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Welcome to New York, and we’d like to show you a truly amazing architecture — an art studio made from recycled shipping containers. To make sure that the room will have a good lighting, the designer has built the two containers on top of a foundation wall that measures 2.75meters high. Therefore when standing in the interior, you’ll find the two story studio featuring an atmosphere of spaciousness, also with plenty of sunshine. Good news for those who also want such a perfect container building is that you can contact the Mb Architecture here to make an order now. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Excited about the cool Renault 2010 Sand Jumper? Well, continue reading then, coz the following information is much more exciting. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Made from 100% recycled paper, these pencils, with environment protection as the main concept, aims to enlighten the kids to live harmoniously with the nature. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Korea-based artist Ji Yong Ho, who believes that “rubber is very flexible, like skin, like muscles”, has shown us the artistic features of used car and motorcycle tires with a series of Tire Sculptures.

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Incorporating an ‘accordion-like, honeycomb’ structure, the FlexibleLove Virgin by Chishen Chiu could accommodate a seating for 8 to 16 people at one time. The product line now consists of two different kinds of FlexibleLove, the Earth 8 and the Earth 16. Both of them are made of recycled materials like the recycled paper, recycled wood waste, etc. When given a simple pull at each end, the furniture could be easily transformed into a semicircular or a circular-shaped seating to hold as many as 16 people. But when folded up, it measures merely one tenths of that. [Read the rest of this entry...]

If you’ve gotten too many plastic, metal and other waste materials in your life but still don’t know what to do with them, our suggestion is to create Optimus Prime Replica from them, just as a Taiwanese DIYer has done. Every part of the 14-foot Optimus Prime replica is made from junk, for example, his chest is made from old windows that may be lying in the rubbish bins. Though the replica is not that smart as the one we see in movies, it has successfully encouraged us to make full use of the waste around us. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Charles Seuleusian is quite concerned about the environment and aims to save up energy as possible as he could. His ‘Waste Basket’ is a reusable trash bin made from discarded wooden boards. How to DIY one? Surround a circle base with pieces of wooden boards, put an inflated balloon into the cylinder, fix the mouth with a splint and then done! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Creativity is everywhere and Erika Iris Simmons is here to show us a new look of art by creating some portraits with weird stuff. Her first project, which is also Simmons’ favorite work, is a portrait of William Shakespeare made out of the writer’s books. And after that, Simmons has tried to make portraits with other materials and finally come up with some impressive portraits made out of cassette and film tapes. So what are you waiting for? Check out more cassette and film tape portraits after the break. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Well-known for a sustainable use, Nokia has been widely popular all over the world. And the new product, a green phone that features a recyclable use, would make you love Nokia much more. Every part of the new phone is made from recycled Aluminum; A capacitive sensor is built onto the keyboard to simplify the phone; Electronic ink is adopted to display words so as to save more energy. In addition, the phone also uses silver-zinc batteries rather than the regular lithium batteries, to reduce electronic wastes. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Is anything made of paper as weak as paper? Not necessarily, and the Eco-Modular Furniture here is really solid, stable and strong. Constructed with 99% recycled paper, the eco-set of furniture is not only 62% lighter than those made of particle board, but also allows you to assemble different modules into any forms you may want. Just peel, stick, and a new piece of furniture is done! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Surprisingly, these ties are made from recycled cassette tape rather than fabric, which means your old walkman can also be sacrificed to the ties. Leaving aside its strange feeling, the tie really provides a perfect way to green products.

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2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games medals, unveiled recently at Vancouver Olympic village, are claimed to be environment-friendly, super-ellipse medals with undulating surfaces — all firsts in Games history. Except the traditional metallic material, CRT, computer parts, circuit boards and other recycled materials are also used to make these medals, which aims to call for more attention to the ecology business. As the medals are also designed to be “substantial”, they weight between 500 and 576 grams each, among the heaviest medals in Olympic Games history.

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Honestly, the ’shavings’ stools from Israeli have reminded me of the corks commonly-used in medicine bottles, but they’re certainly not that fragile. To make it both fashionable and firm, Yoav Avinoam has managed to press the sawdust with resin in a mold and combine other parts with it to create a non-waste stool.

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Certainly, you have found it’s a great way to recycle a bottle. When those needed parts are prepared, you can make a DIY wine bottle torch to light up any outdoor activities in the dark night.

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Obviously the design of the gorgeous home decorations that are made of recycled plastic bottles is the best action to the term “recycle”. Lamps, campanulas, chandeliers, etc, a series of dazzling styles have weakened the sharp lines of plastic and ensure the bottle lamps to be exquisite in warm light.

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