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10 Beautifully Useful Things Made From ‘Useless’ Trash

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Nathan Devine’s ReTrash is one of those projects that’s such a great idea, it has grown much bigger than him. As an Australian kid during the ’80s, Devine (that’s him, pictured above) helped his dad in his landscaping and carpentry business, but his favorite part of the week was going to the garbage dump, where he would pull useful things from the trash, fix them up and resell them. Fast-forward to the present, and Devine continued this idea of turning trash to treasure; he has constructed a shed from old pallets and a garden box from an old window (see below).

Now, the online community that formed around the project, ReTrash, is soon to be published as a book of the same name, including both Devine’s projects and the work of 82 designers and artists from 20 countries around the world who all see trash as Devine does: fuel for creativity.

According to the site: «ReTrash seeks to inspire and challenge people to think about how we can reuse waste in creative and innovative ways. It is the work of a three-year collaboration, during which time ReTrash has received hundreds of book contributions from people all over the world.»

The upcycling projects below are just some of those that will be featured in an upcoming book about ReTrash (check at the bottom for more details about the publishing, and how you can be a part of it!).

With the rise of e-books, real paper books are being dumped by the ton. But with interesting colors and patterns, and great old cover designs and fonts, they can be made into all sorts of things, including this chair by designer Alvaro Tamarit.

One of Nathan Devine’s own upcycling projects is this awesome planter made from an old window; it’s a cold frame for spring seedlings (when the glass is closed), and then converts to a regular planter when plants get bigger.

Dirk Vander Kooij’s chair is made entirely from recycled plastic bottles that are melted down and used as base material in a 3-D printer; the device lays each layer of plastic down one at a time (you can see the grooves in the image above).

These fun, hard-sided bags made from recycled cardboard leave room for all kinds of needful things inside, and Jeff McCann’s original exterior illustrations make these bags one-of-a-kind.

These lovely candleholders by Lucia Bruno are crafted from upcycled bottles, and create a pretty light of an evening — without using additional resources.

Ruti Ben Dror’s pencil-keeper (it could be used for jewelry or other small items as well) bowl is crafted from recycled paper and cardboard, so it will stay together for the long haul.

This beautiful, minimalist light fixture by Rodger Thomas is made from an old industrial whisk that’s been discarded.

Tanith Rohe makes jewelry — like this stunning cuff — from recycled paper and electronics, and is both unique and striking, in an understated way.

Mark Langan’s meticulous works of art, some of which are based on famous paintings and sculptures, are all made with recycled cardboard.

In another creative use of books, this time it’s for a shelf to hold newer tomes (or other stuff); it’s a fun double-take kind of piece by Not Tom for the book-lover’s home.

Devine is running a Kickstarter campaign through May for the book’s printing costs, but you can pre-order it here, too. You can see some more of the projects from ReTrash in the video above.

13 Products Made Using Recycled Materials

One man’s trash is another man’s line of eco-friendly stuff. These companies went green by using recycled materials to make these products, which are functional, stylish, and Earth-friendly.В

1. Keen’s Harvest Wallet and Bags

Keen makes the bags, totes, and wallets that comprise its Harvest Collections out of pre-consumer automobile side airbags. The leftover, excess, or obsolete airbags are shipped from the manufacturers to a recycler in Salt Lake City, where they’re sorted before being shipped to a facility in Chico, California. There, the bags are cut into bag pattern pieces either by hand (using a rotary knife) or with a die-cut machine. Crafters sew the product together; when completed, each item is hand numbered and signed by the person who made it.

2. Looptworks Leather iPad Covers

Looptworks is no stranger to using recycled materials—they’ve previously crafted items from neoprene wetsuit fabric, cotton jersey, Italian wool, hemp, nylon, vinyl, and recycled polyester—but these upcycled iPad cases are their first foray into leather. The cases are made from scraps of excess shoe leather eliminated because it had natural blemishes. This discarded material can amount to 4500 pounds per day from just one factory.

3. Cardboard fm Radio

This radio, made mostly from recycled cardboard, can also be recycled at the end of its life. It’s powered by four AAA batteries and catches FM signals with its antenna, but you can plug your iPod in to listen to your own music, too. Get one over in the mental_floss store.

4. Moving Comfort Activewear

The grounds used to create your daily jolt of caffeine have to end up somewhere—namely, a landfill. Many pieces in Moving Comfort’s activewear line incorporate a fabric called S. Cafe, which uses a patented process to remove the phenol, ester and oil from coffee grounds and turn them into yarn. That yarn is incorporated into a fabric that, thanks to the coffee, is naturally odor repellant, protects from UV rays, and dries quickly.

