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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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Presenting here is a ceiling mounted lamp with a bottle-like appearance. To convey an environmental protection aspect, the bottle chandelier is constructed with rubber hose, wood, and clay, illuminating your lonely night with warm light.

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Though producers, sellers, users have been encouraged to recycle the packaging materials and containers of the product, white pollution is still a big problem to handle. In that case, what should we do to deal with big amounts of plastic bottles all over the world? It’s time to find new ways to it. Yun Hwan Sung has recently come up with the “Seeds in the Bottle” to surprise us. With seeds stored inside it, you can release them into the bottle, invert the bottle and put into it some necessary fertilizers to change the bottle into a flower pot. What a simple but really green idea!

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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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Best publicity needs best billboards, but who needs billboards? To fully recycle the large amounts of billboards, TBWA, an advertising agency for apple, adidas and absolute vodka, has recently launched the two billboard collections. Fashionable, environment-friendly, both the shopping bags and collecting cases are valued as the cleverest commercial products with the smallest amount of waste.

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Made of reprocessed tires, the sofa is a good example of “resource recycling”. Put some tires all together, use soft fabric to fill in the cushion and then you can own an environment-friendly sofa.

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Unlike most other constructions, this one from Shigeru Ban is made from paper board. And it is starting to pre-sale of £20,000 – 30,000. [Read the rest of this entry...]

We have introduced many products with a recycled package which can be reused for the other purpose, such as TV packaging stand and eco-friendly cake box. However, what about such products without any package as a bottle of wine? Why not try labels?

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If you like reading, you might need a magzine anywhere, especially in bathroom. So, this dustbin gonna be a good alternative. As a container of waste tissue, it’s cover could be a magazine. OK, you could receive something while excreting!
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Plug two plastic bottles into the hanger, it gonna be a recyclable gadget. In addition, the wide surface of the bottle could protect clothes from being distorted. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This is a insect robot which could follow light source. This kind of robot is not weird, but if I tell you it is made from an old PlayStation 1, what do you think?

Video after the jump

Designer: Harold Ilano

This is a NASA toilet manufactured by RSC Energia from Russia, whose price is 19 million dollar. It could recycle the dejections of cosmonauts into drinkable water. Oh, my God. You wanna try?

It’s DIY clock made from hard disk. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Lighting a burner made from bulb while dinner must be the most romantic thing.

You can DIY.