Archive for the ‘recycled consumer goods’ Category

Should Terracycle Partner with Tobacco Butts?

published March 3, 2010 and has No Comments

TerraCycle's goal is singular: To solve the problem of waste. We have not taken positions on the products that we collect, similar to how recycling companies accept products of any brand that fit their capacity to recycle. But here's where it gets interesting—We've been approached by a tobacco company to collect and turn cigarette butts into new eco-friendly products. ...

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Guy Builds Massive House with Recycled Glass Bottles, Teaches you How to Do It (Video)

published March 3, 2010 and has No Comments

Photo: Lauri TG . If you liked the house made with plastic bottles in Parque Iguazu , this one will blow you away. Tito Ingenieri , a character from a city called Quilmes, about an hour south from Buenos Aires, has built a massive home made entirely from beer bottles and trash. And by massive, we mean...... Read the ...

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Recycled Juice Boxes Become Biomorphic Lamp

published March 1, 2010 and has No Comments

Images: Loxolop Inspired by origami and biomorphism, Dutch artist Ebére Groenouwe created the Loxolop hanging lamp. Made of waste paper from a juice-carton factory (which means it's readily recyclable), the Loxolop ships in a tidy little package, its two pieces assembled by the user on arrival. We've seen other illuminative flatpack artifacts such as the laser-cut 3D lamp from ...

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Families Living and Loving Green Alternative Life Styles

published February 9, 2010 and has No Comments

Image from Daily Mail With all the best intentions, most of us don't have the nerve to really change our life style dramatically. We do as much as we can within the limitations of our busy lives, but haven't the true grit to go that extra mile. Here are 3 inspirational stories of young families that are taking things ...

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Amazing House Made Entirely of Plastic Bottles from Argentina (Photos)

published February 3, 2010 and has No Comments

Photos: Courtesy of house owners. At Puerto Iguazu, near the frontier between Argentina and Brazil, lies this amazing house made entirely with recycled materials. Made by a local family, its walls have over 1200 PET bottles and its ceiling, more than 1300 Tetra Pack cartons. Find out more and see more pics inside.... Read the full story on TreeHugger ...

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Recycling Artist Creates Portraits from Trash

published January 17, 2010 and has No Comments

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 normally destined for the landfill has always been a creative process, but in the hands of a skilled artist, the practice can result ...

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Sortify - It’s the Spotify of the Trash Set for Recycle-Loving Types

published January 13, 2010 and has No Comments

Photo via Sortify and F. Slivka Lederer. Skype was a Swedish invention, ditto Spotify . So know there's Swedish Sortify, which will hopefully sweep the trash world and show up on every city street soon. For what is more truly irritating to a city street pedestrian type than a recyclable paper or plastic item in hand and nowhere to ...

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Where New York’s Unsold Clothing Is Supposed To Go

published January 11, 2010 and has No Comments

Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times Last week Jim Dwyer of the New York Times wrote about destroyed clothing found behind the H&M and Walmart, and their subsequent promise never to do this again. Walmart sent us a press release: "Recently we were informed that several bags of samples were found on 35th Street in Manhattan, left by a ...

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More Ways to Recycle Plastic: Make a Quilt Square

published January 11, 2010 and has No Comments

Image from Leave No Plastic Behind: Amy Chovnick and 4H Quilts are as American as apple pie. Pioneer women made them out of scraps of leftover and unwanted bits of fabric out of necessity, but they are also an art form with wonderful patterns. Lately they have become huge communal projects, with people contributing squares on a particular theme ...

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Recycled-Pen Chandelier Illuminates Plastic History

published January 10, 2010 and has No Comments

The clear polystyrene barrels of 347 Bic pens let the light shine through. Photo via the Science Museum . Crafted by Spanish design company enPieza "as a tribute to a classic plastic design," this limited-edition chandelier on display at the Science Museum is London is equally a testament to clever recycling -- it's made from 347 polystyrene Bic Cristal ...

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