All Entries Tagged With: "recycling"

Old Clothes Find New Life As Your Bag With The Joe Recycled Suit Tote

When your favorite suit from five decades ago goes out of style, what do you do with it? Reuse it into something like the Joe Recycled Tote Bag, an old suit fashioned into a strapped carryall for everyday use.
Created by Korean non-profit design shop, Eco Party Mearry, the bag is made from a real pair of shirt and suit, neatly folded into a tote and sewn with a strap for easy handling. Each one is made from a distinct pair of clothing, making every bag the only one of its kind.
The Joe Recycled Suit Tote is a 19.7 x 16.9 inch bag made from 100% recycled components. Not only is the clothing a former resident in someone’s closet, the handles are stripped off from old leather couches too. All the suit and shirt pockets outside remain usable, just in case the interior compartment isn’t enough to [...]

Pepsi Encourages Recycling With Dream Machine Kiosks

Pepsi is putting out new kiosks. Instead of dispensing soda like regular vending machines, though, the Pepsi Dream Machine is meant to collect bottles and cans for on-the-go recycling.
Done in partnership with Waste Management, the computerized bin is designed to make for a convenient place to dump used soda containers, providing on-the-go recycling facilities to regular consumers. Each can or bottle you drop in is recorded, with redeemable reward points (probably for more Pepsi) doled out for your troubles.
The Pepsi Dream Machine is a huge, blue-and-white box, with a computerized system that scans each container (so you don’t go dropping molotov cocktails inside) before opening the trap door. It’s connected to the internet, presumably for recording the deposits, as well as streaming media to the onboard displays (we’re guessing here, but if there’s a screen, there are usually advertisements with it).
They’re hoping to install it in supermarkets, [...]

Tire Belt Uses Discarded Bike Tires To Hold Your Pants Up

Even bicycle tires don’t need to end up in a landfill after they’ve blown past their useful life.  The Tire Belt shows off one way to do it, upcycling erstwhile trash heap fodder into a fashionable-looking accessory.
Creator Julien Jaborska, a self-professed bike-riding fanatic, scours junk piles, bike shop garbage bins and other places where bicycle refuse ends up for his finds.  His creations are sourced from a gamut of bicycle types, with pieces crafted out of tires from BMX bikes, mountain bikes, cyclocross bikes and whatever else he can get his hands on.

Naturally, each Tire Belt differs in design, colors and materials, depending on the original tires they were sliced out of.  As a result, some end up looking more awesome than others.  He adds black rubber for backing on every inch-wide belt, along with a buckle made from nickel-plated steel.
All belts get seven holes apiece, each one an inch [...]

Hello Rewind Turns Old Shirts Into New Laptop Sleeves

Got a favorite shirt from your college days that’s way past its usable prime?  Instead of letting it grow cobwebs in the closet, you may want to give it a second lease on life by sending it to Hello Rewind, who specializes in turning old shirts into new laptop sleeves.
Yep.  I’m talking about you, with your Only In My Dreams Debbie Gibson shirt from the 80s, your MC Hammer U Can’t Touch This oversized tee from the 90s and your PS2 windbreaker from that gaming expo back in 2000.  If you can’t part with the memories they carry, you might as well use them as more than mere hiding places for cockroaches in your attic.
Hello Rewind lets you ship your old shirts for turning into unique sleeves that can house 13-, 15- and 17-inch laptops.  They design it for Macbook Pros, but should fit similarly-sized, non-Apple notebooks too.  More than [...]

Rethink Hanger Finds A Novel Use For Discarded Water Bottles

Got a lot of empty water bottles at home?  If you’d rather use them for good, instead of landfill, the Rethink Hanger offers a pretty novel idea.  Use them to hang your clothes.
How exactly?  Well, the clever contraption acts like an unfinished hanger, with nothing but a hook to hang from and two holes that should accommodate plastic bottles on the sides.  All those used PET containers?  Simply screw them into the slots and use them as shoulders for your shirts and blouses to latch on to.

The Rethink Hanger is designed as a way to promote the reuse of what would otherwise be discards – water bottles and other similarly-sized plastic containers (they need to have 1-inch diameter heads).  Along the way, it has managed to be a more portable hanger, taking up considerably less space than conventional items – one which would prove incredibly useful if you like staying [...]

Envirobank Reverse Vending Machines Make Recycling Easier

Remember how vending machines made getting drinks and snacks way easier?  Envirobank is hoping the same happens to recycling with their “cash for cans” reverse vending machines.
Vending machines always worked the same way: we fed it money, it dropped down stuff.  Envirobank’s new devices turn the process around, taking in recyclables in exchange for discount coupons to nearby stores.  Instead of chucking your water bottles and softdrink cans the moment you’re done with them, the reverse vending machines can serve as an alternate destination, giving you a small token for your troubles and, hopefully, making you feel better about doing your part to reduce growing landfills all over the world.
Each Envirobank reverse vending machine can take up to 3,000 containers (deployed to a busy mall, I bet one machine can top out in an hour) and accept various types of recyclables, including PET bottles, green glass and aluminum cans.  Each [...]