Soda water is apparently something familiar to us as a social drinking substance or something that can hit the spot in times of thirst. But you would be surprised at its other uses, mostly by being a solution towards cleaning certain items such as rugs, mugs or your usual room carpet.

We have seen a lot of common items in the world in the past and if you are looking for another item outside the known items for cleaning healthily like vinegar, try to use soda water this time around.

For stains on carpet or clothing, try pouring on a little soda water, then dab gently until the stain is gone. This works best when the stain is fresh. You can also add salt, if the stain is particularly stubborn

Use it to make an inexpensive, healthy fruit soda for children by mixing equal amounts of your favorite fruit juice with ice-cold soda.

Remove stains from coffee mugs with soda. Fill the cup with soda and let it sit for a while, then rub with any type of towel to remove stains.

soda also works well for removing stains from silver items.

(Source) Hippy Shopper

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Initially you would have thought that the basic cup of coffee would not be very eco friendly, but it really depends on your point of view. With over fifty per cent of Americans enjoying a daily cup of coffee that works out at a lot of coffee, power and water, but with no viable alternative things could be much worse.

However normal instant coffee would have been grown in factory style farming by huge companies this may not be too eco friendly, but there are certain labels to look out for which will show you that the product is in fact more eco friendly than the regular brands.

Coffee labels explained:

Fair Trade Certified: Sponsored by TransFair USA

Certified Organic: Coffee with this label has been grown free of harmful pesticides

Shade Grown: This indicates that the coffee was grown under the rainforest canopy

Rainforest Alliance Certified: Grown using low or no pesticides and workers treated fairly

Triple Certified Coffee: The best choice is coffee that is organic

Source [She Knows]

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Packaging is normally the main focus of manufacturers and in the case of milk producers, going square was initially thought of adhering towards eco-friendly principles. Apparently not all people gave them the thumbs up for this.

While the new square shaped eco-friendly milk containers have allowed them to deliver them larger in numbers, it still remains that the end users may have some issues when they are at home. For most, it seems to be messy for the reason that it is hard to pour into a glass.

Others love it because it is a space saver since you can fit it better when you buy it and place it inside your refrigerators. But perhaps the issue of ease of use is something that they failed to consider. For sure revisions will be made by the milk companies after these feedbacks.

The new shape means you can fit more jugs the delivery truck, which is more eco-friendly, and saves fuel money. But some people say it’s awkward and tough to pour.

“At first I didn’t like the looks of it, I though, ‘oh well things are only changing,’ so I bought it and I used it right away and I thought, ‘gee I don’t like this,’” said Nancy Prelesnik. “I haven’t been back there to buy that milk…want my old, regular containers”.

Other consumers were keen on the new shape.

“I prefer this carton because I have a side by side refrigerator and it fits better in the door,” said Roxanne Rilo. “The regular milk cartons have a little bit more girth and they don’t fit as well in the door itself.”

(Source) CBS Chicago

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Virtually every home must a one or two odd spoons lying around the cutlery drawer somewhere, but is it really necessary? After all what on earth could be done with an old spoon? The answer is below:

It is great when somebody can have the foresight of creating something from literally nothing, a virtually worthless object turned into what could only be described as art. These recycled spoon magnets are from a company called Radiant Ideas and the details are as follows:

Climbing Cat Magnet - Recycled Spoons PRICE: $5.99

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Well when we say McDonalds go green what we actually are saying is that their sign appear to be growing some sort of salad!

It cannot be guaranteed but, could this be a new type of salad growing operation? Nobody has actually seen any of the staff out there yet picking any of the leaves to be used in some of their burgers and salads that are available these days, however there would seem to be a pollutions going on there and what about the birds?

Source [Groovy Green]

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Fathers day is coming up and for sure, most wives and children are aching to find out what to give. There will be the usual shirts, pants or even affordable gadgets. But rather than make it all complicated, why not give one that can help the environment as well?

There are a lot of eco-friendly gifts you can give to your dad. Some may even be the common ones we give each year. But do remember that the main theme today is “eco-friendly” meaning being made from something recycled or environmental friendly such as eco-fashion clothes, ties, shorts, or jackets. It can even be food like chocolates and cookies or maybe even a little something such as a small plant or tree.

Here are some good gifts you can consider from SheKnows:

1. The Heavenly Chocolate Trio
2. Miniature Blood Orange Tree
3. Wine Grape Bonsai
4. 100 Percent Tree Free Journal

You can read them more in detail here.

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One of the most famous brewers in England has come up with an innovative new brand, East Green is the first carbon neutral beer to be made and sold in the UK. This takes beer drinking to a new level and offers drinkers to keep the full flavour of beers, but with the option to go carbon neutral in the process.

