If you were told that a recycled desk would cost you $5000, then you would obviously think we are crazy or kidding. But that’s no ordinary desk. The creative folks from Reestore have once again conjured up recycling innovation with aviation trash to create a desk out of an old airplane wing. Dubbed Deborah, it looks unusual for an office desk, but the appeal of setting your files on an old Boeing 747 wing is an alluring prospect indeed.

Initially crafted for business tycoon Theo Paphitis, Reestore is now going commercial with this expensive, yet exclusive desk. Supported by stainless steel legs and topped with toughened glass, the desk measures in at 2100mm x 1000mm x 900mm.

Recycle and reuse is a concept that is not very popular in the aviation industry and that is one of the reasons why it gets plenty of slack. I guess Reestore is giving them a whole new way of reducing waste and making some profits too! [via Inhabitat]

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It is one thing to go to bed after having a glass or two of the fine French wine that comes from the famous French chateau, but it is altogether a different experience to sleep in a wine cask that once stored this intoxicating drink. The De Vrouwe van Stavoren Hotel in Netherlands has converted four of the giant old wine casks into four simple yet stunning rooms that are spacious enough to house a couple.

The rooms look spacious for a simple hotel room and have all the basic facilities that you expect to find in a simple hotel room.

Crafted from the salvaged wine casks, spacious and with all the basic facilities that you expect to find in a simple hotel room, this must be a great experience no matter if you love French wines or not. For the holiday season each of these wooden wonders will cost you from €74 to €119 a night, but off-season you can get a deal for as little as €18 a night!

Apart from a great example of recycle and reuse, the De Vrouwe van Stavoren hotel also manages to add some extra flavor to your trip to the Netherlands! [via Treehugger]

So what if the plastic bags decomposed in just 3 months. An editor at the Asahi Shimbun opined that plastic shopping bags are NOT the biggest problem. Some 30 billion shopping bags that weigh several hundreds of thousands of tons are NOT the problem.

A survey by this editor revealed -

1. 83% of those who get plastic bags reuse (recycle?) them as liners for their kitchen garbage cans.

2. 80% also used the plastic bags to line their waste baskets.

3. 43% find yet other ways to reuse the little buggers.

5. A mere 0.8% just threw them away.

In the absence of plastic bags for this purpose, most said they would buy garbage bags for the same purpose or reuse newspaper.

Not a few people reused the plastic bags when they went shopping. Many are opting to buy a lot of the cheap plastic bags instead of the more costly heavy plastic bags. In other words…collecting money for plastic bags at the supermarket is just another way to, well, make money. The bags are already being reused, recycled. What’s the big deal?