Category Archives: Recycle
Is that an Optimus Prime? Is that an oversized Super Mario? Hell no! It’s Coke Man! Here’s something that could give all those colossal and gigantic Transformer figures made from recycled stuff a tough time. Coke Man. This giant figure, of a man crafted out of old recycled cases looks less intimidating than the Transformers too, and it’s lovable too. Located at a Coca-Cola facility in Newton Joburg (Johannesburg), this figure is indeed a work of art that is sure to leave your jaw-dropped. The statue seems happy to be here though, and we absolutely love it!
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We all love that sparkling glass of wine. Nothing’s better than sipping on the right glass of this classy drink in an equally classy surrounding. Well, wine sure is a classy drink, and so are cigars inspired by it. Cigars may not seem a popular mouth-company for the people living in the faster lanes of life, taken that they consume a considerable amount of time to finish. But then again, there are times when, just like wine, we love our cigars too! This cigar, Second Growth is a wine inspired cigar brand by Hendrik “Henke” Kelner, the name that strikes the Davidoff bell.
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Remember Optimus Prime and Bumblebee? Well, Optimus Prime did transform into a full fledged warrior robot from a truck, and so did this piece of art we stumbled upon in China. Now maybe this Transformer robot can’t transform back into a truck or fight the Decepticons, but it sure seems to be a great way to recycle a scrapped truck. Students from the China Central Academy of Fine Arts came up with this 32-foot statue of a Transformer robot, using parts from an old junkyard truck.
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Recycling is the best way to put old scrapped out products to use again, breathing new life into them. And that applies to Boeing 747s too. So, converting an old Boeing 747 into a full fledged hotel seems to be a pretty innovative way to use the grounded jumbo. With its flying days ended, this Singapore Airlines 747-200 at Stockholm’s Arlanda Airport will play host to “passengers” who stay in it for a bit longer than a few hours flight. The jumbo has been converted into a 25-room hotel, with its top suite in the cockpit.
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Rubber is dumped into landfills sites everyday in various forms, tires, industrial waste and at times, disposed of erasers too. Well, all this rubber needs recycling and reusing. So Sharjah, UAE came up with a great way to put recycled rubber to use. Rubber roads. The first of its kind ever in the UAE, these roads will first be poured in a month, and might soon be a standard in Sharjah and UAE. According to Samer Kamal, managing director of Bee’ah, the Sharjah Environment Company, the top twenty percent of these roads will be rubber, with construction rates dropping by 30%.
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Now here’s something that’s bound to grab a lot of attention, if you hang it up in your home. The Pull-tab lamp. Just incase you haven’t figured out yet what a Pull-tab is, these are the little tabs we have on the top of our soda and beer cans. Pulling them away, exposes us to the cool insides of our drink can. This lamp is made using these little tabs, a great way to recycle them, turning them into a full-fledged piece of art that attracts all the “oohs” and “aahs”.
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Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe Resort, Spa and Casino have come up with a way to get rid of all those thousands of natural used wine corks. In partnership with ReCORK, the firm has launched an initiative recently, by which, the corks will be collected throughout the resort, and passed on to ReCORK to help with their recycling program. So what use do these corks come of? They are recycled and blended into unique formulations to produce foot wear products like flip sandals and packaging, by SOLE.
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Smashing beer bottles has never been a greener affair before. This time, you can spread awareness of recycling by smashing beer bottles, in a controlled environment. Blow off the steam by smashing bottles at the Glassphemy glass-pulverizing installation. The rectangular shaped structure is made out of bullet-proof glass, and can easily sustain the impact of a bottle smashing on it. The Glassphemy, created by Macro Sea, works as a glass recycling center and a great stress reliever too!
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The punks loved them, doctors study them and the pirates flaunt them on their flags. You guessed that right, we’re talking about skulls. Now this may sound weird and disgusting to some, but skulls are now inspiring artists more than ever. And using recycled materials to make skulls of different shapes and sizes gives this emblem of death and danger a new lease of life. The Skateboard Skull is made by a Japanese artist Hiroshi using old skate decks. The artist loves skating, and instead of having the decks thrown away, he came up with the Skate Board skull. Artist Brian Dettmer from Atlanta came up with the cassette-tape skull, made from old derelict cassettes. Subodh Gupta from India came up with the kitchen utensil skull, representing the poor and starvation.
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You buy a printer. Hook it on to your computer. Print out the stuff you need and empty out the cartridge. Where does the empty cartridge go after you dispose it away? To the e-waste dump at your city’s landfill! So, the Northern Territory Government came up with a way to recycle these cartridges, turning them into bicycle parks! The Simpsons Gap bike path, a popular tourist spot in Central Australia, has been upgraded with the use of recycled printer cartridges by the Northern Territory Government.
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