Tag: Recycling
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The milk crate gets a makeover by Combo Colab
They turn the classic box into a modular furniture system at the Design Mart at ICFF
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The Upcycle House goes beyond recycling
The architects claim it's " the first house build only from upcycled and environmentally sustainable materials". Is it?
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Stylish apartments built from stonecutting town's wasted material (Video)
Shortlisted for the 2013 Aga Khan Awards, this elegant building makes good use of wasted stone generated from a town's large stonecutting industry.
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Six ways that music festivals can reduce their impact
From the substantial to the symbolic, music festivals around the world are finding ways to get a little greener.
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Oslo runs out of garbage, imports it from rest of the world
Oslo, the capital of Norway, has a strange garbage problem. Too much? No, not enough.
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10 tips to make every day Earth Day
We can do lists too; here are some of the simple things you can do that do not involve spending money and buying stuff.
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Don't malign the millenials; The kids are alright
An Earth Day survey is being used to attack millenials as green slackers and pat the boomers on the back. That's not what the data say.
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Happy Earth Day! Don't Recycle.
When it comes to electronics, recycling should be the final resort.
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Coffee pod greenwashing comes to America with Illy and Terracycle
It's a new low in phoney feel-good environmentalism as one-shot plastic pods are shipped around the country and downcycled.
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DIY: How to tell if a pallet is safe to re-use
Find how to decipher what's stamped on your pallet to see if it's safe or not for your project.
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Junkyard car gets resurrected as bike with a mission (video)
Thanks to a creative project underway in Portugal, one retired old clunker has been given a chance to make amends for its polluting past life -- by being resurrected as a bicycle.
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Teachbox puts pop-out puzzles for kids on disaster relief supply boxes
The cardboard box has always been the quintesential toy for kids. With this creative design, it also becomes a puzzle and teaching tool.
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Recycled Orchestra turns trash into music and despair into hope in Paraguayan slums
When a passionate teacher begins music classes in a barrio built on a landfill, the need for more instruments for his students led to an incredibly inspiring story - and one you can help write.
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Inspired TreeHugger reader builds stair out of milk crates
A reader looks at the design of a stair we showed last year and builds his own.
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Improve your Wi-Fi signal using a soda can
In 6 simple steps, you can be browsing the web with more ease, and without needing new devices.
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Solar cells made from trees are easily recyclable
The cells easily seperate apart for recycling by being submerged in room temperature water.
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Old 8-storey tall grain silos re-adapted for ice climbing
Thanks to a bit of creative reuse, these icons of the Midwest have been converted into challenging ice climbing walls for beginners and seasoned climbers alike.
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Recycling 2.0, molecular sorting to scavenge raw materials from wastes
With precious resources increasingly trapped in a complex matrix of different materials, molecular sorting offers hope for recycling.
