Now everyone’s building robots from cartoon shows using recycled stuff. The last time we heard of one, it happened to be a 32-foot Transformer made from a scrapped truck who probably might busy be fighting of the Decepticons by now. This time around, it’s not all that tall, though absolutely unique and creative, a 10-foot tall Gundam robot made from runners. If you haven’t heard of runners before, these are those pieces of plastic that hold all the parts of your little Gundam together before you build them. This RX-78-2 Gundam isn’t full scale and certainly won’t walk around, though the effort and thought put into it is indeed impressive. The maker probably didn’t want to see his Gundam packaging go waste, so he just collected it all and came up with this marvelous piece. Taking around 250 man-hours of work, this recycled Gundam sure brings a smile on our faces!

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Ever wondered where all that waste food from your airplane and the airport lands up? Mostly landfills, though waste food from the Heathrow airport will now serve a much better purpose. Waste like coffee grinds, potato peelings, egg shells and chicken bones that usually are thrown away from kitchens that prepare and serve food to around 180,000 passengers at Heathrow everyday, collected from all the cafés and restaurants out there. All this will then be bundled up and sent to a recycling factory of Vertal in Mitcham, South London. After a 72 hour grueling process, all this waste is converted into a nutrient-rich fertilizer that will then be used on local farms.

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At first sight, you’d probably think this one came straight out of a Middle Eastern palace belonging to some century old Emperor. Think again. It barely ever found its place in a palace before. Instead, these marquetry boxes were made from old circuit boards. Designer Theo Kamecke based in New York came up with some of these jaw dropping beautiful pieces of art that under normal circumstances would usually be made using contrasting strips of fine wood veneer for the design. Instead of using wood, Theo used the circuit board’s metal to create patterns. Symmetrically designed, these boxes are a much better way to recycle circuit boards, preventing them from meeting their doom in landfills.

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The clothes we wear today and pull of racks while shopping will be very unlike the ones we have in future. Future clothing will be as green as ever and recyclable too! Take Cintas’ new recyclable uniforms. These are made out of recycled plastic bottles and eco-charcoal, derivatives of coconut shells and nano-bamboo particles. The clothes once used, can be sent back for recycling. Known as the Eco Polo, these unisex shirts are certified to bluesign standards and half its recycled polyester is made from the plastic bottles while the other half from eco-charcoal. The shirts dry quickly, need no ironing, are mildew-proof and can bare heat too.

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While passing by the old junk yard, what do you really see when you look at the used and worn out tires? You think junk, but the brilliant minds think other wise. Like those Vancouver saw a soccer field, Minarc see a sink top instead. And not only they make this vision into a usable reality, but they also managed to pick up an R+D Award for it from Architect Magazine. Called as RUBBiSH, this sink is created from recycled rubber tires.

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Now we see plastic sprawled all over landfills, dumped there by the million trucks that carry it all from our waste bins everyday. It’s no wonder we just hate plastic, when it needs to be disposed off. If not recycled properly, plastic can act as an added danger to our already degrading environment. The Japanese however have come up with a novel way to recycle plastic, converting it back into a much needed resource, oil. A machine used converts 1kg of plastic into 1liter of oil. This oil can be used to create gasoline, kerosene and diesel too.

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Music has never sounded better from a pair of headphones before, and certainly not greener. Make way for thee i-Mego, eco-friendly and limited edition headphones that make sure you keep the music playing and will do little harm to the environment as compared to that expensive pair made of some pretty polluting materials that you’ve been using all this while. Anyways, the i-Mego will show up at the IFA 2010 in Berlin shortly. The The Earth Series version of the headphones is uses some pretty eco-friendly materials and is packed in an eco-friendly way too. It boasts full bodied bass tones and detailed mids and higher notes, making sure those tracks of yours sound as crisp and clear as crystal.

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What’s similar in that bag of Cheetos you’ve just finished and your younger sister’s diaper? The things they are recycled into! Cheetos bags and diapers are being recycled, and turned into trashcans these days. Based in New Jersey, the company TerraCycle along with Pioneer Plastics USA uses the junk to make the trash cans, out of recycled polypropylene. Bags were collected by TerraCycle’s Chip Bag Brigade and transformed into trash cans. 80% is made from the Cheetos bags while elastic rubber trimmings are used to for the production of the remaining 20% of the trashcans components. Around 500 chip bags are used to make a single trash can. This production of trash cans helps reduce around 40% of the carbon footprint that would actually be stamped, had virgin plastic be used instead.

