Category Archives: Recycle
Now you can have a part of an aircraft in your living room! And no, we aren’t talking about a cockpit in the corner of your room. We’re talking about tiles. Tiles made out of scrap recycled aircrafts. These Bio-Luminum tiles are made out of 100% recycled aluminum from old aircrafts. These tiles have a one-side beveled edge while the other side has a straight edge. These tiles are as strong as an aircraft can get, and work well for continuously walked-on floors and wall treatment.
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The next time you dumb your garbage in a bin, make sure you have it sorted well and dropped in the correct bin. Or else, you’ll probably burn a £1,000 fine in your pocket. Household waste like food scraps, tea bags etc in the wrong bin will have the family penalized. This forces families to use up to five different types of bins for waste separation and encourages picking up of recyclable products. This will also include the compulsory use of slop buckets to get rid of food waste. Environment secretary, Hilary Benn came up with this idea that will help reduce green house gas emissions.
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In an innovative move by 3M, graphic provider for the Vancouver Olympics 2010, the banners used for the Olympics will be recycled to form binding agents used for making long-lasting limestone flooring for educational and health-care buildings. Not only banners but also the thousands of stickers used will be recycled after the Paralympics. 3M plans to recycle about 200,000 square-feet of banners by this method. Apart from this, VANOC has also started an initiative in which beginning from April hundreds of street banners and stickers used in the Olympics will be sold on eBay as souvenirs. It also plans to sell the GM vans used in the Olympics as “Olympic Souvenirs” at a special price.
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Transformer fans have something to smile about and drool at. Here’s an Optimus Prime robot from the Transformer series that has a green touch to it, it’s made out of recycled steel. Standing 2.5 meters tall, this replica is made out of bits and pieces pulled out from TVs, cars and a whole sack-load of industrial byproducts that would find their place in a garbage dump instead. Robosteel, the company that gave birth to this smaller and greener version of the Transformers hero has made sure that this green masterpiece stands through time. A layer of lacquer helps protect the replica from the elements and not the Decepticons who this Transformer has spent his eternity fighting with.
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Planning to throw away the insides of your computer? Think again. You can make yourself a cool chess set instead! The chess board of this set is made out of the underside of a motherboard and 32 microprocessor chips. Bolts press fitted into the chassis helps elevate the board. The pawns are made out of capacitors while power transformers were transformed into rooks. To make the knights, power supplies with plastic encased relays were used with heads made out of inductor coils. Hard disk armatures were used to make the holy bishops while the beautiful queen was made out of a clock battery, RF choke filter ferrite core from data cable, electric motor core from pen-plotter motors and the crown out of hard disk platter washers with LEDs for jewels. The kings were made out of motor cores of two paper shredders with crowns made from hard drive washers, topped with the armature from old Zip drives.
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Uniforms made out of recycled materials seem to be the ‘in’ thing for environment minded sports persons nowadays. Nike’s team official team uniforms for the upcoming 2010 World Cup to be held in South Africa are made out of recycled polyester. Each of these is made out of at least eight plastic bottles. These were obtained from landfill sites in Japan and Taiwan. They were then melted down to produce yarn to make the jerseys. According to Nike estimates, this will help reduce energy consumption by around 30 percent. The kits are designed to keep players dry, cool and comfortable while playing and use ventilation zones on each side of the jersey. These ventilation zones are created by laser cutting 200 tiny holes into the fabric of the jersey.
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Who said that empty beer bottles are of no use! Tito Ingenieri, a resident of the city of Quilmes, has built a massive house using empty beer bottles and other trash. This house, which helped rid the streets of Quilmes of empty bottles, is supposed to be made using more than 6 million bottles. Tito Ingenieri says that he has also used other trash materials such as scrap iron in the house. The house also has some sculptures which are made from trash. Although the house doesn’t have too much of an aesthetic appeal it surely is helping the environment by recycling so many waste bottles.
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Now here’s a smart recycling robot that uses its laser eyes to sort plastic. Designed by IDEC, the Photonics Advanced Research Center, and Mitsubishi Electric Engineering, this robot was recently unveiled by Osaka University. Using its laser ‘eyes’ and sensors, this robot can distinguish between six types of plastic, making the recycling job a whole lot easier. Plastics are recyclable, though only 6% ends up for actual recycling. Distinguishing between recyclable and unrecyclable plastics by the naked eye is like picking a pin in a haystack. This 5ft 6in by 6ft 9in laser-equipped robot comes to the rescue and works efficiently.
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They once played beautiful melodies and charmed the hearts of many; these piano keys will now be recycled into a form of art. Piano parts and keys will be recycled according to the project taken up by Arts Council of Williamson County in collaboration with Steinway Piano Gallery of Nashville. These art pieces will then be auctioned at the Encore! Reclaim the Sound event in October. Parts like piano keys, foot pedals and tuning pins, key rails, benches and grand piano lids are being donated by Samick Music Corp.
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Do you love rock and roll? Itching to break that electric guitar of yours to impress your fans on-stage? Well, here’s a cheaper and more environment friendly way of breaking your guitar. No, you don’t need to smash your $400 Gibson anymore. Simply use the SMASH, the guitar created strictly for smashing purposes by a Japanese firm called K’s Japan. This electric guitar is like any other, except the fact that it is entirely recyclable once smashed and finished with. There’s more, the guitar also creates a smashingly devastating and destructing sound once smashed. After your done being all cool and angry with your smashed up guitar, simply send the parts back to the company and they’ll assemble it into a new guitar that will be given away to charity.
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