Just Add Water is a concept for a bottle lid and flavour delivery system to help extend the amount of usage you can get from a standard water bottle. The Just Add Water idea is to allow you to refill bottles with tap water and add flavour to it to make the water more appealing.

Just Add Water is a concept designed by Plus Minus Design to help reduce the amount of empty water bottles that go to landfill or for recycling every day. Most people do not like the taste of tap water, and no matter how much they know that by refilling and reusing their water bottles they help to reduce the demand and waste of plastic they still cant bring themselves to drink the stuff. The Just Add Water lid steps in to make tap water more palatable.  The lid is designed to fit on all standard water bottle necks, once in place securely the gelatin based liquid tab that is in the lid can dissolve on contact with the water, adding a burst of flavour to the tap water.

The Just Add Water lids are designed to allow you to be able to replace the gelatin based liquid tab, thus allowing you to reuse the bottle and its led time and time again. There is hope for the tabs to be made to add different things to the tap water to help make it more appealing, different flavours, maybe the ingredients to make the water into an energy drink, research into what the tabs could achieve is ongoing. The tabs would allow you to be able to add flavour anywhere, as they are small enough to be easily taken with you, all you would require is tap water to fill your bottle with.

The Just Add Water sports lid will be able to be recycled just like the water bottles when it is worn out. As the tabs will be sold in packs separately to allow you to refill your lid when needed, you would be able to buy and add the tabs without the lid, for those who do not like drinking from a sports lid or use bottles with a wider than standard mouth. The Just Add Water concept will help make it easier to reuse water bottles, refilling them with ordinary tap water and being able to transform it into something anyone would want to drink.

Source: iGreenSpot

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The Vac From The Sea is a concept by Electrolux to create vacuum cleaners from recycled plastic. Rather than using any old plastic they specifically wish to create vacuums from the plastic they will be gathering from the sea, either from floating plastic expanses or from shore lines.

With the Vac From The Sea concept, Electrolux hopes to highlight two major problems with plastic. Firstly the demand for plastic to recycle into more sustainable goods actually outstrips supply, meaning many who wish to create products from recycled plastic can struggle to do so. Secondly, and more importantly, there is a huge amount of plastic in the worlds waters. The oceans of this planet hold great amounts of plastic – there are vast floating island of plastic some, Electrolux informs us, are several times larger than the state of Texas. There is also a large quantity of plastic washed up on the worlds shorelines.

This plastic causes enormous problems for the environment, killing wildlife and destroying surrounding ecosystems. With only around 1% of plastic being recycled the amount of plastic going to waste is staggering. With Vac From The Sea this environmental horror can be turned into a new resource, helping to provide more recycled plastic that can be used to construct useful household items such as these vacuums. Electrolux plan to remove the plastic in different ways depending on the area they are working on, but methods will include diving for the plastic, scooping it from the waves, and clearing coastlines by hand. Hopefully the plastic reclaimed from the sea that is made into these products would never find its way back there. The dream would be that no other plastics find their way to our seas and that this clean up can highlight the action many need to take to recycle.

Source: Electrolux

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This Recycled Circuit Board Credit Card Holder features a circuit board for both covers. The covers help to protect the cards while they are in a bag or pocket, stopping them from being bent or broken. This card holder should appeal to anyone with an interest in technology, computing or recycling.

This Circuit Board Credit Card Holder has been made by Revolve. This company endevours to make use of a common object that is often discarded on mass. Like the Clock and the Business Card Holder featured in previous articles, the credit card holder has been created out of previously unused printed circuit boards (PCBs).

Technology today is widely seen as disposable and with technological advancements even more mundane objects contain a PCB base from which the technology is built from and around. This has lead to an ever increasing need for PCBs. They are produced in vast numbers and sadly many created are never used. This is often down to the board having a slight fault, as there are extremely high standard required for these boards. Others are discarded simply due to technological advancements making them obsolete.

