Creating Works of Art from Car Exhaust! A startup company in India, Graviky Labs, has come up with a way to turn car emissions into ink. Just 45 minutes worth of car exhaust fumes can create 30 ml of ink, enough for one marker pen. A device developed by the MIT spin-off company traps car […]
Electronics Can Be Recycled Too! Wait! Before you close the door on all the Spring cleaning you’re doing, be sure to include those no longer used electronics taking up space in your home. The old mobile phones, computers, TVs, telephones, printing equipment, and audio and video devices can all be recycled. There are so many […]
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Time to Get Crafty Why Waste? Of the five Rs, (reduce, reuse, recycle, repurpose and refuse), recycling is the one we usually hear about the most. However, the most effective way to deal with waste is not to create it in the first place. By reusing an item, we can lessen the amount of waste […]
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5 More Products to Avoid (Updated) Back by popular demand, today we are featuring one of our most beloved blogs of 2016, “4 More Things You Should Avoid Bringing into Your Home.” As a special bonus, we’ve included a fifth item to beware of! View the updated list Are there other products you avoid bringing into […]
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Life’s Too Short for Anything Else Before we get started, I just want to be clear: as I discussed in a recent blog, mopping is one of my least favorite household chores. Why I Hate Mopping I have better things to do with my time. With all that dirty water being redeposited, how do I […]
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2017 Leadership Conference Movement Booth Recap Most days, you can find Norwex Movement by looking for us online. But recently, Norwex Movement made a special live appearance at Norwex’s 2017 Leadership Conference, where the company’s independent sales Consultant Leaders gathered for recognition, to see and touch our newest products, and discover how to grow their […]
Reduce, Reuse, REPAIR—Another “R” Word Makes the List! All over the world, people are being brought together through brokenness. Broken alarm clocks, broken blowdryers, scissors in need of sharpening and elastic waistbands that have come loose or lost their stretch—all these things and more are finding new life at community fix-it events known as Repair […]
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NorwexMovement.com End-of-Year Recap Norwex Movement has witnessed exciting progress toward the solution of some of our planet’s most challenging problems over the last 12 months! 2016 at a Glance Here’s a quick peek at some of our top environmental blogs of the year: 1 In the United States, the FDA banned 19 ingredients, including triclosan […]
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The Votes Are In! Thank you to everyone who recently voted for our Norwex Movement blog of the year! The ballots have been tallied, and we’re pleased to announce our most popular blogs of 2016 (drumroll, please) . . . 7 Consumer Items Banned Around the World Use this attention-getting infographic from QuidCorner to help […]
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The Best of Both Worlds Did you know that Norway is one of the world’s leading exporters of crude oil? Did you also know that this beautiful country is considered one of the top 20 “greenest”, most eco-friendly countries of 2016? These two facts may seem to be in contrast to each other, but they’re […]
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