Old PVC banners are transformed to aesthetic hand bags.....

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London-based product designer Oscar Diaz has designed Tube Toys, which range from a fire truck to a train to a tractor. The toys are packaged in tubes that hold the wheels, accessories and labels that are required to be assembled.

The only piece that is discarded after assembly is the paper label outside the tube, and all of the components are recyclable or made of recycled materials.

http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/design-architecture/designer-turns-tubes-into-trains-trucks-but-not-trash/4323

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A creative way to reuse plastic soda bottles - grow plants in them and place them anywhere in the house - as a decorative item or as something functional.

This concept gives us 2 ways to 'go green' -
u grow more plants and
u throw less plastic!

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This old Vespa scooter converted into a desk brings to life similar emotions. It has been designed by David Giametta who used the frame of the genuine 1968 Vespa Piaggo scooter and mounted a laptop over its handlebars, and placed a few books on its back seat.

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Swiss artist Valérie Buess converts books into tentacled sea organisms that she brings to life by hand.

Buess' works are created through endless rolling, shredding and twisting the pages of books into organic forms -- sometimes resembling corals, sea urchins, or some other mythical creature of the watery depths.

The patterns of text are left visible in her pieces, and Buess also employs the judicious use of colour -- a bit here, a bit there, or a suggestive tone all over -- to bring her works to life, like this cluster of purplish sea urchins -- which look like they would tickle quite a bit.

http://www.treehugger.com/culture/valerie-buess-books-recycled-books-paper-sculptures.html?campaign=daily_nl

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Every responsible and sustainable Earthizen believes in Recycling as a very important part of Green Living so as to take advantage of already existing processed material to avoid the use of more resources and raw material.
What many of us forget is that before Recycling, come the 2 other Rs - Reduce and Reuse.
To Reduce is as important as it brings down the energy spent on production and also reduces the requirement of the resources that are used to produce the object. 
Next comes Reuse - which basically prevents the need to recycle at all if an object can be…

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Three Stacks eco-hotel are especially interesting, in addition to their energy-efficient lighting and architectural form that is native to the region.

Conceived by Ukrainian designer Levko Davydyuk, the Three Stacks eco-hotel complex consists of three buildings, a concept which is intended for various heritage sites around the Ukraine. Two of the project's buildings will offer four-storey guest accommodations, while the other building will house a restaurant.

Made from natural materials (which we assume will be sourced locally), Yanko Design states that the site's design -- demonstrated by a curving fence that weaves throughout the property -- will "[link the three buildings] through modern energy-efficient lighting in combination with landscape elements also native to the region."

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Artist Agustina Woodgate makes her skin rugs out of recycled stuffed animals. Keep her away from your cherished teddy bear.

Her Skin Rug series, which we came across on Sight Unseen, consists of a group of rugs made out of dissembled stuffed animals and turned into large quilt-like rugs that almost look like a kaleidoscope.

The rugs are themed around different colours, based on what is available. For example, black is not that common or available in animals, whilst brown and white old animals are more popular.

The inspiration for the project came from her own precious teddy bear, Pepe. She was looking at it one day, without eyes and worn to bits (sound familiar?) and decided that, as told to Sight Unseen, "the teddy bear wasn’t real. It was simply an object. But I also didn’t want to throw it away. That’s when I decided wanted to do something with the bear."

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It's difficult to imagine the equating of weathered construction plywood with a painter's brush stroke, but that what Brazilian artist Henrique Oliveira does with his impressive three-dimensional sculptures made entirely out of layers upon layers of pieces of peeled, old plywood, collected from various construction sites around Sao Paulo.

Originally a painter, Oliveira began making his sculptures -- some of which look something like gigantic roots bursting into a room -- after spying an old, peeling wooden fence outside of his studio. He intuitively saw the peeling strips of wood as something similar to that of a brushstroke laid down by a painter's hand, and since then, has worked with aged plywood in this way, much like a painter would colour a canvas.