The company takes these unused PCBs and re-purposes them, using them to create objects like this credit card holder. The PCB covers for the front and back of the card holder provide it with a strong inflexible cover to prevent the cards inside for being bent or snapped. The covers additionally provide protection against the cards getting scratched.

The Recycled Circuit Board Credit Card Holder costs only £3.99 plus delivery.

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The Floppy Disk Planter is an effective way to make use of any unwanted floppy disks you have lying around. This home project gives full instructions on how to construct the planter, helping you to recycle these now obsolete items into something that is both useful and decorative.

The floppy disk was an item that was in high demand in the recent past. Many households have some of these filling up draws, in boxes, though mostly any data held on them is either no longer required or already backed up onto a CD/DVD. To help prevent so many ending up in landfill suggestions for how to re-purpose them have become popular, the idea of creating a planter appeals to us here at Envirogadget as a decorative way to get more plants into our homes.

To create your own Floppy Disk Planter you will need 6 floppy disks that are no longer required, an empty plastic bottle, a plant (preferably in its own plastic pot still) some glue, a pen, and a craft knife (or another implement that allows you to cut the bottle and a disk). This ‘Blue Peter’ style project is easy to follow and the resulting planter could be used for many other purposes, for example as a pen holder or utensils pot.

This home project allows you to make use of technology that is obsolete in today’s world, helping to prevent many of these disks going to landfill.

Source: CraziestGadgets

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The Circuit Board Business Card Holder by Revolve has been mostly constructed from a discarded printed circuit board. This card holder will appeal to those in the computing industry, those with a passion about computing and to those who support recycling.

The Circuit Board Business Card Holder helps to recycle printed circuit boards (PCBs) by using them to construct parts of the card holder. As mentioned with the Circuit Board Clock, many PCBs are found to be flawed or even outdated before they are ever put to use. Revolve takes these unused boards and gives them a purpose, in this case by using them as part of the construction of a business card holder.

The quantity of unused PCBs is staggering. In today’s technological world, nearly every electronic appliance requires at least one PCB, with the demand so high that factories produce many of them daily. This mass production leads to high numbers that have a minor flaw causing them to be unsuitable for use, or for them to become obsolete before even sold. These PCBs are usually sent in large numbers to landfill. The Circuit Board Business Card Holder makes use of this often discarded material to create a card holder that makes a great talking point whether about electronics or about the environment.

The Circuit Board Business Card Holder is available for £7.99 plus delivery.

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The Universal Packaging System allows you to pack objects that have an odd shape effectively and help you to have the right sized box on hand at all times. The system comes as a flat sheet that due to its construction can be formed into a range of different shapes.

The Universal Packaging System is a concept created by designer Patrick Sung. The system is a sheet of recyclable corrugated cardboard which has inbuilt patterning. These patterns allow the sheet to be wrapped and formed around even awkward shapes securely. The patterning also allows you to construct a range of box shapes out of the one sheet, helping to ensure that you can always construct a box suitable for what you wish to package.

This concept helps you to save on space, with only a few flat sheets requiring storage for use instead of maybe requiring a range of boxes. As it can be formed around oddly shaped items it can also help save on the use of packaging materials, as often these objects would have to be placed in a larger box and padded securely out will some form of filling material (like polystyrene).

The Universal Packing System should take up less room during transportation to destinations, such as shops, than constructed boxes because it is flat. This would help reduce the number of vehicles required for distribution of packaging items such as boxes. The recyclable system should help reduce the amount of packaging options anyone requires, and lower the quantity of non recyclable packaging they may need to use.

Source: Yanko Design

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The Circuit Board Wall Clock by Revolve has been constructed from discarded printed circuit boards. This is a modern looking clock that any technology geek will appreciate which gives a purpose to materials that would otherwise be discarded to landfill.

The Circuit Board Wall Clock recycles printed circuit boards (PCBs) by using them to construct the face of the clock. In the computer revolution of modern times many PCBs are created daily. Most pieces of electronics require one and so many are created in a range of sizes.

