Tag: Recycled Consumer Goods
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How to Make a Solar Water Heater from Water Bottles for $20
This DIY water heater uses simple materials and is great for camping.
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Hollow Surfboard Is Made from Broken Skateboards
A Finnish designer has made a working surfboard from broken skateboards.
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Portable iPhone Speaker Is Made from Recycled Paper
The eco-amp is a simple iPhone amplifier made from recycled materials, great for music on the move.
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AirHotel is a Treehouse Hotel Room in the Sky
These hotel rooms hang from trees. Do you have better dreams in them?
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Colorful, Comfy Bench Is Made from Trashed Textiles
This odd-looking bench is stuffed with shredded textile leftovers.
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New Shwopping Campaign at Marks & Spencer to Recycle Clothes and Save Landfills
Shopping plus swapping equals shwopping, sort of. Donate old clothes and help OXFAM and landfill sites.
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Straw Wars is a Campaign to Ban the Use of Straws in London's Restaurants
No straws in restaurants? MacDonalds are you listening?
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Homemade Chicken Coop with Beer Can Shingles Was Built in 10 Hours for $40
A chicken coop in North Carolina shows just how much you can do with discarded building materials.
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The Week in Pictures: Adding Land to Manhattan, Dumpster Photography, and More
A bold plan calls for creating more land in NYC, it would be "Lower Lower Manhattan." Plus garbage men turn dumpsters into pinhole cameras, bathing gets classy, and more.
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Broken Computers Come Alive as Robotic Animals
Artist turns old typewriters, cameras, modern printers and computers into birds, goats, squid, dinosaurs and more.
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The Week in Pictures: The Freaky Future of City Driving, "Supertrees" Take over Singapore, and More
The lightweight Renault Twizy could shake up the automotive world, 18 biometric "supertrees" are turning Singapore into a lively forest, and more.
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Castor Design Recycles Old Bank Marble Into New Deadstock Line
The Canadian designers are old pros at mixing humour and style.
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Electric Milk Trucks Still Working in Jolly Old England
Here's a relic from another life: the electric milk truck, or float as the British call them.
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Deadly Recycling. How Kids in Laos Gather Explosive War Scrap to Put to Use.
Everyday, children and adults wander into the countryside to find metal, like bomblets and weapons from the second Indochina war, to sell as scrap metal or souvenirs to tourists, or to turn into useful objects, only if they don't explode beforehand.
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Lucirmás Turns Single Wine Bottles into 3-Piece Table Sets
Spanish company Lucirmás debuts Pure-Bottle, a fully recycled and recyclable table set which consists of a glass, lantern and spoon.
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French Beach Furniture is Retro and Recyclable
Don't these just make you feel the heat of le soleil on a French beach?
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iPhone Docks Built from Vintage Upcycled Cameras
A photography fanatic creates beautiful iPhone docks as a homage to old cameras.
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The Week in Pictures: Rolling Homes, a Self-Destructing Fountain, and More
In 1934, rolling homes were proposed, to make life more mobile than ever. Plus, a cardboard mockup of Rome's Trevi Fountain will be destroyed by nature, trash sculptures make wild shadows, and more.
