Recycling
Old Fishing Baskets turn Beautiful Pendant Lamps
This year at the ICFF, Tucker Robbins showcased one of the eye catching designs he created. Beautiful pendant lamps crafted from repurposed fishing baskets offered an amazing show. Significant was the fact that these lamps were made from thrown away materials. Tucker Robbins uses disused fishing baskets made by local, craftspeople in Sulawesi, Indonesia. These baskets are then given a new ...
Old Bikes Recycled to Make Innovative Furniture Designs
The world has understood the importance of recycling to a large extent. Gilbert Vanden Heuvel, a designer magician from Canada, with his skills is now going a step further by converting old bike parts to eye-catching, environmentally-friendly interior furnishings. At the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) in New York last weekend, he showed off an exclusive range of furniture designs and ...
REPREVE-Based Graduation Gowns Made from Recycled Plastic
How do you make your graduation greener? Learn how from Unifi, Inc and Herff Jones! The two have teamed up to make graduation greener with Renew Graduation gowns, made with REPREVE recycled fiber. The gowns made with REPREVE recycled fiber will be reaching 440,000 students by the end of 2013 graduation season. Significant enough is the fact that more than 12.7 million ...
Bicycles Made From Dumped Old Cars are Awesome
Bicycled, a new company from Lola Madrid is doing something different. The company is building bikes from junked cars. Every product from Bicycled is based on consumer insight. Though the company does not have a special product development department, its products are created by talented creative personnel. Every Bicycled bike is made from real car parts and therefore two similar bikes are ...
Toyota to Recycle Car Batteries into Energy Management Systems
Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) has recently announced its plans to recycle old NiMH (Nickel-Metal Hybrid) batteries from their hybrid cars. The batteries will be recycled into energy management systems. The venture will start from April and aims for the more effective use of resources used in batteries. The recycled systems will be sold via TMC's energy business company, Toyota Turbine and ...
Artist Creates TV from 625 Remote Controls
Normally, we think remote controls as gadgets to surf through channels or control a television set. But how about a TV made fully out of remote controls? Don’t think that it is impossible. An artist named Chris Shen has proved it is indeed possible. Shen tried to reverse the function of a remote control to a television. For this, he collected ...
Old Airplane Transformed into Kindergarten
Do you want to see one of the coolest classrooms in this world? Come to Georgia. Gari Chapidze, rector of the Institute of Georgian-Ukrainian Social Relations, has turned an old Yak-42 airplane into a kindergarten classroom. He bought a working Yakovlev Yak-42 airplane from Georgian Airways and made it a beautiful kindergarten for the kids to play. After the purchase for ...
Levis Jeans Made Out of Plastic Bottles
You will be surprised to know that Levi Strauss & Co is slowly expanding their business world to recycling materials. The Levi’s brand has recently introduced their new denim line, which will be available worldwide, incorporating post-consumer recycling waste including brown beer bottles, green soda bottles, clear water bottles, and black food trays. The recycling materials are collected from municipal ...
Old Tires Recycled to Give Shape to Outdoor Furniture
We have seen old useless tires end up in the rivers, backyards and dustbins, and thus creating pollution and environmental hazards. The main obstruction in recycling the tires is that it is very hard to recycle. Worry not. Furniture designer Rene Olivier has come up with a creative way to recycle old tires into useful seating options. Olivier was recently selected ...
Old School Bus Turns Beautiful Home
If you plan to build a house, you may have to undergo many hectic tasks like purchasing land, signing papers and paying utility bills, and all these appear to be too much trouble. Do you think that turning an unused bus into a sweet new home can be a better idea? That's what wpi Creative did with this old rickety ...