8 Benefits of Banana Skin

1. Purify Water

According to a study in the journal Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, a banana peel can filter out heavy metals, especially lead (Pb) and copper (Cu). Chop the banana peel into small pieces and then inserted into the contaminated water. Chopped banana peels can dugunakan up to 11 times without losing its ability to absorb heavy metals.

2. Accelerating Wound Healing

Wounds that had started to dry itchy skin because it closed off the hardened flakes. Fragments that can be eliminated more quickly simply by rubbing a banana peel, because it will react with the enzymes contained therein.

3. Relieves Pain

Vegetable oils contained in the banana skin has certain compounds which merit as a pain reliever. Attach the banana skin is clean and still fresh to relieve pain in severe burns or scratches.

4. Fertile soil

Not only for the compost mix, banana peels can be directly dumped into the ground just to fertilize plants in the vicinity. Banana peel contains potassium which is needed in plant growth.

5. Shoe polish

No need to panic if one day run out of shoe polish, provided there are bananas in the fridge. Peel biuahnya, then use its skin for leather shoe polish to make it look shiny like it had been polished.

6. Treating Warts

Banana peel is believed to have antiviral activity, so many are using it to drive out the warts of the skin surface. How to put a banana peel, then arrested with plaster and allowed to heal by itself.

7. Treating Itching

Itching from insect bites or mild allergies can be overcome with a banana skin. The way is to stick it on the surface of the skin that feels itchy.

8. Burnish Ornamental Plants

Various kind of anthurium plants, waves of love and the like would be more interesting if the leaves look shiny green. Use the inside of banana skin texture is soft to polish it, then leaves it will be shiny and more durable.

10 unique ideas to prevent global warming

1. Hotels that offer free food that produces electricity.

Crown Plaza Hotel in Copenhagen, Denmark, offering free food to every guest who is able to produce electricity for the hotel through a distinguished bike attached to the generator. Guests must produce at least 10 watts of electricity - or about 15 minutes of cycling, they then would be given food vouchers worth $ 36.

2. Disco Pub Obtaining Electricity generated by the people who danced on the dance floor

All lights blinking and distinguished speakers thumping dance club in great need of electricity consumption besar.Sebuah Bar in London, has a unique idea to generate electricity by way of the floor is equipped with springs that when the dancers stand on, can produce electric current to be stored in batteries and used to offset electric load several clubs. Club owner, Andrew Charalambous, said his dance floor can now power 60 percent of these unique ideas.

3. Offering a discount to customers who want to use a bicycle

A brothel in Berlin came up with innovative ways to attract customers during the economic crisis, by doing something to help avoid climate change at the same time. They offer discounts to customers who arrive by bicycle. By Thomas Goetz, brothel owners 'Maison d'envie', customers who arrive by bicycle or using public transport to get € 5 (£ 4.30) discount from the usual € 70 (£ 60) Cost for 45 minutes persesi

4. The company created a desktop printer that does not use ink or paper

Who says a printer by using the paper to print a document? Unlike conventional printers, PrePeat adopt thermal head to print on special plastic sheets buatan.PrePeat also claimed by the manufacturers, each one sheet of paper can be used up to 1000 times so you would reduce spending on paper usage.

5. University with the construction of green roofs as a gathering place for students

Green design is a very popular trend in modern architecture, School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University in Singapura.Memiliki roof which serves as an informal meeting room with the idea of linear, this roof creates an open space, protecting the building, cooling the surrounding air and accommodate rainwater for landscape irrigation.

6. Designers created a sink that uses the waste water for watering plants

Sink which is made by a young designer from Montreal, Jean-Michel Gauvreau is made of concrete, which has a channel that allows water used when washing your hands can flow directly into a water-tanaman.Sehingga every wasted not redundant because it can be used for watering the plants which are next to them.

7. Bath tool which can save water by automatically

20% of our total domestic energy use is from the hot water for bathing and mandi.Dengan more than 6 times the energy use of domestic lighting, designer Tommaso Colia come with the design of environmentally friendly toiletries, bath appliance has dirancsang to issue a limited water, then if you spend the time to shower for too long, then it will stop the water out automatically.

8. Designers created a functioning lamp teach young children how to save energy

Teaching the importance of energy conservation is the goal of the design team which is shaped like a ghost Holley.Lampu gives visualization to the children about how much energy that already used by leaving the lights on too long, when first turned on this light is green and smiling, If lamp allowed for more than four hours, he will change color to yellow and looks surprised, and if you dare to leave the lamp for more than eight hours, the lights will turn red tantrum, complete with frowny mouth and angry eyes.

9. The company created the staples to reduce pollution staples

Staples should be so bad for the environment so the company decided to make a staple-free stapler. This product promises to make environmentally friendly collation. Instead of using a thin metal planet, staple-free stapler "cut a small piece of paper and use the strips to stitch up to five pieces of paper together."

10. Designer who created the iPhone charger is powered by a hand grip

An idea that gives you a hand exercises by filling in your iPhone battery grip! The concept of this idea was designed by Mac Funamizu