The electronic equipment that PCBs are found in is largely seen to be disposable, to be discarded rather than fixed when broken. Because of this there is a very high sustained demand for many different types of electronics and so there is a high demand for these boards. The constant demand for these PCBs has lead to them being produced in very large quantities, many of them fail the stringent quality controls and so are never used while some never see use as they become obsolete as technology advances.

Revolve take in these PCBs that have yet to be used for whatever reason and turn them into objects with a purpose. The wall clock is a fully functioning clock suitable for any room. The PCB face of the clock gives the clock a modern look and as it is constructed from materials that would otherwise be filling landfills the clock also helps to show your eco friendly credentials to anyone who sees it. The clock has a diameter of roughly 15.5 cm (6.1 in) and is supplied with a battery.

The Circuit Board Wall Clock costs just £14.99.

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The CompoSphere is a composting tumbler system which can be rolled around to aerate the  composting materials within to help it to decompose quicker into compost. This ability to roll it around also means it can be easily moved to where it is needed for you to place cuttings and such like within it.

The CompoSphere takes a lot of the hard work out of home composting. Home Composting is a great way to cut the amount of rubbish being sent to landfill, while making a useful product to be used on your garden to help it flourish. This is great for those wanting to be a little more eco-friendly by growing their own fresh produce or for those who just enjoy gardening.

Waste items like grass cuttings, branch cuttings, peelings and other organic matter make great components for compost. As these things decompose the bacteria helping it to break down requires oxygen to work effectively. To help it work and so turn into usable compost quicker it is best to aerate the material, this can be hard work turning over a compost pile, or rotating a composting tub. The CompoSphere takes the hard work out of this as it is designed to be easily rolled around to aerate its contents. The sphere has a flat bottom to prevent it from rolling away accidentally and in this bottom there are drainage holes to allow any fluids produced while composting to flow out. Because of this it is a good idea to place something absorbent underneath the sphere to soak this up.

The CompoSphere is also useful due to its ability to be rolled as it can be easily moved to where it is required. Instead of collecting branches, leaves or grass cuttings into a wheelbarrow to take to the compost area, you can move it to them. This way you aerate the materials while simply using the item. The CompoSphere can hold 315lt of material, and has grips and tread to help it to be easily maneuvered around even when full. It measures 76 cm x 61 cm x 43 cm (29.9in x 24 in x 16.9 in). The CompoSphere is made out of recycled, UV protected plastic, which adds to its eco-friendly credentials.

The CompoSphere costs just £89.50 with free delivery.

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It’s not unusual these days to get through loads of batteries, since we seem to have an increasing number of gadgets. The Deluxe Battery Wizard can help you save money on the batteries you buy, simply by charging up non-rechargeable batteries (i.e. standard alkaline batteries) up to 10 more times! You can charge up to 4 batteries at a time, and you can recharge all of the major battery types, namely AAA, AA, C, D and 9v PP3 batteries.

You can recharge ordinary alkaline batteries and rechargeable Ni-Cad or Ni-Mh batteries with the battery wizard. The status of each battery is shown on the LCD display on the charger unit. The unit is powered from the 240V mains and will automatically shut off once the batteries have been charged in order to save energy. The battery wizard is a great way to squeeze a little extra life out of your batteries before you recycle them.

The Deluxe Battery Wizard is the battery charger non-rechargeable batteries, since the built-in micro-controller ensures that the batteries get topped up as much as possible without damaging them.

The Deluxe Battery Wizard is available for £24.95 plus delivery.

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The projects include:

• Making batteries from everyday items
• Solar power generator
• Sneaky sources of wires
• Sneaky eco-wristband
• Food/Cereal box magazine and file holder
• Sneaky book safe
• Recycling multi-bin
• Sneaky solar-motor
• And lots more!

Sneaky Green Uses on Amazon.com for around $10.39 and Sneaky Green Uses on Amazon.co.uk for around £6.93. I’ve got Cy’s other books on Sneaky Uses, and they’re a great read. Certainly an entertaining way to spend a rainy weekend!

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