What are the most efficient foods for the body to process? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Oct 22, 2009 - 10 answers

What proportion of leather comes from animals whose other parts are ultimately consumed by humans for food? What proportion of leather-bearing food animals' skins are ultimately made into leather? How would i find out? [more inside]
posted by dkg on Oct 9, 2009 - 6 answers

I have a broken hair dryer. Can I recycle it? I live in Brighton, UK - I can't find anything on the local council website about recycling this type of item. Do I just bin it? Thanks!
posted by Kirn on Aug 17, 2009 - 3 answers

Waste Oil Diesel. Any satisfied users? [more inside]
posted by Jon-o on Jun 27, 2009 - 4 answers

I need a good collection of readings identifying major issues associated with energy production using biomass. [more inside]
posted by greekphilosophy on Apr 21, 2009 - 3 answers

What would you name a green project that saves electricity throughout a building? [more inside]
posted by Black_Umbrella on Feb 7, 2009 - 17 answers

Can grocery retailers claim a tax deduction for the market value of donated food, or just the cost of that food? I've been given both answers - but only one can be right, right? [more inside]
posted by greggish on Jan 27, 2009 - 7 answers

With some products, the off-brand is as good as any other brand, sometimes even coming off the same production lines in the same factories. With other products, there is a quality difference between brands. How about for replacement HEPA filters for a Kenmore air cleaner? (And, as a bonus, should I believe the warning against washing and reusing the charcoal pre-filters?) [more inside]
posted by daisyace on Oct 30, 2008 - 4 answers

What's the best P2P direct connect software for University networks? [more inside]
posted by ilumos on Sep 12, 2008 - 8 answers

Is cooking (or re-heating) my food with a microwave destroying the food, sucking out nutrients that would not be removed by heating on the stove top in a stainless pan? I've heard this here and there, dated an Earth Mother South Austin Woman who was/likely is certain that I may as well put nuclear waste products AND rat poison in my food, pretty much heard the same about twenty minutes ago from a woman working in the vitamin/supplements department at Whole Foods, yet another Austin Earth Mother type; just the fact that I said the word 'microwave' caused her to get a big frowny face, looked like she had gas or something. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, I like to toss broccoli with just a shade of water into the microwave for a couple of minutes, or re-heat my rice and beans or soup or whatever. Related: Does cooking vegetables in a pressure cooker rob them of needed nutrients? [more inside]
posted by dancestoblue on Aug 7, 2008 - 26 answers

Is there an easy way to get rid of hundreds of pages of private documents? [more inside]
posted by PandemicSoul on Jul 4, 2008 - 14 answers

Are gas station forecourts really air conditioned in some places in the USA? [more inside]
posted by bystander on Jul 3, 2008 - 37 answers

Help me have a well-managed pantry. [more inside]
posted by Flunkie on Jun 18, 2008 - 16 answers

Is there some easy, cheap and useful way to deal with twiggy tree branch trimmings at home? [more inside]
posted by b33j on Apr 14, 2008 - 7 answers

W.A.S.T.E. of a question, but I need a script that will perform a diff and play an alert sound when a reload reveals that the HTML page has changed relative to the previous reload. [more inside]
posted by |n$eCur3 on Apr 8, 2008 - 8 answers

Strategies for greening the work place? [more inside]
posted by InstantSanitizer on Apr 7, 2008 - 11 answers

yesterday, my neighbor was talking about that stuff we had as kids that was basically a little tube of awful smelling plastic gunk and a small straw. you put a glob of plastic on the straw and blew weird, oily bubbles. anyone remember what that crap was called? what was it?
posted by xz on Mar 13, 2008 - 23 answers

Don't publishers waste a significant amount of money and paper by including blank pages at the begining and end of their books? I have seen as much as six blank pages included at the begining and end of books. Now if the book becomes a hot seller and sells let's say 500,000 copies, that's 2 million blank white pages if it has as little as four blank pages. Don't publishers keep this in mind? Or is the cost of paper insignificant? The environmental factor should be considered as well as the monetary one of "wasting" so much paper.
posted by princeofpersiaxz on Jan 25, 2008 - 22 answers

Zero waste is the topic. Turned up zero hits in my AskMeFi search. [more inside]
posted by valentinepig on Dec 17, 2007 - 8 answers

