eco & earth business ideas..

[chuck kottke]

Since Coldplay are into sustainable forests, fair trade, and other progressive values-oriented things, I though it would be neat to have a thread to discuss eco, human, & earth-friendly business ideas..

>>I was thinking about a problem: what to do with all the old porcelain things (old lamps, sinks, toilets, tanks, broken objects, etc..)? And then I remember walking a beach near here, seeing all the rounded, smoothed "pebbles" made by the wave action on old glass bottles. So, I began to wonder, if breaking up old porcelain objects, and tumbling them would be worth the while.. the resulting 'stones' could be used in place of washed gravel in landscaping projects, and these intert porcelain pebbles would probably be quite attractive.. What sayest thou?

>> Lots of plastics are still being tossed - everywhere. Would be nice if only biodegradable types were used, but in the present, I had another idea - fuse the odd types into garden statues and such, where brittleness isn't such a big issue.. Sound viable?

[Pris]

>>I was thinking about a problem: what to do with all the old porcelain things (old lamps, sinks, toilets, tanks, broken objects, etc..)? And then I remember walking a beach near here, seeing all the rounded, smoothed "pebbles" made by the wave action on old glass bottles. So, I began to wonder, if breaking up old porcelain objects, and tumbling them would be worth the while.. the resulting 'stones' could be used in place of washed gravel in landscaping projects, and these intert porcelain pebbles would probably be quite attractive.. What sayest thou?

I lovelovelove that idea :wacky:

[MrMagpie]

Would have to make sure the energy for tumbling these old relics would be from renewable sources :P