5. Skateback iPhone back

Each week, skateboard factories create enough waste to fill a city bus—so Grove and Maple xo collaborated to make these iPhone backs out of the discarded post-industrial skateboard material. The backs are each milled and finished by hand, so no two are alike; they attach to the back of the phone with a 3M adhesive.

6. Wonderful Wizard of Oz iPad Cover

Put the “book” back into ebooks with this awesome iPad cover, which looks just like the first edition of Frank L. Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, available in the mental_floss store. We’ve also got The Great Gatsby and Pride and Prejudice; all of the covers are made of 30 percent recycled materials.

7. Dakine Men’s Surf Pack

One need only look at the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to realize that a lot of the plastic we use ends up in the ocean—so it’s cool that this wet/dry surf bag (which has a waterproof wetsuit pocket) is made with 100 percent recycled PET fabric from plastic bottles. (Dakine has other packs, duffle bags, totes, iPad bags, and carry ons made from the material, too, for both men and women.) The company also doesn’t use PVC coating—an environmental toxin—on its products, so they’re ultra-Earth friendly.

8. Record Bowls

Vinylux finds new use for old vinyl records by turning them into functional bowls. Most of the records the company recyclesВ are «scratched, warped, or otherwise played-out,» so there’s no need to feel bad. The bowls are molded into shape over custom-made forms, the label is laminated, and the spindle hole is sealed with clear tape. (If you find bowls boring, the company also makes clocks, ornaments, sketchbooks, bookends, and mirrors.) No part of the record is wasted; the paper is collected and recycled, and the vinyl scraps are sent to a plant in Nashville, where they’re recycled and turned into brand new records.В

9. Baseball Bat Bottle Openers

Sure, they’re expensive—but these bottle openers, made from bats swung by the Major Leaguers, are almost as cool as tickets to a game (and cheaper, when you factor in stadium prices for a hot dog and beer). Each opener has a number, which can be plugged into a database to find out which game the bat was played in.

10. Pi Kitchen Towels

These Pi towels, available in the mental_floss store, are made from cotton flour sacks and eco-friendly ink.

11. Coal Headware Cottonwood Beanie

Coal Headwear’s Cottonwood Beanie is made of cotton yarn, which is repurposed from clippings and scraps made during manufacturing. The color is already in the scraps, so less dyes and chemicals are used in the process of repurposing the materials into new yarn.

12. ReCycle Bikes

These bikes are handmade in Portland, Oregon, from recycled aluminum. The seats are made of renewable cork, and they use belts instead of chains because belts require less maintenance. Though it’s not quite there yet, the company hopes to one day have the bikes made of entirely recycled materials.

13. Green Toys

These super cute, kind of retro toys are made out of recycled plastic milk jugs. Even their packaging is 100 percent recycled (and recyclable)—and, as a bonus, doesn’t have any of those twist ties that make regular kids’ toys such a pain to open.

15 Surprising Things That Are Made from Recycled Materials

You already knew that recycling whenever possible is a responsible thing to do, but did you know that some of the stuff in your recycling bin can find a second life as amazing and unexpected products?

1. KITTY LITTERВ

Certain brands of cat toiletry products are made from recycled newspapers, sourced from local centers whenever possible. On top of being green, because this litter is not clay-based, it also has the added benefit of not kicking up unpleasant kitty dust storms.В

2. SOAPВ

You may be surprised to learn that hotels don’t always throw out your mostly intact bar of soap left in the shower. Instead, services can clean the bars and send them to foreign countries where cleaning supplies are more difficult to come by.

3. ROADS

The next time you’re cruising down a freshly paved highway, you might want to thank your renovation-obsessed neighbor: Discarded roofing shingles are a growing resource for asphalt manufacturers. The old pieces are ground up and used to improve the quality of pavement. Recycled glass can also be used to help the reflective properties of highway markers.В

4. TROPHIESВ

Regional sporting achievements or corporate accomplishments can now be recognized in an environmentally friendly way. Several companies are using recycled glass and even newsprint to make trophies.

5. WINTER JACKETSВ

Wearing trash has never looked so good! The polyester lining in coats can be created from old plastic bottles, with some jackets containing as much as 150 containers’ worth of material.

6. AUTOMOTIVE PARTSВ

Unless you’re driving a classic car, odds are your vehicle of choice has components made from recycled bottle caps and containers. Seat cushions, wheel liners, and splashguards are among the parts that use recycled materials.

7. TENNIS BALLS

Some tennis ball manufacturing processes result in a lot of unused, shaved-off rubber. Rather than waste these shavings, companies can utilize the remnants to make up to two million extra balls a year.

8. PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT

The durable “plastic lumber” of slides, swings, and other recreational equipment is often the product of High Density Polyethylene, the same kind of tough material found in milk jugs.

