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03/13/2014

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Furniture accounted for 8.8 million tons, or 3.6 percent, of our overall waste stream in 2005 (quadruple the tonnage in 1960), according to the EPA. One man’s trash may be another thrift store-lover’s treasure, but let’s get serious: That $2 coffee table isn’t doing anyone any good sitting in the garage. Dust off that stash of thrifted furniture and check out these 10 creative ways to give it a second life in style. Not a thrift store enthusiast? Don’t worry. One look at these projects may change your mind.


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1. Get crafty with an old door
Photo: Stacey Freet/Embracing Change

Old construction components, such as doors and windows, can be found dirt-cheap at thrift stores. But many thrifty shoppers shy away from these picks simply because they think they have no use for them.

This inventive project from Embracing Change blogger Stacey Freet proves that there’s always a great use for an abandoned door. By adding a few coats of paint and two sawhorses from her garage, the crafty mom transformed an old door into a stunning outdoor table for family picnics.

For added color, Freet gathered four mismatched chairs that she picked up from Freecycle, and gave them all a coat of bright red paint for an eye-catching look that’s sure to impress.

Check out her tutorial at Embracing Change for tips and step-by-step instructions.

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03/13/2014

The average person generates over 4 pounds of trash every day and about 1.5 tons of solid waste per year.
In 2009, Americans produced enough trash to circle the Earth 24 times.
Over 75% of waste is recyclable, but we only recycle about 30% of it.
We generate 21.5 million tons of food waste each year. If we composted that food, it would reduce the same amount of greenhouse gas as taking 2 million cars off the road.
Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to listen to a full album on your iPod. Recycling 100 cans could light your bedroom for two whole weeks.
Recycling aluminum cans saves 95% of the energy used to make alum cans from new material.
Americans throw away 25,000,000 plastic bottles every hour.
Over 87% of Americans have access to curbside or drop-off paper recycling programs.
In 2009, Americans threw away almost 9 million tons of glass. That could fill enough tractor trailers to stretch from NYC to LA (and back!).
In 2010, paper recycling had increased over 89% since 1990.
If every American recycled just one-tenth of their newspapers, we could save about 25 million trees each year.

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