East Green – Another great tasting Beer from the Coast:

A light golden beer with subtle citrus and grassy hop aromas, dry and refreshing with well-balanced bitterness.

4.3% abv

£ 1.79 ($4) 500ml

Maris Otter malted barley

Boadicea Hops

Where did the name come from?

There are many Greens in Southwold – the one outside our brewery is called East Green. Southwold is one of the UK’s most easterly towns, the ingredients come from the area and the beer has the best green credentials – the name of this beer just had to be East Green!

What makes it carbon neutral?

High yielding barley, grown and malted in East Anglia

English Boadicea Hops are naturally aphid-resistant, reducing need for pesticides

Adnams energy efficient brew house

Adnams lightweight beer bottle

Tiny amount of remaining CO2 will be offset.

Source [Adnams]

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It’s clever how some people have vision and the skill to create large pieces of art, which have people thinking about recycling. These structures have been made from old coke cans as part a new promotion for Recycle Week here in the UK.

These sculptures have been made entirely from old coke cans; this means that someone must drunk quite a bit of coke in order to get their hands on so many empties! Well actually it is debatable as to whether these are old coke cans or just empty new cans. As this entire collection of replica structures have been ordered by Coke Cola as a promotion.

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Those people who love to have a quick coffee in an Australian McDonalds will be pleased to see that very soon there will be a new type of coffee available. This is going to be an eco friendly brand which is grown under strict eco friendly conditions.

This is a good move by the Australian branch of McDonalds as they do have some serious eco competition over there, with the likes of Starbucks also looking to change their coffee to an eco friendly variety. The coffee will be coming from the Rainforest Alliance, which is where around 500 tonnes of coffee from South America.

Source [All Headline News]

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McDonalds McCafé, its own version of serving the large demanding population of coffee lovers will be serving coffee harvested through its local farms under acclaimed eco-friendly conditions. A lot of coffee growers have started adopting this eco-friendly practice of raising own crops under environmentally friendly conditions and apparently McDonalds will start on their local area before slowly distributing the same coffee beans towards its large market in the world.

Global fast food giant McDonald’s recently announced that starting May of next year its McCafe outlets will be selling coffee made from beans grown under environmentally-friendly conditions.

In an effort to join the fast-spreading environmental corporate campaigns, McDonald’s will be selling brews made from coffee that was put through thorough inspection by a non-profit conservation organization Rainforest Alliance. This mandate would require the import of about 500 tonnes of coffee from various areas of South America, including Brazil and Colombia.

This coffee will replace those currently being sold in all the 484 McCafes in the country.

(Source) All Headline News

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Corks are normally used to seal the freshness of wine bottles before people pop them up for drinking or servings. But once they are taken out, the usual route is for these corks to find their way towards the garbage can or some even keep them for remembrance.

But for some people, recycling these used corks can be used in different ways. For groups like ReCork America, they can find other ways to re-use these corks which range from floor tiles, building insulation, automotive gaskets, craft materials, soil conditioner and sports equipment. All it really takes is some creativity and imagination and you can recycle various items, corks in this case, to suit some new lifestyle needs.

Known as ReCORK America, the program is focused on obtaining used and surplus corks from winery tasting rooms, bottling lines and quality assurance laboratories. In addition, collection locations are being established with key retailers and restaurants in larger metropolitan areas. A list of current collection locations is available on this Web site. It should be emphasized that only natural cork is being accepted. No plastic or metal closures please.

(Source) ReCork America

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Glass is a great eco material it has the quality of being able to be fashioned into virtually any shape or any size, and yet when we are finished with it we can start all over again by recycling it.

Take this glassware from Uncommon Goods, this is not just recycled glassware, this glass has come from the auto industry, yes this glass used to be in a car. Maybe it was a windscreen or headlight cover, whatever the purpose then, it is certainly, much more useful now than sitting around in a scrap yard!

But as usual being recycled glass, it is not going to be cheap! Bowls start at $65, two Beer Glasses are $20 and a couple of Wine Glasses will come out at $22!

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Well according to the makers of Vodka 360 there certainly could be and why not? Just because it is alcohol does not mean that the product and every thing about has to be totally un green.

Vodka 360 is made by the McCormick Distilling Co and they have really gone to town on their green credentials, by using all the latest methods in distilling as well using as much recycled materials in the production of all their marketing materials and labelling.

They have all of the right looking paper work and figures, so we would have to say that yes in fact a drink like vodka can, if it made in the right manner under the right condition it can be eco friendly.

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