Pizza without doubt is an amazing way to satisfy that growling tummy of yours, dripping with cheese and meaty toppings. However, not many of us have stopped short to pay heed to just what happens to those cartons our 14” circle of joy comes in. Here’s when the Pi Pan project comes handy. These days, about three billion pizza boxes are tossed in dumping yards in the United States alone, causing a tremendous amount of wastage. The Pi Pan project basically projects the benefits of re-usable pizza containers. The project has come up with a lightweight circular tray made of BPA-free stainless steel that keeps your pizza hot inside, without singeing your fingers while working as an oven-friendly container too.
Mattel Inc., one of the largest manufacturers of toys in the world today, has decided to wipe itself clean of carbon footprints. And to set off with the same, Mattel will have 70% of its paper packaging composed of recycled material or sustainable fiber. Also, Mattel will focus on maximizing post-consumer recycled content and is looking to keep clean of virgin fiber from controversial sources. And that’s not all. The toy manufacturers are also looking planning to have 85% of its paper packaging be composed of recycled material or sustainable fiber by the end of 2015. We applaud Mattel Inc.’s efforts to go green, and hope this works as an inspiration for toy manufacturers around the globe.
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Now a compact disk might not be the ideal weight to lift to have those muscles of yours bulging and swelling. Though, when you come to think of it, most woman do use lighter weights than the guys in gyms, making designer Seung-il Kim’s concept pretty interesting and usable! Called the Health Green Up+, this one puts to use old CDs, which each weigh in at about 15 grams, bunched together to create light-weight dumbbells. The concept is indeed a great way to recycle old CDs, most of which collect dust in our homes having their lives ended miserably with the use of DVDs and flash drives.
Audiophiles have been familiar with the German soundmasters Sennheiser since the last 60 years. Now, ID graduate Matthew Lim has come up with a pretty interesting concept for the brand with the EcoVinyl. Basically a turntable-headphone made from sustainable materials, this concept was developed at the Art Center College of Design and could probably be the most environment-friendly way to digital-music! Made from density fiberboard, cork and aluminum, this one could cost about $350 if it ever did hit production lines.
With minimal carbon footprint, the EcoVinyl is made of 45% fiberboard, recyclable and biodegradable and seems to be a pretty interestingly eco-friendly way to play music out loud!
Living in slums isn’t a breeze, and for those who’re all too used to living with creature comforts today, understanding the plight of slum-dwellers isn’t all that easy. These poverty-stricken areas are more than often left unconnected to the grid, and given the fact that houses in such places are built packed close to each other, daylight is usually left out completely, with homes staying dark inside during the day time too. The Isang Litrong Liwanag (A liter of light) Project caught our fancy lately, given that it uses waste bottles, turning them into full-fledged light sources! By punching holes in metal-roofing-sheets and placing plastic bottles in the grove, these light sources are then fitted in place with sealant, filled with clean water and then bleach. When placed as part of slum-roofs, these let in natural light, and glow bright, bringing in light to the darkened-slum-homes!
Having poop to shelter your head from the elements hasn’t really been an option before, though Britain will now begin doing just that, with the opening of its newest recycling plant. The plant by Canadian firm Knowaste will recycle 36,000 tonnes of nappy waste to produce roof tiles. Britain generates half a million tonnes of waste from disposable nappies on a yearly basis with an average baby cycling through a good 6,000 nappies before finally figuring out how to use the toilet, with each nappy taking a whopping 500 years to decompose!
The plant is expected to help reduce at least 22,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions per year, almost as good as kicking 7,500 cars off UK roads!
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Designer Daniel Kurth hates wasting dead electronics. So much, that he transformed his deceased Apple TV into a fully functional clock! Using the recycled body of the Apple TV, Kurth put to use every part of the device into making the 1 Nixie Clock and added a bit more for the final effect, including a nixie controller board. Kurth also cleverly put to use the heavy duty tissue cable, making it both, a power cable as well as wall mount string for the 1 Nixie Clock. Also, this fully functional clock was pieced together completely by hand, and Kurth made sure to have the old Apple TV completely recycled!
Recycling can get pretty tricky to understand at times, and explaining it to kids gets harder than explaining those essential facts of life most of them end up learning at school. Though, with the world going to dumps today, literally, future generations need to be educated on the need for recycling and ways to save the environment before it finally perishes beyond repair. The Dr. R.E. Cycler robot does just that in a fun-filled way, assured to keep younger ones interested in recycling! With R.E. denoting “robotic environmentalist”, this one was specially designed by Florida Robotics to educate kids in regards to recycling.
Recycling can get pretty tricky to understand at times, and explaining it to kids gets harder than explaining those essential facts of life most of them end up learning at school. Though, with the world going to dumps today, literally, future generations need to be educated on the need for recycling and ways to save the environment before it finally perishes beyond repair. The Dr. R.E. Cycler robot does just that in a fun-filled way, assured to keep younger ones interested in recycling! With R.E. denoting “robotic environmentalist”, this one was specially designed by Florida Robotics to educate kids in regards to recycling.
Houseboats aren’t uncommon, and neither is living away from land! Rishi Sowa prefers living off-land on a home made from recycled plastic bottle though, and seems to have done a pretty neat job of it too! An ecological project unlike any we’ve ever seen before, Sowa’s home was made from recycled plastic bottles that could’ve, if not for the designer, ended up in dumping grounds, killing our environment with every passing hour. Made from a staggering 135,000 recycled plastic bottles and taking several years to build, this floating home has been playing residence for Sowa since the last three years!