The org I work for has 1000 coffee mugs we can't use. What can we do with them to keep them out of a landfill? [more inside]
posted by nomad73 on Dec 12, 2007 - 32 answers

How do I stop paper junk mail? Is there an equivalent of the government Do Not Call List for regular mail?
posted by destro on Nov 14, 2007 - 21 answers

My wife has come to the conclusion that it's more environmentally friendly to use a paint roller once (and then let it dry out and throw it away) as opposed to wasting upteen gallons of water cleaning all the paint out in order to reuse the roller. This seems crazy and a waste of money to me. What say you AskMetafilterians?
posted by ssmith on Sep 17, 2007 - 21 answers

We've got a garden. We don't have a car. Soon, the garden is going to change and produce a lot of waste vegetation (that hedge has to go, etc. etc.). So I'm looking at purchasing a garden shredder, and I realise I know nothing about this sort of thing. Is a petrol powered shredder that much better than a good electric one? Is there anything else I should know about these machines? [more inside]
posted by handee on Sep 2, 2007 - 7 answers

The local council is urging residents who live in a flat to get a food waste disposer (garbage disposal). Are these units an environmentally sound alternative to composting? [more inside]
posted by chuckdarwin on Jul 13, 2007 - 13 answers

What's so bad about wasting water? [more inside]
posted by ztdavis on Jun 13, 2007 - 41 answers

How can you get rid of medical waste in Toronto? [more inside]
posted by Drunken_munky on Jan 2, 2007 - 7 answers

Would it be feasible to dump nuclear waste into volcanoes? [more inside]
posted by PenDevil on Aug 16, 2006 - 13 answers

Recently I took a large quantity of household junk to my local council run landfill/refuse site. 3 weeks later these items, which I presumed would be destroyed and buried, are appearing at local auctions. [more inside]
posted by fire&wings on Jun 21, 2006 - 44 answers

If you had to warn people 10,000 years in the future to stay away from a site, how would you do it? [more inside]
posted by b1tr0t on May 5, 2006 - 42 answers

What can I do with a couple hundred pounds of sour oranges? [more inside]
posted by Optimus Chyme on Apr 30, 2006 - 14 answers

What are disposable airplane headphones made of? And on a vaguely related note, what are those disposable Swiffer cloths made of? [more inside]
posted by gompa on Jan 8, 2006 - 12 answers

What do I do with all this plastic? [more inside]
posted by knave on Dec 5, 2005 - 8 answers

watersalvagefilter: Ideas to save water from an inevitable shower.. [more inside]
posted by jwhittlestone on Nov 2, 2005 - 10 answers

How can I break out of my 27-year-long habit of procrastination? I'm looking for tips to help me mentally as well as specific tools or methods that will help me manage my time better -- especially at work. [more inside]
posted by croutonsupafreak on Oct 5, 2005 - 35 answers

I've gotten into the habit of wrapping meat and veggies together in foil and baking the whole parcel. Delicious and very easy. But I feel guilty about using so much foil. Is there an alternative technique? I don't mind having to wash something up to avoid wastage.
posted by sid on Jul 7, 2005 - 16 answers

I have a Labrador retriever and a fairly small fenced in back yard. Is there any way to get rid of the bare spots and brown patches where he urinates? [more inside]
posted by aspenbaloo on May 9, 2005 - 10 answers

One of the few repairs that needs to be performed on our next apartment is a leaky bathtub faucet. Not mere drips: a constant steady stream of water is wasted. If they are unwilling to fix this leak, would I be silly not to take this otherwise perfect apartment? How guilty should I feel about so much water wastage? [more inside]
posted by skryche on May 2, 2005 - 12 answers

How does one properly dispose of a small, single-use propane cylinder in New York City? [more inside]
posted by Oddly on Apr 18, 2005 - 10 answers

WASTEfilter: I'm trying to set up a WASTE network with my buddy, and we can't seem to get it to work at all. I'm running the client on OS X, and he's using Windows. We've sent each other our keys, but we can't seem to get the two to communicate. I can't really find any good sources of info for WASTE on the Mac, does anyone know if it works?
posted by hughbot on Jan 13, 2005 - 5 answers