Tag: recycle
Recycling: The Merry-Go-Round Made Out Of Bicycles!
This article is near and dear to me because I love merry-go-rounds, I love my bicycle and more than both of those, I love recycling. This artistic creation combines all three of those.
Robert Wechsler, an artist living in Los Angeles, is known for his unusual yet simple installations. I remembe ...
Spare Wood Becomes Stunningly Cute Wooden Robots
Recycling can be done in so many ways, and it's important to know that as little as it may seem that you are doing by recycling, overall it makes a big difference. The ideas you can get from reusing something old to create something new could possibly lead to a whole new income source. It's not re ...
Recycling Inspiration: A House Made From Newspapers
Do you know of anyone that still gets their news from a newspaper? I remember when I was a little girl, we had a "paper boy" that delivered a newspaper to our house every morning. I don't know of anyone that reads a newspaper anymore. I don't like newspapers because they make my hands dirty, so l ...
Hose Cactus: Stunning Artwork About Drinking Water
Who would have thought that even a hose could be recycled into something so genuinely beautiful? The cactus is used to living in harsh environments where water is sparse. Deserts seem to be the prime location where cactus' flourish, and they have been recorded to live between 50 and 200 years whic ...
How Old Newspapers Become D’Eco Art
The things you can do by just recycling stuff is only limited to your imagination. I have many times written about things that have laid dormant awaiting their decomposition, even though it might take thousands of years, which have then instead been turned into things so beautiful you could swear o ...
Container Guest House: Pack Your Guests In Recycled Living
I have always found it hard to house guests to my own satisfaction. Whenever someone jumps by my place for a visit, I always want to house them like royalty instead of as friends. I don't just want to show them to a room and tell them this is the place you will be calling home for the next three d ...
Recycled Wildlife: Mechanical Nature Is Here
So you're looking out onto your garden. There's a rabbit jumping aimlessly around looking for something to eat underneath the snow. You keep staring at it because it's not very often you get to watch these animals so closely without interrupting their everyday life. It's a treat, and it becomes a ...
Retro Seating: Now You Can Literally Sit In Your Fridge!
Many things can be modified or beautified, but few things can be turned into something entirely different and still be useful in a whole new way. I know, that sounds really weird, and the more I think about that sentence, the more my head spins. However, it's the truth, and this article is going t ...
The Only Bike Station Made Entirely Out Of Cardboard
In a world full of junk and garbage, it seems we are all trying to do our part in recycling whatever we can. Sometimes it's easier than others, but the fact remains that we are making a huge change by just trying. There are all different kinds of recycling going on in everyone's life if you look r ...
How To: Recycle Old Jeans Into A Cell Phone Case
For a woman, finding the perfect pair of blue jeans is like finding the Holy Grail. We try on dozens of pairs, and once we find the right ones, we love them, nurture them and keep them safe like they were our best friend.
I own two pairs of blue jeans that I treasure. I've had them both for sev ...
Skateboard Skulls: Creative, Creepy & Effective Marketing
What do you do when you want to promote your skate store in a unique way that is cheap, good for the environment and that will make customers practically come running to you? Well, you do what designer Beto Janz did of course!
He carved scary-as-hell skulls out of broken, discarded skateboards, ...
Bike Garden: Try Stealing These Bikes!
I seem to have started all my articles with a question lately, and that's really not intentional. It's more of a way to make sure the reader is in the mindset of what the article is about. Unfortunately, this time is no exception to the rule that has occurred. So have you ever had your bike stole ...
Gorgeous Vacuum Cleaners Created From Ocean Trash
It's no secret that our oceans are polluted with trash. Plastic is the most common material found on our beaches. Misty did two massive beach clean-ups this year, and she confirmed that plastic was what they picked up the most. She even wrote an article about how we can turn discarded plastic int ...
How To: Build A Jet Pack From Garbage
Haven't you always wanted to know how to build one of these? I have. Well, maybe not exactly; however, jet packs or rocket packs are geeky and cool, and always will be.
It's fun to think about what it would be like to put on a jet pack, hit the buttons on the handles and fly up in the sky, Buzz ...
How To: Make A Laptop Case With Recycled Plastic!
We use plastic bags all the time and why not? It's convenient. However, it has its downside, most of the plastics that we use for shopping bags are non biodegradable. What this means is that their composition will not be broken down easily, thus they can pollute our environment. When we did two ...