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Eco Factor: Eco-friendly furniture made from discarded milk cartons.

Chairs are meant to seat you in comfort, but when art is more than comfort alone, that’s when discarded carton boxes are recycled into furniture to blend modern needs with environmental issues. Eco-conscious artist Fabian Jochen Kanzler is well aware of the problems and has enough skill to figure out some artistic solutions as well.

The designer has come up with an eco-friendly chair – the 294 Liters Seat — which has been carefully created using 294 milk, coffee and juice cartons. The furniture item was created within one month by gathering waste created during regular consumption. The chair might not be as comfortable as the one you sit on, but it does symbolize grace in green consciousness.

Via: RecyclArt

I am not Chinese and I have never ever been able to eat with chopsticks properly. In fact every time I eat noodles in a restaurant with my buddies they make it a point to click a picture while half of those things are hanging out of my mouth still and I am desperately trying to swallow them while still attempting to look like I’m in perfect poise. So basically I suck when it comes to Chopsticks and Chinese food. That is exactly the reason why I bring it home and eat it in the comfort of my couch where I cannot make a total idiot of myself. That is also the reason why I support every chopstick being used in recycled art.

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As a child I hated it when my mom made me give away my toys to children’s charities. She always told me that I had ‘outgrown’ my Barbies and toy cars. Thankfully, designer Ryan McElhinney thought better and found a novel way to help people preserve their childhood memories by turning their toys into designer lamps and other decoratives. Ryan takes around 6 weeks to dissemble and reform your toys into beautiful sculptures that can even be handed down generations as heirloom pieces! Very, very cool!
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You might have seen many recycled products being in quite an interesting way. So, didn’t you ever think of using wine, or cold drink bottles, even after they are used up? If, the answer is ‘Yes’ so, here is for you an opportunity to enliven this long cherished desire with Rewind Glassware range that brings recycled old bottles, turning them into drinking glasses, which you can use in your day-to-day life. Interestingly, these old bottles are molded for day-to-day use by using energy-efficient methods, as this process doesn’t include melting down of bottles or re-heating them. This recycled range of old bottles starts from £3.50.

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Had you ever imagined a greenest laptop ever and that too completely biodegradable? I hope, ‘No’. Having no electrical cord and phosphorescent screen consuming mere nanowatts, this Mac book laptop is just like a dream come true. Interestingly, its chassis is made of durable clay. So, once you are done with it, just bury it in your garden. Isn’t it an eco-friendly way to remain hi-tech but still close to nature? Well, I think it is! Via: keetsa

Do you like recycled products that are innovatively designed and are extremely useful? Are you on the lookout for a planter that would be the ideal solution for all your planting and storage requirements? If yes, your search ends here. The Recycled Tyre Planter is an imaginatively designed planter primarily meant for growing trees, shrubs, bedding plants, herbs, potatoes and squashes. This unique planter, made of 100% recycled tires, can also be used as a storage device for keeping rakes, spades or hoes.

This beautiful recycled planter sports a strong and elegant look. The handcrafted quality and texture of the planter makes it an ideal choice for growing small trees as well as for storage purposes. The Recycled Tyre Planter has a dimension of 44cm x48cm x52cm and measures 60cm in height. The planter carries a $99 price tag.

Source:BetterLivingThroughDesign

We humans indulge in various activities that add to the climate change, including brushing our teeth. Yup, Brushing teeth as well. At the rate of one toothbrush every three months, we consume a good number of toothbrush during our entire lifespan. This, since toothbrushes are made of plastics, add to climate change. But now there’s a toothbrush that’s made from 100 per cent recycled plastics, a fairly good per cent (35) of it from recycled disposable cups that come with ready-to-eat food.

Recycline, a company manufacturing recycled raw materials, has introduced Preserve toothbrush made up of recycled plastic only. The toothbrush comes in various shapes and size for both adults and children. For $2.50 a toothbrush, they come with a travel case that has breathing holes to keep your brush fresh for long.
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Recycling can no longer be given a space to be forgotten, its time we face it and know how to make it efficiently useful. Recycling becomes complicated when we have to sort and separate the waste materials. It’s not simple to find out where the metal should be thrown, where the paper has to be dumped and at last where the plastic has to be kept-all for recycling.

But let all of us be aware that not all plastics and metals can be recycled. Here comes a technology that can judge what’s the nature of the garbage, it is called the ‘barcode trashcan’. If you can swipe the recyclable material over the top of the trashcan, the door opens for you to dump it right over there-giving you green signal to keep the world greener. The benefits that line up are immense, hygienic environment; the damage of resource is prevented. The efficient manpower control is exalted in fact, keeping the whole procedure rapid and constructive.

Source: YankoDesign

We have all used our share of CFC guzzling sprays and now it’s our turn to save the planet. We all recycle our plastics and cans but how would you like it if we made art out recycled PET bottles? Especially lights brought out all their PETs, combined it with transparent acrylic glass, bulb holder and shoved in some electric cable and voila! Out came some very cute blue, red and orange bottle lamps! The ones from the studio will cost you something like 50 euros but now that you have the basic idea of how its done, you too can try making one at home for yourself!

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Its time to fasten your seat belts and get ready for a much greener drive because some people at Georgia Institute of Technology have created a compact car that capture, stores and eventually recycle carbon from vehicles to prevent the pollutant from finding its way into the atmosphere. This sustainable transportation system uses a liquid fuel and traps the carbon emission in the vehicle for later processing at a fueling station.

The Georgia Tech car can run on conventional petrol or diesel, but has an on-board processor to separate out the hydrogen in the fuel. The hydrogen is used to run the car, as in a fuel cell vehicle, giving zero-emissions operation (the only waste product is water) and the carbon is stored in a liquid solution.

Via: Channel4