Tag: recycle
Recycled Magazine Shelf – Home Decor Inspiration
For some people, collecting old magazines is a serious hobby. It reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where George's father collected TV Guides. I don't keep old magazines since they take up too much space in my house.
If I did; however, I would want to do something like this with them. What a w ...
Used Tea Bag Art – What a Beautiful Way to Recycle
I love both coffee and hot tea. To me, coffee is less maintenance though. You just pour it in a mug, add a little cream and go. Tea, on the other hand, takes more patience. You have to stand there while it steeps and then deal with the drippy messy tea bag when you take it out.
What do you do ...
Carefully Crafted Sculptures Made From Laundry
Our clothes have a lot of character. Take a look inside someone's closet. It can truly tell a story about that person and their life.
When asked where he got the idea for creating sculptures out of second hand clothing, artist Derick Melander said, "When I come across a dress with a hand-sewn r ...
How To: Turn Your Old Jeans Into Earth Friendly Sandals
I have so many pairs of jeans in different shades of blue. I also have some ripped black ones. I love wearing them. Not only are they comfortable, but they can be a girl's best friend when it comes to style. You can practically wear anything with a good pair of jeans. Luckily for us at work, we ...
Beautifully Designed Bottles – Now Your Tap Water Has Style!
I wrote an article a few weeks ago about a couple of guys who started a company called "Boxed Water Is Better." They suggest that drinking water out of a box is better for the environment than drinking it from plastic bottles. You can read that article here. Although I believe it is a step in the ...
A Website For A Greener Earth – Now Recycling Is Fun!
There are so many natural calamities and disasters that we hear on the news and experience ourselves like floods and earthquakes. The cause, many times, is because people have been reckless about taking care of our environment. The good thing is that there are a lot of organizations now that are t ...
Crazy Creative and Clever Cassette Tape Art
Remember cassette tapes from way back when? I'm so young that I can barely remember those (cough cough), but I have a vague recollection.
This completely rad artist, Erika Iris Simmons, uses old cassette tapes and VCR tapes to create fabulous artwork. The creativity here is jumping off the page ...
Wanna Be Cool? – Drink Your Water Out of a Box
We all know the downfalls of drinking bottled water, right? I'm not going to go into any of those, but if you would like to learn more about that, you can read this article published last month on the Mother Nature Network website: 5 reasons not to drink bottled water
It's been a little over a ye ...
The 6 Million Bottle Man – Making Good Use of Beer Bottles
This story is going to blow your mind. This guy that lives right outside Buenos Aires spent 19 years of his life collecting 6 million glass bottles and has now built a humongous environmentally friendly house out of them.
No matter how bizarre this sounds, this cute and crazy old man definitely ...
Mouth Watering Science Fiction Paper Art – Including DIY Link
You all are the only ones I can say this to because you are geeks like me and you will understand, but when I found out about this information today, I got so excited that my heart started beating faster.
Shunichi Makino, a profoundly talented papercraft artist from Japan, has been creating sci-f ...
Green Design | Old Tires Transformed Into Chairs
Yesterday I wrote an article about a designer that creates 3-piece furniture sets from discarded, broken shopping carts. If you would like to see the fabulous pictures of these chairs, you can check them out here: Interior Design | Recycled Shopping Carts
Today, as a follow up, I would like to s ...
Brick World | How To Repair a (LEGO) Brick!
With all the talk about LEGO and the massive and exciting amount of LEGO builds presented her on Bit Rebels, I started thinking... Sure there must be some kind of machine that can create life size LEGO bricks for humanity to use instead of those pesky bricks we are using today. Guess what? There i ...
Amazing Bottle Cap Designs | Don’t Throw Away, Recycle!
When I was younger, we use to collect bottle caps and play games with them. We used them as Chinese checker pieces. That was the only way we could creatively use bottle caps in those days. When you drink a soda or a beer, the first thing you do with the bottle cap is throw it away. It's a natura ...
Coca Cola Goes EcoCoke | The Genius Future Of A Trusted Brand
My last article about Coca Cola's "should be" effort of becoming a more environmentally aware brand was both highly appreciated as well as unlikely according to some of the comments. Apparently many of the people that made those comments believe that Coca Cola, being one of the most exclusive and w ...
Recycled Skateboard Art | Unbelievably Creative!
I recently wrote and article about "Hand Carved Skateboards" and it was one of the weirder things presented her on Bit Rebels. Well, I think I have one that might beat that by a few scales, at least. Again about skateboards, but this time with a different touch on it. Sometimes, if you're a professi ...