It’s All About The (Eco) Bubbles!

The Samsung Eco bubble is one of the biggest innovations since sliced bread. By mixing water, air and detergent, bubbles are generated in the washing machine before your wash starts. The bubbles create foam to cushion your clothes causing the detergent to fully and evenly penetrate right through to the fibres. It’s 40 times faster than concentrated liquid, and ensures the wash gets going as soon as possible for a quicker and more efficient clean.

This washing machine can get the same results as a 40°C wash at just 15°C, helping to save 70% energy in the process. This is because the water doesn’t need to get up to a high temperature, as your detergent starts to work on dirt and stains immediately. So, your clothes are hygienically washed more efficiently, saving you money.

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A DIY Recycled Floppy Disk Penholder

Recycled Floppy Disk penholder is part of DIY project “how to make things from waste material”. Gone are the days when floppy disks are the king of removable data storage. Today, many of them are tossed to landfills, thus adds up to the mountain of landfills we have, which is not a good thing to happen for the environment. To minimize the waste created by those old floppy disks, we will present to you an easy to follow DIY floppy disk recycling project.

In this project, we will be making a stylish penholder out of your old floppy disks.

Things you need:
5 pieces – 3.5” floppy disks
5/32 drill bit
Zip ties
Piece of wood
Scissors

Steps
1. Drilling Holes
On the top part of the disk, you will see a dimple next to the metal slider. Here is where you will drill holes in four of your 5 floppy disks. These four disks will then create the four sides of the penholder. Now, for the fifth disk, which will serve as the bottom part of the holder, you will then drill a hole above the dimple of the disk.

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Eco Gift Ideas

When you feel like you run out of gift ideas for your loved ones, simply look around you, give attention to those things that you seldom use or considered as junk already. If you cannot think of the right gift for you loved one yet, take this wonderful swing created by a person named Stephen who uses his collection of tote bag and made a soft cushion from it as a sample. His lover loves it so much because not only it is cute and useful but also because the man he loved personally makes it. You too can show your love to your partners without the need to spend so much money. In this way, you have also helped minimized waste and saved the environment.

From: Something’s Hiding Inside Here