Tag: recycle
Upcycled CD Project Creates Enormous Water Lilies
We often find ourselves buying our music from iTunes or any of the other million music stores available today. Gone are the days when we buy our music from a music store on the street corner. We also don't get to check out the booklet that came with our newly purchased CDs. Remember those? Even thou ...
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11 Ways To Reuse Used Computer Paper [Chart]
We all know how important reusing and recycling is for our planet. I've learned that there are ways to reuse or recycle almost everything. Some people take it to what I would call the extreme and they even find ways to reuse the crumbs from their breakfast toast and their old dryer sheets, and more ...
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14 Very Useful Ways To Reuse Plastic Sandwich Bags [Chart]
Plastic shopping bags have been the center of a lot of controversy when it comes to recycling, reusing and other environmental issues. Some people believe that the millions of plastic bags given out in grocery stores every day are responsible for much of our daily waste. Then there are other people ...
‘Apeeling’ Orange Art: Fun With Fruit
Have you ever wondered what you could do with the orange rinds after you peel and eat your orange? Maybe you compost them, freeze them for orange rind Christmas candy or marinate them in vinegar to make a homemade and safe cleaning solution...but have you ever considered turning them into works of a ...
Clever Birdfeeders Made With Repurposed Household Objects
Since I'm sitting at my desk on the computer most days, I like to look out the window into my backyard often. There is a rabbit house out there with a cute little white bunny, and several birdfeeders. If you have birdfeeders in your yard, and if you fill them with birdseed everyday at the same time, ...
How To: Make Envelopes From Used Dryer Sheets
We love our planet a lot, and we write a lot of articles here on Bit Rebels about how to repurpose, recycle and reuse everyday items so that our planet has a chance to survive a little longer. Although I recycle a lot myself, there are some things that I just never thought were recycle-able if you k ...
Starbucks Location Built From Recycled Shipping Containers
Not only is Starbucks my favorite place to get coffee (Caramel Macchiatos to be exact), but this is also my favorite architectural design I've seen this year so far. What you see in these pictures is a Starbucks drive-thru created from four huge shipping containers. The containers are recycled and r ...
Insanely Mad Recycled Skateboard Deck Sculptures
Let's pretend for a second that you are a heck of a skateboarder, and in the process of learning your trade, you break an incredible number of boards before you finally started figuring out the tricks you want to learn. It's a long shot, I know, but keep this in mind for a few minutes. You are left ...
Extinct Bird Sculptures Created From Fast Food Chicken Bones
What do you do with your chicken bones after you eat all the meat off them? I eat a lot of chicken wings, and back in 2009, I even wrote an article about how to correctly eat a chicken wing. It never occurred to me until today that the leftover carcasses might be useful. I should start saving them s ...
Extreme Cut Out Book Art
I am sure I am not the first one to wonder what will become of all the books now that electronic books are making such a huge impact. I am sure there will always be libraries; however, will they be online or will there be scattered real book libraries here and there that will become a way to save th ...
Can’t Afford A Sound System? Build One From Beer Cans…
Are you one of those people who likes to sit around on your couch all day and drink beer while pointlessly wasting your life away surfing the Internet? Wait a minute, that's me. Well, not exactly. I like to drink beer, sit on my couch and surf the Internet, but I usually don't get to do all three at ...
Theme Recycling: There Are No Fresh Movie Posters
Are you a frequent movie goer? If so, you know that when you see a cool poster, the movie is probably going to be as awesome as the poster, right? Or is it? I have tried and tried again to figure out just how these poster designers think when they create what will be the front advertisements for the ...
A World Map Created From Recycled Computer Parts
Just last month, I wrote an article about the city of Helsinki created from recycled motherboards. It was an extraordinary piece of art, and the shape of the city was almost immediately recognizable when you looked at the picture of the whole thing. If you want to see it for yourself, you can go to ...
The Man Who Found 101 Uses For His Ex-Wife’s Wedding Dress
This is such a funny story. I guess it's one way to recycle, right? When Kevin Cotter's wife (who he had been with since high school) left him last year, she packed up her car with everything except her wedding dress. He said, "You forgot your wedding dress." She said, "Yeah, I'm not taking that." H ...
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How To: Run An Eco-Friendly Home [Chart]
By now we all know how important it is for our precious planet that we recycle and choose the materials we use in our daily lives wisely. Reusing things that we might have previously considered trash is also a great way to give a new life and purpose to materials that might otherwise end up in a lan ...