9. BASEBALL BATSВ

Aluminum bats used in games from street stickball to the college level can be sourced from used aluminum cans. You’ll also find license plates, pie plates, and thumbtacks made from the highly versatile recycled material—heat-resistant and rust-proof, aluminum can be reused almost indefinitely.

10. BRICKSВ

Depending on your contractor’s preferences, you might wind up living in a literal glass house. Grinding down recycled glass into “cullets,” or very fine shards, can produce a material that’s perfect for use in bricks due to its smooth surface.

11. SLEEPING BAGSВ

As with jackets, the toasty filling of a sleeping bag can be the product of recycled plastics or fiber materials. You might even find one that uses discarded coconut shells for warmth.

12. BERRY BOXES AND EGG CARTONSВ

The next container of berries or eggs you grab at the grocery store might have started as old newspapers.

13. COFFINSВ

Your carbon footprint doesn’t stop leaving an impression when you stop walking around—so make your final resting place a green one. Several companies offer environmentally friendly coffins; some are biodegradable and made from recycled paper or bamboo.

14. STADIUM SEATSВ

With hundreds of thousands of hard plastic seats in arenas worldwide, using existing materials can make a major impact on sustainable businesses. Chairs in major stadiums are already being made from recycled plastic and scrap iron, while older chairs can be donated to teams in smaller leagues.

15. TOOTHBRUSHESВ

The plastic in toothbrush handles doesn’t need to be injection-molded from scratch—some companies use recycled yogurt cups. (Don’t worry: the bristles are new.)

Recycling can make everything old feel new again. Of course, we’re glad that some old things haven’t made a comeback. Like dial-up Internet.

What are the things that can be recycled?

What are the things that can be recycled?

In this article we are going to discuss about the things that can be recycled. Recycling refers to the process in which an already used item is treated and processed, such that it is made suitable for reuse so that the resources involved in the particular article are not wasted and can be further utilized. Recycling has emerged as one of the few methods for the protection of our planet and our valuable natural resources, amidst our exponentially increasing demand for new commodities.

What are the things that can be recycled?

Hence to provide more knowledge and awareness on this extremely important topic, we highlight the top 10 things that can be easily recycled and also mention how we can contribute to this noble task of recycling.

1. Paper

One of the prime things to recycle today is the huge trash of papers that we possess, as even in the digital age, papers make up more than 28% of the solid trash in the landfills. This data gives us a real sense that how much we are dependent upon papers even in the modern world, and makes us realize how much paper waste is generated daily in the world. Now the mistake that we do is that to get rid of excess paper waste, we generally burn them, thus producing more carbon dioxide and affecting the environment. But, on the contrary recycling of papers can lead to innumerable benefits for humans.

Facts show that recycling one ton of paper saves the energy equivalent to the energy needed to power the average U.S. home for six months and saves about 7,000 gallons of water and thus makes everyone realize how recycling paper can lead to a tremendous protection of our energy and water resources. Moreover, recycling paper and reusing them decreases the daily cutting rate of trees for supplying fresh demands of paper, and we all are quite well aware of how trees are extremely beneficial for the existence of human life on earth. In addition to this, they can also reduce the greenhouse effect and global warming, and hence papers are the primary things that we should recycle.

2. Cardboards

Cardboards are an example of another common thing that we frequently use in our daily lives, but most of us just throw it away and hardly anyone ever bothers to recycle it. Now, cardboards consist of cardboard fibers, and are mainly made up of new and recycled papers, which are again tree products, and making one ton of cardboard requires 3 tons of trees. Therefore recycling cardboards can enable us to save several cubic yards of landfill space, energy, and most importantly prevent deforestation since treses are necessary for human existence.

Instead, we must open the cardboard boxes, flatten them out, and dispose them only at recyclable sites, where they are baked and sent to a mill, shredded into small pieces, and put in a pulping machine to introduce water/chemicals and break down the cardboard into fibers in an attempt to recycle and reuse their materials.

3. Batteries

Another regular thing that we often use and throw off without thinking that its improper disposal can cause any damage is a single-use battery. However, we must remember that by recycling batteries we can reduce the waste sent into landfills, conserve natural resources such as metals and minerals, save energy, reduce greenhouse gas emission as well as prevent pollution due to frequent mineral extractions caused due to rapid demands of batteries. Hence we must remember this before casually throwing off a battery that its recycle could have been of such a benefit to the society. Now the question arises how.

Well to answer this we, the common people can’t directly recycle batteries but what we can do is before dumping batteries, we can call our local solid waste district to find out if our community has a collection program or upcoming event, or else search for recycling centers nearby using the Earth911’s recycling search website, which is itself a big organization taking giant strides for promoting this cause.

