Tag: Reusability - Page 9
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Sweet! Sugar Cane Waste and Recycled Cardboard Become Flatpack Freefold Furniture
Freefold Furniture is, as the above video indicates, a versatile shelving system. But the system can also serves as partition, screen, plinth or bench. Made of Xanita X-board (more below), which is 97% post consumer waste paper, the Freefold system
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Designing for Re-use, The Life of Consumer Packaging (Book Review)
A coffee cup as a plant pot, coke cans for Halloween cape, a detergent bottle as worm harvester or washing tablet net bags for toy storage; these are all things people have done with the packaging they found in their daily lives. Reuse is often better
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Reusable Bottles: Glass Makes a Come Back
As a rule, I am not one of these greenies that gets overly excited about new reusable bottles. I have an old reusable bottle somewhere, and it occasionally gets used when I venture out of the house—but I've always been a
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Could this be the Perfect Water Bobble?
It certainly hits all the right marks: 100% recycled and recyclable, BPA and phthalate-free, made in the US, good-looking, and affordable. Self-filtering water bottles are becoming more popular (see our head-to-head comparison of several) and are a
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Free For Free. Yoink Costs Next To Nothing to Find Free Stuff
Yoink is new software that gives a triple scoop of that tasty treat: Free. It is a free iPhone application, which provides a free service geographically linking people who want to give away free stuff with those who want it.
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Recycling Artist Creates Portraits from Trash
With themes of environmentalism and climate change becoming increasingly popular in the art world, one artist in particular is putting eco-friendly philosophies to practice with portraits made entirely of unwanted objects. Recycling and reusing objects
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Wallpapered Dumpsters: A Sight for Sore Eyes?
There's nothing unsightlier than a graffiti emblazoned dumpster, filled to the brim with all manner of trash--a common sight in cities across a world which produces so much of the stuff. The griminess of the dumpster, for some, is
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Factory from Pink Floyd's Animals Has a Rockin' Past and a Green Future
There's no band in history with more iconic album covers than Pink Floyd, and there's perhaps no more iconic album cover than that of the band's 1977 album Animals. The photo, with that big inflatable pig soaring between the towers, has become
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Washington DC's Plastic Bag Tax Takes Effect This Week
The city government of Washington DC, beginning this month, will impose a tax of 5 cents per plastic bags for supermarket customers. City officials plan to use the increased revenue to combat pollution in a local river. According
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Scrap Art Rocks: Bang a (Recycled) Gong, Get It On
With the price of scrap metal in the dumper, ScrapArtsMusic has turned piles from dumpsters into green music. The discarded metal, accordion parts, artillery shells, and other junked items salvaged
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Dial Reusable Color for Street Art
A lot of people groan when the concept of graffiti comes up, the word "vandalism" lurking unsaid. It is true that many mono- or bichromatic tags are little better than dog piss in the hierarchy of artistic endeavors, and people who
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Baby on (Card)Board: Designer Creates Eco-Friendly Baby Seat
We've touted the great, green benifits of using furniture made from cardboard before, but Paper Tiger's baby seat is unique in that its advantage over traditional chairs goes beyond just being eco-friendly. Stuff made for growing
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Lofty Reuse: Green Apartments Where Bono and Bowie Went Gold
Tiles made of recycled skateboards create a kitchen sink backsplash, electric car charging are installed in each parking spot. There are also dual flush toilets and re-claimed
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Angels, Reindeers, Pigs and Christmas Trees; sustainable wood decoration by Lovi
more images below Matteria, good design+smart materials online store, suggest a spicy Christmas this year, without forgetting the environment. Apart from the gorgeous cork advent candle holder, the cosy Finnish red felt slippers, and giftbags to spoil
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Plastiki Launches Cool Toy Model of Plastic Bottle Boat
When I saw this tweet from @Plastiki this afternoon, "We've released the Plastiki toy [so proud!] and @joshspear has put it front page", I thought surely they haven't built a miniature version of the complex boat famously built
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The Betacup: Eliminating Paper Cup Wastage Through Collaborative Design
Photo courtesy of Betacup. Guest contributor Toby Daniels is an entrepreneur with 10 years experience in running businesses in digital media and marketing. Toby is the co-founder of ThinkSocial at the Paley Center for Media and co-founder and community
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White House Recycles Christmas Tree Ornaments
Last night the National Christmas Tree, a living Colorado blue spruce, was lit, so now the holiday season is official. And inside the White House, Michelle Obama unveiled the Blue Room Christmas
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Give Your Utility Light the LED Upgrade it Deserves
Milwaukee, maker of a wide range of (red and black) power tools, has begun selling an LED upgrade kit that fits many of its jobsite lighting products and "most other major power tool work lights." By popping out the old incandescent bulb and replacing
