Tag: Recycled Consumer Goods - Page 8
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Nightlights Made From Vintage Cameras
Finally, someone figures out what to do with these things, collecting in basements around the world
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Eastern European Prison Inmates Produce and Design an Eco-Conscious Fashion Line
Heavy Eco sells bags, t-shirts and accessories, all made with recycled or organic materials and designed and produced by inmates in Estonian prisons.
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Green Gift Guide: The Design Junkie
From pocket wall planters for a splash of flora in the house to bowls handmade by Indian artisans and a wine rack made from a 1908 railroad track, these gifts were selected with high design in mind.
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Upcycled Rubber Design Products; A Flip Flop Story (Photos)
Studio Schneemann, together with the Kenyan initiative Uniqueco, collect and turn wasted flip flops from the beach into colourful and squichy furniture and lighting.
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1,000 Recycled Amplifers Allow People To Speak Through This Huge "Speaker's Wall" (Video)
This artistic installation, made from 1,000 recycled speakers and a piece of the Berlin Wall, amplifies people's voices.
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Timberland Boots Don't Kick the Can
"Lost Bottle," a television ad for Timberland Earthkeepers boots and part of the company's Nature Needs Heroes campaign, was seen in the commercial break on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart last night. It shows a dog snatching a plastic bottle and
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21st Century Gargoyles Are Drawn on Found Paper and Decorated with Recycled Trash
These frightening gargoyle charcoal drawings are made on found paper and wood, and colored with repurposed garbage.
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Wallets Made from Old Billboards and Seat Belts Keep Your Cash Green
Stylish wallets, bags, laptop and iPad sleeves are made from billboard vinyl and old seat belts.
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Sweet! Apple iMacs Recycled Into Awesome "iMacquariums" (Photos)
Photos: iMacquarium website Electronic waste is a huge environmental issue that carries global impact. Though there are plenty of interesting e-waste recycling ideas out there, here is probably one of the most creative re-use strategies we've seen for
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How to Make Toy Air Ships, Ray Guns and Much More from Old Tin Cans
If you try to live sustainably, chances are you recycle the tin cans that once fed you soup or mints. But there are lots of good reasons not to, and the alternative is upcycling them yourself. We've featured lots of DIY
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Fast Company's iPad App Explores Best-Designed American Products
If you seek out products that are "Made in America," seek out this app. It's called the "United States of Design" and was created by the Fast Company magazine folks. I may have come across it
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Reused Tires Make a Squid-Like Playground for Refugee Children
When Go Play! announced a competition to design an innovative playground for 1,000 refugee children along the border of Thailand and Burma, Dutch designer AnneMarie van Splunter thought of old car tires. To
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One-of-a-Kind Birdhouses Made from Scrap Metal
Most people would look at an old copper fireplace coal bin -- if they bothered to notice it at all -- and see something ready for the junk heap. Brian Carlisle saw a birdhouse.
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Maker Faire NYC: Make Your Own Vegan Soap
I am one of three boys in my family; it's only now that we are all out of the house that I find the perfect solution for my parents' long struggle to keep clean and or seemingly self-multiplying toys from taking over the house: Feto
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Lativan Festival Boasts Zany Recycled Milk Carton Boat Race (Video)
Old milk cartons are often re-used for crafts, bird-feeders and other useful things, but a nutty festival in Lativa is taking it to a whole other level, where boats are made entirely of recycled milk cartons, and pitched against one
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Simple And Cute Vertical Garden With PET Bottle Tops Idea From Brazil
Brazilians are savvy in giving PET bottles second lives, turning them into everything from roof solar water heaters to zero electricity light bulbs and awesome vertical gardens.
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Turning Pull Tabs into Silk and Metal Purses
Flick your Bic and flip your tab -- again and again. When I lived in Mexico a while ago, two vendors had a stand in the Puebla zocalo where they refilled Bic lighters
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Dirty Diapers? Knowaste Will Turn Them Into Roofing Material
For those of us who wince every time a dirty diaper is discarded, take heart: Canadian company Knowaste can now transform those soiled, disposable nappies into roofing material. That's right, billions of
