Turning trash to treasure

Turning trash to treasure

ONE man's garbage is another man's treasure. No one in Buff Bay, Portland, knows this perhaps better than Neville Webb who operates a collection centre for recyclables at his home in Woodstock.

He has made a thriving business out of buying plastic bottles, tins and batteries from scavengers who rummage the nearby Doctor's Wood disposal site and ferret out the items which are later bagged and transported to a recycling company Kingston where the cans are compressed into loom, the plastic into polyester fibre, and the lead removed from the batteries.

Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Turning-trash-to-treasure_11653704#ixzz1xYaZ0EKd

Scrap metal Art

Mikhail Puchkov from Russia built the submarine you see below in his very own attic, using scrap metal to boot. 

The first iteration was pedal-powered, but he eventually upgraded the underwater submersible to an electric system. Mikhail built the submarine at a time when Russia was still a part of the USSR, and used it as a mode of transportation to see parts of his own country that were off limits to the normal citizen. 

During one of these trips, he was actually stopped by the KGB, but surprisingly enough, they didn't arrest him, but rather sent him off to a ship building college. 

Marshalltown’s M. Gervich & Sons Inc. a recycling pioneer - TimesRepublican.com | News, Sports, Jobs, Community info - Times Republican

Marshalltown’s M. Gervich & Sons Inc. a recycling pioneer - TimesRepublican.com | News, Sports, Jobs, Community info - Times Republican

"Preserving the future by recycling the past"  An excellent Moto :-)

One Stop Green now carries reCycle Clocks

An interesting use for Scrap metal

Michole Madden is a motorcycle safety instructor by day, and used her passion for motorcycles and art to create her one of a kind clocks made from old motorcycle parts. Each clock is hand crafted with love and uses parts picked out from piles of scrap metal and old fragments thrown out by mechanics.

One Stop Green now carries reCycle Clocks

SGR is back - Ideas for refining silver.

Something to try using supermarket chemicals.

How to REFINE SILVER using baking soda, Karo pancake syrup, table salt, Caustic Soda and water: 

First dissolve your silver in nitric acid. You can do this in a plastic bucket but be sure to wear protective clothing like rubber gloves and to do it out of doors. 

When the silver is all dissolved, pour the acid into another plastic bucket. Be sure not to pour any particles along with the acid. 

Add ordinary table salt to the acid until the salt stops making white clumps in the acid. Pour off the acid. 

Add baking soda to the acid to neutralize it. 

Do not pour off the white "precipitate" that the salt formed. This is pure silver chloride. 

Rinse the silver chloride with water. To the silver chloride add Caustic Soda (lye) until all the silver chloride has turned black. Rinse with water. Add Karo syrup (Corn Syrup) until all the black material (silver oxide) turns to pure silver

A most intriguing water heater design

The Top 10 Reasons Why Silver Will Be Worth More Than Gold This Decad

Silver is now the most precious commodity in the entire world. For the first time in world history there is more physical gold now then there is physical silver - and that's not just a sales pitch!

Because gold is hoarded as a precious metal and silver is consumed ie burned up, used in computers, welding and other industrial processes, the people who have actual physical silver have never been more perfectly positioned to profit from this global silver shortage.

Let this quick video show you undeniable, unequivocal proof!

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Free Url Promotion Review by Ruediger Schaefer

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Precious Metals eZine - Reports on precious metal markets :-)

Cyanide and scrap metal - Commentary - Jamaica Gleaner - Friday | July 22, 2011

Cyanide and scrap metal - Commentary - Jamaica Gleaner - Friday | July 22, 2011

The Recycler's Exchange

The Recycler's Exchange is a membership based worldwide information exchange for those companies and individuals who BUY/SELL/TRADE commodities, materials, goods and services relevant to this industry.

http://www.recycle.net/exchange/

Links to the different sources are Published on my Life is an Adventure site.