Category Archives: Recycle
Visitors to the Miami Beach have had question marks drawn all over their faces as they stepped around a load of giant pink snails recently. No, it isn’t the Return of the Snails or anything similar. These plastic snails were put into place by the REgeneration Art Project to simply spread a green message and remind us all of the need for recycling. The snail was chosen over all the animals from the eco-system to portray the message since it carries its home on its back, with the shell reminding us of a spiral similar to a human ear and the “@” symbol, also called “snail” in Italian reminding us of technology. 45 in all, these snails were created from recycled plastics with minimal carbon footprint.
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We all know that computers are man’s great invention after cheese. But the aftermath of the products is what always causes concern in the more eco-friendly folk. If a second hand buyer does not find the system appealing then what happens of it? Designer Sarah Frost though out of the box – literally. She thought, why not use the left over aura of a person from their keyboards and make some use of it. Like for example arrange it neatly on the wall and voila! You have a new, contemporary idea for your modern shelter.
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We all know that good old retro-futuristic Steampunk design, and we’ve seen a bunch of it in movies too, be it the Golden Compass or the Wild Wild West. Here’s a little robot that might just find itself in the next Steampunk flick we see, created after the R2-D2 from the Star Wars. Built by designer and artist AmoebaBoy based in UK, this one’s made out of a bunch of recycled stuff, including boiler planks made from wooden coffee stirrers from a burger joint and a dome chiseled out of the internal workings of a water meter. The dome in particular took a whole two days to shape up and beat out. And the best part is, it’s just like the R2-D2 we’ve been seeing all along, though with a “Steamboy visits the Star Wars” touch.
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Its time for the Navy to bid a goodbye and farewell to its old-time retired vessels that will soon be put to rest. One of these is the ex-USS Forrestal aircraft carrier on which Senator John McCain served in Vietnam in 1967. the 1076-foot Forrestal which proudly claimed the title of being the largest aircraft carrier in its day and the first one to support a jet aircraft will be sunk off the East Coast next year, to be used as an artificial reef. However the Basel Action Network don’t think too much of this idea, instead, as part of their Green Ship Recycling Campaign, state that dismantling and recycling the ship could help a lot more and keep the environment from harm and away from the toxic pollutants. 73 ships were dumped similarly in the last decade, causing the loss of 20,000 U.S. jobs and 560,000 tons of recyclable steel, copper and aluminum, while the government spent as much as $253 per ton, on the artificial reefing of four ships.
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The Christmas season is here, and everyone’s busy with their yearly shopping sprees as the world embraces the spirit of Christmas. An integral part of the Christmas season is the Yule Tree or the Christmas tree as we know it. We’ve come across some really green ones before, made out of recycled stuff and powering up using renewable energy like the solar powered tree in Albay, the Japanese tree powered by electric eels, and the Tree-Cycle made from recycled bicycles. To add up to these seriously green Christmas trees is this one by Israeli industrial designer Hadas Itzcovitch and her father, artist Ernest Itzcovitch made from 5480 recycled bottles on display at Haifa, northern Israel.
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We just love watching world records being made and broken; the green one’s sure make us smile. Here’s a record set by the class IX students of the Ryan International School in Ludhiana, Punjab in India. The students have made the largest piece of handmade recycled paper ever, measuring around 1050.4sqft and will show up in the 2012 edition of the Limca Book of Records. The Guinness world record was marked at 675sq.feet, while the Ryan International one is almost double the size. What started off as just a humble gesture towards sustainable development by the school principal, Dr. Augustine Francis Pinto turned into a world-record breaker.
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Ever wondered what happens to those billboards you see at movie theaters time and again? Well, most of them, perhaps all, end up in the dump. So, Daniel Craig and Megan Fox are left there, to bear with the elements, and fade away. Now, you can have them home, with you! No, not the real Hollywood stars, it’s the billboards. Here’s how. You can now have yourself an iPad sleeve with Megan Fox staring right at you, made out of a recycled billboard of Jennifer’s Body probably. Also, each sleeve is unique, taken that they’re all made of different billboards. Also, the material is light, flexible, durable and water resistant too!
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We’ve seen Optimus Prime and his cronies made out of recycled trash before. Now here’s yet another sculpture, not a Transformer, though equally breathtaking and amazing. Put together from scrap, this life sized Motorcycle Man Sculpture is an art installation by Robosteel and is based on a sketch by design artist Simon Roberts. Using recycled metal, the sculpture took 750 hours of tedious work to construct. Unlike them Transformers, this sculpture was made purely out of imagination, without the help of two Hollywood flicks to help get the picture straight.
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Designer and artist, Franco Recchia has found a novel way to put to use scrap cardboard and metal. Displayed at the Agora Gallery in New York City are little cities built by him, using these recycled materials. Rich in detail, these little sculptures are complete little cities with every one of those towering structures you see around you in your urban area. The Cityscape sculpture made of recycled cardboard also features a little clock-tower, while the one made of recycled computer chips reminds us of one of those futuristic cities we usually come across in Hollywood flicks.
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What happens when you grind a refrigerator and program a robot to go creative with the pieces? Beautifully designed chairs are what you’ll get! Well, at least Fanuc does that, using the bead like bits of a ground up refrigerator to construct a sturdy customizable chair. And no, Fanuc isn’t human at all! This robot was put to task by designer Dirk Vander Kooij, who has had it construct chairs of different shapes and sizes and colors, each different from the other, using the ground up refrigerators. The bits are melted and the Fanuc squeezes the substance, layer by layer, just like a baker decorating a cake with icing. After two hours, a chair is produced by the Fanuc robot.
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