Ways to reuse products

Finding ways to reuse products takes both common sense and creativity. Here are a few ideas on how you can get double duty out of various products around the home.

If you can’t reuse a product yourself, find someone who can. Sell it in a yard sale, donate it to a community organization, or set up an exchange program. Call local elementary schools and day-care centers to find out what items might be useful. Local teachers may consider your trash to be treasure in the hands of creative youngsters.

Consider donating books and magazines to public libraries or to nursing homes. If newspaper recycling is not an option in your area, check with local pet stores and animal shelters to see if they can use your discarded newspapers.

Ideas for recycling old clothes

According to Earth Talk instead of throwing away the loads of old clothes that are too threadbare or simply too outdated to wear, recycle them using these ideas:

Laundry Bags

Old dresses can be simply closed at the bottom and hung on hangers to make laundry bags. Clothes are stored inside through the neck of the dress. If the bottom is closed by Velcro or buttons, clothes can be easily removed for washing by opening them.

Around the House

Cotton T-shirts can be turned into kitchen wipes or polishing cloths since they are very absorbent.

Sheets and towels can be used to line pet bedding.

Did You Know?

If every American home replaced just one light with an ENERGY STAR light, we would save enough energy to light more than 3 million homes for a year, about $700 million in annual energy costs, and prevent 9 billion pounds of greenhouse gas emissions per year, equivalent to the emissions of about 800,000 cars.

An ENERGY STAR qualified compact fluorescent light bulb (CFL) will save about $30 over its lifetime and pay for itself in about 6 months. It uses 75 percent less energy and lasts about 10 times longer than an incandescent bulb.

What is the Sierra Club?

The Club is America's oldest, largest, and most influential grassroots environmental organization. Inspired by nature, we are 1.3 million of your friends and neighbors, working together to protect our communities and the planet. 

Unique-Fashionable-Eco Friendly

Aren't we all looking for ways to stretch our dollar today? Cangles gives you the opportunity to buy affordable jewelry that is unique and fashionable but also eco friendly.

Exciting News!!!

We are pleased to announce that we have been selected by the Save the Earth Foundation to design one-of-a-kind eco bracelets with a special Save the Earth™ message! When you purchase one of these unique bracelets, Cangles will donate a percentage to Save the Earth Foundation to aid them in their work.

If you're not familiar with this non-profit organization, the Save the Earth Foundation was established in 1972. As the pioneer in environmental philanthropy, they fund ecological research, raise environmental consciousness and educate society on environmental issues. The goal is to help slow - and ultimately reverse - our planet's deterioration.

 

A interesting way to recycle

Pack a waste free lunch

Five Simple Ways to Pack a Waste-Free Lunch

YES	NO
REUSABLE carrier (cloth bag, lunchbox)	NO throw-away bags
REUSABLE containers	NO plastic wrap, foil or styrofoam
THERMOS for drinks	NO single-use cartons or cans
CLOTH NAPKIN to wash and re-use	NO paper napkins
SILVERWARE to wash and re-use	NO plastic forks and spoons

Lunch Waste Facts

ALUMINUM FOIL	More than 20 million Hershey's kisses are wrapped with 133 square miles of foil every day
ALUMINUM AND TIN CANS	In the time it takes you to read this sentence, more than 50,000 12-oz. aluminum cans were made
BANANA AND ORANGE PEELS	Food debris in a landfill decompose only 25% in the first 15 years (try composting or vermiculture!)
JUICE BOXES	Most inorganic trash retains its weight, volume, and form for at least four decades
PAPER BAGS AND NAPKINS	It is estimated that 17 trees are cut down for every ton of non-recycled paper
PLASTIC BOTTLES, FORKS, WRAP	U.S. citizens discard 2-1/2 million plastic bottles EVERY HOUR
STYROFOAM	U.S. citizens throw away 25 billion styrofoam cups EVERY YEAR

Your favorite drink?

Do you have a favorite pop/soda or energy drink?  We make bangles and cuffs out of one of

your favorites.  They can be plain or they can be fancy.  Go to our website and see for yourself www.cangles.com.

Basic Benefits of Aluminum Can Recycling

• Aluminum Can Recycling offers huge reductions in energy consumption and saves natural resources.
• Aluminum can recycling saves 95% of the energy needed to produce aluminum from bauxite ore.
• Aluminum Can Recycling creates 97% less water pollution than producing new metal from ore.
• Aluminum Can Recycling can help reduce waste disposal costs (since the Aluminum Cans are removed from the waste stream).
• Aluminum Can Recycling can generate revenues from the sale of the recycled Aluminum.
• Aluminum Can Recycling can reduce labor costs associated with the handling of Aluminum Cans during the waste disposal process.
• Aluminum Can Recycling can help with streamlining overall waste processing operations.
• Aluminum Can Recycling can help free up space (used for the temporary storage of Aluminum Cans).
• Aluminum Can Recycling can help improve workplace safety and neatness.

Giving back

Cangles, LLC currently donates a percentage of each sale to Save The Earth Foundation. Check with us periodically to see which environmental organization we are contributing to. The tabs removed from the cans we use to craft our eco bracelets are donated to the Ronald McDonald House in Detroit, Michigan, in memory of Nicole Emily Briggs, who was with us from

August 16, 1986 to March 12, 1990. Cangles, LLC donates 50 cents from the sale of

every bracelet made from a Vernors can to the Vassar Area Angel Food Ministry.Additionally, we offer for sale a specially designed Cangles "Cure" bracelet. For every one sold, we donate $1 to the Susan G. Komen Foundation.

Buy Cangles - help save the earth

When you buy Cangles, you contribute in many ways:

•Remove 1 less can from the Earth’s landscape

•Contribute to Ronald McDonald House Charities

•Contribute to scientific research and education through Save the Earth™ Foundation

•Personal satisfaction from participating in improving our eco environment for

future generations

•Provide jobs for fellow Americans

Michigan's Earth Day event

Make plans to join Michigan’s largest Earth Day event, on April 23-25, 2010, celebrating what is working in our communities and showcasing leadership in green business, government and non-profit programs.

The MI Earth Day Fest will welcome to downtown Rochester an anticipated audience of 100,000 people from around Michigan, eager to learn about green and healthy living, and seeking earth-friendly alternatives in food, energy, transportation, clothing, wellness, career, home, garden, finances and more.

What is a Cangle?

I’m sure you’ve seen lots of interesting ways in which people are using recycled materials, but they all look the same – there’s little or no choice of style or color to appeal to your unique personality. Just think of the dozens of colors and designs that canned sodas, teas and energy drinks come in these days. That’s why I’m really excited about Cangles, because we’re offering you so many styles to choose from! Every single Cangles is handmade using recycled (and sanitized) aluminum cans. The result is a colorful, eco-friendly, one-of-a-kind eco bangle or eco cuff.