Category Archives: Recycle
The next time you probably sip your steaming hot caffeine soaked beverage out of a Starbucks cup, it might just be a recycled one! The firm is planning to go down hard on recycling, and is planning to recycle old cups into new ones, instead of tossing them in the bin. The coffee chain has set targets of having 100% recyclable and reusable cups by 2015. The company, since 2006, has been using fiber from recycled office paper for its cups. Starbucks has Mississippi River Pulp to thank for this, owing to their efforts in having recycled the cups into a pulp suitable to make more cups. The firm plans to start off this recycling program in a major city by 2011, with help from Mississippi River and International Paper.
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At first, this one seemed to be a Tour De France pileup. A closer look made it seem like a Christmas tree, and that’s exactly what it really is. Who needs those boring old plastic trees standing up in the city square when you could simply pile up a bunch of recycled bicycles to make something like this! Built in Sydney Australia, this product of recycling, known as the Tree-Cycle, took 100 bikes to construct. Standing up 23 feet high, the Tree-Cycle had the bike frames painted green, while coloring the wheels with rainbow colors, giving them the ornament look. The tree is complete with a yellow star, also made out of bikes on the top. Every year, The Rocks in Sydney plays host to a tree made of recycled stuff, like the bottle tree and chair tree that popped up in previous years.
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You dug into your turkey dinner this thanksgiving and can’t wait for the next time a roasted turkey lands up on your dining table. It’s time you spare a thought for all that oil used up to cook your lovely meal. We stumbled across an astounding fact that will probably change the way we cook our thanksgiving and future turkey dinners. The oil used up for the purpose, could actually power up an 18 wheeler! A group of like minded individuals in New Orleans set out to collect all the oil used for cooking the turkeys. This will then be turned into biofuel. The initiative will be carried out till the 4th of December. Also, if you’ve got any cooking oil disposal to do, you can check out the campaign and initiative at operationreach.org.
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Well, if you aren’t too comfortable using the usual garbage recycling facilities, owing to the fact that they can get smelly and messy at times, here’s what designer Soyoung Park has to offer. Known as the Econology Life Recycle House, this structure is basically a recycling facility with a cleaner and more sophisticated touch to it. Carry your garbage to this one, complete with an integrated waste separation system that’ll make sure all your garbage is disposed off in the right way. Giving it a greener touch, the Econology Life Recycle House also boasts a bunch of solar panels up on its roof to soak in the sun and fulfill energy needs. Lastly, the structure also features a wash basin, where you can have your hands go squeaky clean after taking out the garbage.
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We’ve all played with those awesome action figures at some time of our growing up years. Well, we’ve come to think about just what happened to all that packaging once we’d rip out our favorite action figure. It most certainly would pile up in landfills, and Hasbro aims to change that. The toy maker has planned to increase the amount of recycled material used in its packaging. Known for all those Transformers, G. I. Joes, Star Wars figures and a lot more, Hasbro will have 75% of its packaging made of recycled materials by 2011. By the year 2015, Hasbro’s looking forward to increasing this by a whole 90%.
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Coke has now come up with a new way to have all those cans and bottles of yours recycled. The firm has pulled the veil of a contraption, called the Reimagine Beverage Container. Simply collect all your cans and beverage bottles, not just Coke, Pepsi too, and dump it all in the machine. Using a conveyer belt, the machine sorts out the cans and bottles with sensors, ultimately crushing them and rewarding you with points that you can use to enter a sweepstakes competition or donate funds to schools. A shopping center in Arlington, Texas, will play home to the first machine of this kind, while more will be introduced in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
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We’ve seen shipping containers being recycled and overhauled into some pretty practical and usable finished products before. Well, we came across a home packed into a shipping container this time, and it sure as hell took our breath away. For $15,000 to $40,000, you could get yourself a home in a recycled shipping container by a New Hampshire-based company called LEED Cabins. These take around 25 days to build. Besides just using a recycled container and doing its bit for recycling, these homes are a lot greener too, with added on eco-friendly features like solar panels, grey water waste systems, composting waste systems and a lot more.
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Now like every other digital product, laptops when exceeded their age limits end up in digital dumps too. These dumps pollute our environment more than ever, taken that they play home to all that toxic and un-degradable waste. Well, the Bloom laptop is unlike any. And it’s no wonder that this design by a bunch of students from the Stanford University won the Autodesk Inventor of the Month award for October. This one’s so designed, that it can be pulled apart into pieces in just two minutes, with bare hands. Breaking down this one helps it recycle easier, enabling users to pick out the recyclable materials easily.
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Ever watched a movie sitting on a refrigerator? Well, we haven’t either. However, the next time you do plan to buy your home a couch, consider recycled furniture and do your bit for the environment! This Fridge Couch from Fridgecouch was made from an old refrigerator, recycled and turned into a cozy comfortable seat. Made from an old 1984 BMW 325, the couch, with its cherry red furnishings, would fit right into that living space of yours, giving you and your folks a great place to cuddle up in front of the television.
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So you’ve spent hours sticking to the glass of that music shop with your eyes wide in wonder fixed on that six string beauty that just came in. well, if you’ve been looking out for an eye-catching guitar that’ll make the people watching you go “Ooooh!” just looking at it, consider recycling! These guitars were made from recycled products. Take the steam-punk V guitar. It looks amazing, right out of the Golden Compass and uses all those old nuts and bolts and electrical throw-aways. Up next is the oil-can guitar, made from a recycled oil can. The cigar box guitar looks classy, complete with that vintage feel of cigar boxes while the Altoid guitar uses an Altoid tin for a body! The Skateboard guitar left us completely baffled, perfect for the skater boy rocker; this one’s body is made from an old skateboard lacking two wheels. We also came across the gun guitar, sweet enough to shoot music at your listeners.
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