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Bored of that fading old t-shirt of yours? Planning on a new wardrobe? An entry at the Electrolux 2010 Design Competition could be the solution of your problems, a machine that recycles your old clothes for new ones! Designer Liz McCarter came up with the Clothing Extruder, wherein you can recycle all your clothes, without the need to wash, dry, or store. Using a special fabric, a user can design into any type of clothing he or she wishes to use. The clothing is inserted into a slot in the machine after use. It is then recycled back into the original base fabric, all ready to be designed into something new. Alright maybe this sounds amazing at first. On a second thought, this certainly would leave clothing retail stores dry, and the whole concept of “Let’s shop!” wasted. It seems pretty unrealistic too.

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A three dimensional portrait of a celebrity gets better when the artist puts away his paints and brushes and uses recycled junk to create it instead. Well, Jason Mecier came up with a few celebrity faces, created completely out of recycled trash, including remote controls, electronic boards, cellphones and cables too! Besides just portraying faces, some of these works of art are made out of the junk sent by the celebrities themselves. moldy slippers, anti-itch creams and dirty laundry, pills, junk food, broken sunglasses, gum wrappers, jewelry and shoes and just about anything that you’d find in a trash can has been used up artistically for these beautiful creations. Famous faces like Lady Gaga, Andy Warhol, Pink, Donald Trump, The White Stripes and a lot more have been chiseled out of trash.

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We’ve stuck them under classroom desks and bus seats. We’ve found some stuck in our hair and have blown bubbles large enough that explode and stick to our faces. Yes, we’re talking about those little pieces of gum the whole world munches upon, chewing gum. Well, disposing of chewing gum isn’t going to be such a difficult task anymore in Hereford. No more will you find gum below your shoes or anywhere else, left behind by someone. Chewing gum will now be used to produce car tires and toys, and an initiative to be held between 18th August and 15th September will encourage people to do just that. And if people fail to do so, and simply spit it out, they could face a fine of as much as £80. Gumdrop Bins have been placed around everywhere, so that you can drop in your gum for it to be recycled.

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Here’s an innovative design, that’s green, recyclable, and can pack up all your tidbits to lug around, the Move-It kit. This one’s a do-it-yourself kit, and works great on trips to the supermarket, or just every time you walk out of a shop. Durable and light, the Move-It kit uses self-adhesive cardboard parts, going all Transformers like, and changing from into a makeshift trolley, from what would otherwise be a useless piece of cardboard. Designer David Graham made sure putting this one together isn’t much of a task either, with the parts simply fitting in. and if you’re skeptical as to just how much a cardboard trolley can carry, quit thinking in the single digits. This one hauls a sweet 20kg.

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How many times have you dreamed of going rich overnight and have wound up buying a lottery ticket? How many times have you actually won anything? And just how many times have you torn away the ticket in frustration and tossed it away? Well, it has probably happened before, with tickets being tossed into bins every time the lucky draw is called out. Fetch all those lottery tickets, quit dreaming about the riches, use a bit of innovation and “zap!”, you have yourself a piece of art! Artist duo, Ghost of a Dream have come up with pieces of art, all made from discarded lottery tickets. These include the Dream vacation 2008, a pair of palm trees and a speaker to remind you of those holiday resorts, an eagle in the “This Is It” collection, the “Dream Car”, a Hummer look-alike made from tickets and lots more. The duo has also created the “Dream Home”, with walls and furnishings made from tickets.

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If you love jewelry and want to make a style statement while ensuring that it is high on tech-quotient too, then southern California based jewelry studio 2Roses, has just the thing you need! While some are fairly decent, some are outright ridiculous! Their latest range of products called the eclectic jewelry has been crafted out of recycled computer components. The creative designs are a collaborative effort between Corliss Rose and lapidiary John Lemieux Rose, which have been created using unconventional objects like string, glass, bottle caps and buttons.

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Grasping this phone sure is a green experience. The Motorola Grasp is eco-friendly and incorporates a cover that is as eco-friendly as a phones body can be. The Motorola Grasp has a body that is BFR and PCV free. This makes it 100% recyclable, meaning that when the time for disposal dawns, this one wont end up waiting to decompose in a landfill for a thousand years. Instead, it can be sent away for recycling! The phone features a 2.2-inch, 220 X 176 QCIF+ 65K TFT display, QWERTY keypad, a 1.3MP camera with fixed focus and digital zoom and supports EVDO networks. This one also has an internal memory expandable up to 8GB.

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