4. Cell Phones

Cell phones are another very common commodity that almost every person uses in the modern world, whether they be rich or poor, kids, or old people. Hence due to the vast and innumerable number of cell phones being sold and used worldwide today, people need to be able to properly dump and recycle them to prevent huge storeys of mobile phones blocking the landfill areas, as well as seeping of hazardous materials like lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium, and brominated flame retardants in the grounds which curb mining and agricultural processes and promote health issues. Thus we all must attempt to recycle our used and damaged mobile phones.

For this, we first have to delete all our information from our phones, and then get in touch to donate our phones to the Eco Cell organization that is on a mission to reuse and recycle as many cell phones as possible. Other than this, we can also donate our unused phones to soldiers or poor donation programs to promote their reuse rather than throwing them away.

5. Aluminum Cans

Aluminum cans are another commodity that we frequently come across in our daily lives, and kick them away carelessly, without ever pondering over their effects on our environment. But here is what is scientifically proved that recycling of aluminum from its cans can save a huge amount of energy and money that is required to extract new and pure aluminum from its ores as well as prevent 95% of the greenhouse gas emissions that occur due to the primary production process of aluminum. Hence instead of kicking away aluminum cans, we must attempt to recycle them by performing the small job of throwing them into proper municipality dustbins, from where they can be collected and taken to treatment plants, where they are further sorted, treated and hence reprocessed and reused.

6. Running Shoes

Running Shoes are articles that people use quite frequently and throw them off once they are a bit worn out, as they \do not contribute to make their running effective. However, we must realize that just by not throwing away a slightly worn-out running shoe, and giving it for some noble cause, we can have a huge impact on our neighborhood and mankind. The first and simplest option is definitely to donate our running shoes to poor children and people, who don’t have money to buy a new pair of shoes and for whom even our worn-out shoes are of great help. This is unarguably the best method of reusing our worn-out shoes.

The other thing that people can do is search for companies who are undergoing the reuse-a-shoe movement, as often undertaken by Nike and other famous brands, under which they collect worn-out shoes of any brand and recycle them by extracting their materials or by repairing them and handing them out to the unfortunate people.

7. Plastic

Plastic is another commodity that is widely used in our daily lives, but the problem with plastics is that instead of filling up a major part of our landfill areas, plastics are generally non-biodegradable and take millions of years to degrade. Hence they are hardly recyclable. Thus we must minimize the use of plastics as much as possible, and attempt to recycle them to the fullest amount. For this, we have to properly dispose of plastics, such that they reach their treatment plants, where they are decomposed using high heat. Such recycling of plastic by high heat after separating and shredding the particles involves the usage of heat gasification to recycle plastic waste into ammonia, used to manufacture many products, and CO2 for carbonization. Thus plastic wastes can be very recycled like this in a very controlled manner.

8. Clothes

Clothes refer to another essential commodity that we use regularly during our lifetime, and normally throw them off carelessly once they become unusable or lose their brightness or charm. However we forget that by recycling clothes instead of randomly throwing them away, we can prevent huge dumps created at the landfills, as well as waste the several materials and resources including premium quality fibers, cotton, and leathers that are used in manufacturing those clothes. Hence, instead of throwing away those clothes, we must make attempts to recycle and reuse them. To reuse, we can donate our old clothes that are in a usable condition to the poor people, whereas we can repurpose and use the completely unusable items of clothing or sell them off to organizations that effectively do this job, thus enabling productive recycling of the clothes.

9. Glass Containers

Glass containers are another commodity that we often use and throw away afterward. We must know that glass is non-biodegradable and hence it should not be thrown away carelessly as it will lead to extreme solid waste pollution. Thus, the best possible way to recycle glass is to reuse it is to separate glass containers from all other types of glasses, and avoid breaking them off and giving them off to suitable recycle organizations like the earth911 to make them suitable for reuse, since reused glass containers can serve as a substituent to 95% of the raw materials used for manufacturing glass.

10. Steel

Steel cans are the ones that are used to hold coffee, tea, vegetable oils, and other packed food and are also referred to as tin cans. Normally we just throw such cans after use without caring much, but we must remain aware that recycling such tin or steel cans can lead to huge resources, energy, and monetary savings that are required for producing new steel cans. Such steel cans can be recycled by simply disposing them into the municipality dustbins, from where they are automatically taken to treatment plants, where they are treated, reprocessed, and are made fit for reuse. We should further promote the buying of recycled steel cans to ensure the smooth rotation of the circle.

Thus the above article highlights the top 10 things that can be recycled for the betterment of our planet, as well for the protection and restoration of our earth’s natural resources.

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