Heathrow Airport decides to recycle its food waste into fertilizer
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.
Marquetry boxes made from recycled circuit boards are not just for geeks
Recyclable Eco Polo shirts made from recycled plastic and eco-charcoal by Cintas
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.
Convert old tires into classy sink surfaces with RUBBiSH
Japanese machine converts plastic into oil, a recycling marvel
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. i-Mego Earth Series made of recycled materials and uses eco-friendly materials for packaging
Trash cans made from recycled Cheetos bags and diapers
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. Clothing Extruder, the clothing recycling machine
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. Celebrity faces on a canvas, made from recycled trash, by Jason Mecier
Dispose off your chewing gum in a Gumdrop Bin and have it recycled into tires and toys
A recyclable do-it-yourself shopping trolley to lug around your stuff, the Move-It
Recycled lottery tickets turned into works of art
2 Roses Studio recycles computer components into geeky jewelry
The Motorola Grasp flaunts green with its recyclable body
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. 








