Tag: Recycled Fashion - Page 2
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Hot Sand and Skill Turns Plastic Bottles into Jewelry at Sahrawi Refugee Camp (Photos)
This technique transforms used plastic bottles into beautiful jewelry by burying them into hot desert sand -- and the project creates a sustainable business for Saharawi refugees.
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Best of Green Readers' Choice: Living
What's the best vegetarian restaurant in New York? The best celebrity activist, artist using recycled materials, food website, and more? Vote for your picks here.
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EcoChic Design Award Challenges Chinese Fashion Designers to Face Local Problems
The sustainable fashion design competition is encouraging Asia’s emerging fashion designers to create mass-market clothing with minimal textile waste.
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Stunning Armour-Like Costumes Created From Ancient Chinese Ceramic Shards (Photos)
Chinese artist Li Xiaofeng recycles old Chinese ceramics into something else completely.
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Despite a Shady Reputation, the Gold Buying Industry Beats Mining
While the consumer message is “Sell your gold for cash, fast!”, the gold buying industry is essentially reusing or recycling this precious metal.
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SustainU Clothing Hopes This Year's College Wide Clothing Drive Will Be Bigger Than Ever
Recycled t-shirt producer, Sustain U announces the One Shirt Challenge, the nation's largest campus run clothing drive.
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Bow Ties Made of Recycled Rubbish for the Modern Man (Photos)
This man has a unique recycled bow tie to match every occasion.
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From Weapons to Cufflinks: Jewelry Made From Africa's Decomissioned Rifles
Aiming to promote peace and prosperity in Africa, one company is diverting deadly AK47s by recycling them into carefully crafted accessories for men and women.
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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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Modern and Unusual Lamps Made From Plastic Bottles
Artist Sarah Turner puts a fashionable spin to shapely light shades.
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Rocketeer Rocket Pack from Trash
If you need a last minute Halloween costume, you could rummage through your recycling and find just what you need!
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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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Fashion Collection Biomimicks Snakeskin Using Recycled Woodchips
Fashion has often been role-cast as a wasteful industry, but we've seen how up-and-coming fashion designers are increasingly using discarded materials in sustainable ways to create stunning work.
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Repulsive Or Recycled? Dress Of 3,000 Yak Cow Nipples Sparks Outrage
If Lady Gaga's infamous meat dress wasn't enough to faze you, then Rachel Freire's collection of dresses made of yak cow nipples may do the trick.
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Recycled Paper Works Feature at Origin Craft Fair
This year's (unofficial) theme seems to be paper: everyone is using
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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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Heart-Warming Story From Japan: Tsunami Survivors Making New Livelihoods from Destroyed Fishing Nets
Six months after the devastating Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan, we've gotten word of a heart-warming project that has been turning the damaged tools of one trade into
