Category Archives: Recycle
Maybe this locomotive reminds you of the one dragging the Polar Express to the North Pole. But take a look inside and you’ll find yourself looking at luxury personified. Just outside the Izaak Walton Inn near Essex, you can live in this luxury lodging squeezed in a locomotive engine. This was a personal project by Tom Lambrecht, the General Director of locomotives for Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway in Fort Worth, Texas. His wife, Jamie designed the plush interiors of the locomotive. The locomotive would have been a pile of scrap metal if Tom hadn’t come across it two years ago. Recycling the unused locomotive and turning it into a luxury lodge was a difficult job done well with skylights replacing exhaust fans which have been left in place to create an ambience.
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Some people can make art out of anything and everything, and make it so appealing that it sells for big bucks! Artist Sayaka Ganz, 33, has created beautiful animal art using nothing but thousands of plastic spoons, knives and forks! She has managed to create a dog, eagle and fish, and a set of galloping horses ranging from 18 inches to eight feet in length, with around 500 pieces of junk, including sunglasses, cutlery and bendy baskets. Some of the wireframes are quite complicated and can take up to nine months to make. And seen as a collector’s item, you can get one for yourself at $10,895.
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Have you just got yourself a pair of shoes? Well, don’t throw the packing box away! Use it to build an F1 car instead, just like the one made by the Wilson Brothers! Okay, this car doesn’t really eat up the tarmac like those cool Ferrari’s and McLaren’s. But it sure makes a green statement and enlightens us on the need for recycling. This car was built using Puma shoe boxes and was a part of the installation at the shoe company’s new store at North State Street, Chicago. So who are the Wilson Brothers? Three guys, Oscar, Ben and Luke, with an expertise in graphic design, industrial design and music, came up with this awesome idea together.
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Using mist to create drinking water sounds like a science fair project. Well, it is now being applied on a larger scale to create 10-20 liters of water per day and not just a few drops! So how does this new way to water creation work? Using the DropNet fog collector, drinking water is harvested from mist in the air. This easy to assemble apparatus filters tiny water droplets from fog clouds and causes the droplets to coalesce. It can be helpful in isolated and far flung areas and if used in an array, these fog collectors can quench the thirst of an entire village.
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We know of plastic bottles being recycled to make a whole lot of amazing stuff. This time, they will be used to make uniforms for the Coca-Cola staff at this year’s Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Made out of 120 plastic bottles, these uniforms will help Coca-Cola go carbon neutral. The company has been a loyal sponsor for the games since 1928 and plans to go green for the upcoming games this year. This isn’t the first time Coke has made a green statement with recycling bottles. PET bottles have been used before to make the world’s biggest recycled artwork during the Recycle Week in Great Britain. The company also opened the world’s largest bottle-to-bottle recycling plant in South Carolina that will produce approximately 100 million pounds of food-grade recycled PET (polyethylene terephthalate) plastic for reuse each year.
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The lovable Apple iBook has found a new life after death with a whole load of innovative designs that use recycled iBooks. The last time we heard of an Apple iBook being recycled was the Apple iBook G4 Clock. This time someone came up with the idea of using a recycled iBook for a table lamp. The lamp was made out of recycled parts and the base of a recycled iBook. Apple fans have yet another conceptualized artifact for their bedrooms and office desks. Recycled iMac G4 Lamp will give used iBooks a new life and is limited in stock. So be quick if you want one of these awesome lamps that will cost you around $125 from Etsy.
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Ever fancied sitting on your computer keyboard, just to see how comfortable it feels? Well now you don’t need to crush your workstation’s peripheral devices for curious comfort. Designed by Nolan Herbut, the interactive Wolfgang Keyboard Bench has its surface made entirely of recycled computer keys. And no, the bench cannot be connected to a computer and used to type with your backside (if that’s what you’re thinking). The Wolfgang Keyboard Bench was made using around two thousand recycled computer keys embedded on the surface of a Baltic birch wooden bench.
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The blockbuster 3D animation film of the year, Avatar has sure left a train of thrown away 3D glasses behind. Laid end to end, these glasses will cover a whopping 3,987 miles, the distance between Los Angeles to Angmagssalik, Greenland. This is around 42.1 million pairs of glasses worn, or 935,834 a day. Now disposing off all these glasses is sure to create a mountain of plastic. To prevent these, companies providing 3D systems like IMAX, Dolby Laboratories, Real-D and XpanD have cracked their brains and put forth a recycling program. IMAX claims that its glasses can be washed 500 times using a glass cleaning machine. Glasses by Dolby and XpanD are also reusable. The companies claim that there is no use of throwing them away since they can be easily cleaned and made sterile.
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Apple notebooks are now seeing a new after-life and are being recycled into – watch out for this – wall clocks. It may sound weird to have a wall clock shaped like an Apple notebook, but then again, it looks cool! Made from a recycled iBook G4 case, the Apple iBook G4 Clock uses a mouse for a pendulum. Powered by two AA batteries, the clock measures around 14 inches wide by 18 inches in height and boasts a quartz clock movement, and pendulum movement. The clock is customized to its core and can also be tweaked and modified further according to the buyer’s specifications.
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With the Copenhagen summit on and everyone talking about global warming and figuring ways to tackle the environmental hazards at the Vancouver Winter Games, new ways and schemes have been thought of to spread awareness. They believe that the beverage bottles are not entirely a waste after the beverage is over. Nicola Kettlitz, general manager of the Coca-Cola Olympic Project team that they will also turn the recycled plastic into toques, scarves and vests to go back to the Ray-Cam community centre. Also the bottles consumed at the venue will go to build an outdoor sports court in the poverty-ridden Downtown Eastside. It’s a $350,000 investment in the inner city. “The Games have been a catalyst, but they alone are not the end result. It’s what we do afterwards that makes the difference” Mary McNeil, the B.C. Minister of State for the Olympics was quoted saying.
[CTV Olympics]
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