Sunday, April 26, 2015

Soda Bottle Mosquito Trap test




Always looking to reuse and avoid toxic chemical, we gave the soda bottle mosquito trap a try.

Here is the concept. Sugar and yeast combine together to attract mosquitoes.  The yeast creates carbon dioxide, the same gas we exhale, to attract the mosquito to bottle.  The mosquito flies down and gets trapped based on the design.

So here is our experience:

Some instructions state to cut the bottle in half but cutting the bottle at the taper is better because you don't want to put to much water into the bottle.  The mosquitoes won't be able to fly in.  Also, mosquitoes are present when it rains.  If you trap is outside and unsheltered it will fill with water rendering it useless.


We wrapped black tape on the bottle because mosquitoes are attracted to black, dark places.


The instructions tell you to place the trap away from where you normally spend time.  Otherwise you are attracting mosquitoes to where you are.  But for this test we placed the trap in a storage room that for some reason has tons of mosquitoes almost all year around.





After a couple of weeks, I emptied the trap into a clear plastic container to see what happened.


So, there are a few mosquito bodies floating around.  But not enough to consider this a success in any way.  Worse, a bee was in there too and that's bad.


Conclusion, this does not work well enough to waste your time.  Have you tried this?  Let us know how it went for you.

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Whole Foods Fort Lauderdale Reusable Bag Exchange Sunday, April 19, 2015, noon-3pm


Whole Foods Fort Lauderdale has been a great supporter of Trash to Treasure.  This Sunday, turn in your old reusable shopping bags for a Whole Foods Better Bag.  It is made from 80% recycled content.

The reusable bags you turn in will be washed and donated to T2T for use at the Center.

Here is Whole Foods' release:

Sunday, April 19, 2015
Recyclable Bag Exchange, noon-3pm 
FREE at our store entrance
Bring your old reusable bags and we will exchange them for new Better Bags at Whole Foods Market® Fort Lauderdale. Limit 5 Better Bags per household. We’ll clean the bags and then donate them to Trash 2 Treasure, a local non-profit that has a mission to locate clean, re-usable materials and redistribute these items as valuable educational and artistic resources. Whole Foods Market® Fort Lauderdale is located at 

See you there.

Recyclable Bag Exchange

Sunday, April 19, 2015




Recyclable Bag Exchange, noon-3 pm 


Bring your old reusable bags and they will exchange them for new Better Bags at Whole Foods Market® Fort Lauderdale. Limit 5 Better Bags per household. They’ll clean the bags and then donate them to Trash 2 Treasure, a local non-profit that has a mission to locate clean, re-usable materials and redistribute these items as valuable educational and artistic resources. Whole Foods Market® Fort Lauderdale is located at 2000 N. Federal Highway.