags: milk, modern mechanix, paper milk cartons, miraculous inventions include, nazi robot leg, giant harmonica, anthropomorphic taxidermy, radio frequency, columbia cyclotron
 
 
 
 
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Modern Mechanix Round-Up

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2008-02-18 18:56:33 by Joel Johnson in Boing Boing Gadgets
...cartons that are virtually identical to the ones you buy in the supermarket today. We also have musical instruments from around the world, a bicycle you ride by swaying from side to side, a helmet mounted radio, a jiggling frame massager and a not-so-compact organ for your home
 
Tags: radio, local radio station, modern mechanix, radio-fax machine, milk cartons, expensive piece, midget cars, frame massager, not-so-compact organ
 
 
 
 
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Widget that tells if your milk's a goner

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2008-03-18 13:58:15 by HASH0x8472ee0 in Newlaunches.com
...cartons could tell you if it contains food poisoning bacteria - without you having to open them. A scanner at the supermarket checkout would simply sound an alarm if the pathogens are present. The widget is a strip of iron, nickel, molybdenum and boron alloy that has an unusual property: it vibrates in a magnetic field. The strip's vibrations...
 
Tags: milk, widget, fresh milk, magnetic field, plastic widget, milk expires, strip, sensor strip, plastic
 
 
 
 
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Selling wine in TetraPak containers

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2008-04-21 12:56:21 by Joel Johnson in Boing Boing Gadgets
...cartons I can't help but wonder if the trick is to stop drinking so much imported wine and trying to buy more locally available options as their available, returning and reusing the bottles. (Not always a good choice, I know.) Even so, a third more wine for the same price is a convincing argument Yellow + blue make green: a new organic malbec...
 
Tags: wine, wine importer, malbec grape wine, wine bottles, blue malbec, blue, yellow, regular bottle, bottle