To make his sculptures, which range from the enormous to smaller pieces, he gathers plywood strips of all shapes and sizes, before layering them into forms that are sometimes also painted over, in order to give an illusion of uniform smoothness.

Plywood is an inexpensive and abundant material for fencing, and instead of leaving old fences to crumble, Oliveira transforms the linearity of such a humble material into mind-boggling and eye-catching spaces, punctuated by tendrils or mounds of almost-living forms. Other times, Oliveira creates cavernous canyons out of this salvaged material, ones that visitors can inhabit.

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Italian artist, ecologist and sculptor Ivano Vitali brings together two favourite themes: knitting and recycling. And he does it all with old newspaper. It's an intricate and detailed process and the result is a series of delicate dresses that are unique and one-of-a-kind.

Ivano Vitali weaves clothing, mittens, and scarves from recycled newspapers, tearing the paper into strips, and sorting it by colours so that he doesn't have to use dyes. Then he twists the paper into strips, and makes it into a ball of paper "wool". Using special knitting needles, he knits and crotchets the paper into bikinis, dresses, shawls and gloves.

Vitali works in Florence, Italy. He started out as a sculptor, but in 1995 decided to stop using traditional materials. As he says "I think that people's creativity should be expressed without harming man or environment, since nature is a wonderful gift, received when we are born, and we are committed to handing it over to future generations. I elected waste paper as the only medium for the realisation of my works."

The colours and patterns are determined by the kind of paper--glossy or coloured, thick or heavy--and the photos and words on it. He uses neither dyes nor glue in the construction of the thread. It is made by "overlapping and twisting" the paper strips. The method of knitting or purling that he uses also is important. He acknowledges that it may not be the most comfortable thing to wear.

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The Junk Castle is an eye-catching building. Its brights colors, turrets and spires are reminiscent of a Disney castle- but made out of junkyard scraps, not shining brick. Built by high school teacher Vic Moore for his Master of Fine Arts thesis in 1970, it's made from material collected at the county dump, including washing machine parts, dryer doors, bedsteads, and the door of a 1952 Oldsmobile.

County authorities had no power to block the unorthodox castle's construction, as it was built for less than $500. The Junk Castle became something of a tourist destination, to the point where Moore became reluctant to talk about it for fear of drawing too many strangers to the site.

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Industrial pipes reused for making book shelves

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Market Research Report Collections - Industry Outlook Series - http://www.strategyr.com/Environmental_and_Waste_Management_Industry_Market_Report.asp

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Starbucks opened its first coffee shop made out of recycled shipping containers in Tukwila, Washington, south of Seattle. Built from just four shipping containers, the shop will be a drive-up and walk-up only, so leave your laptop at home.

The store was built to LEED standards, using green energy, water efficiency, and, of course, construction material from recycled content. It’s part of a global initiative by the company to green their buildings.

http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/cities/starbucks-opens-store-made-from-recycled-shipping-containers/1629

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Mukul Chandra Bora, Lecturer (Selection Grade), Department of Civil Engineering, Dibrugarh Polytechnic, Lahowal, Assam Introduction With the exponential growth in number of automobiles in India - http://www.nbmcw.com/articles/concrete/waste-material-by-product/20090-sustainable-concrete-with-scrap-tyre-aggregate.html

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Visiting some village schools in rural India, artist Shilpa Joglekar was struck by what she described as the "starkness in their environment" -- bare dirt lots with nowhere for kids to play. Utilizing scrap from junkyards that was plentiful in the area, she enlisted local students and teachers to build their own recycled-material play structures.

Read More: http://www.treehugger.com/urban-design/recycled-play-structures-bring-joy-rural-schools.html

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London-based designer Inghua Ting has taken used men’s belts and reworked the leather into twelve or eighteen inch flooring tiles.

The tiles are gorgeous and hard-wearing, and can be used for anything from flooring to bar tops to walls. The salvaged belts are stripped of the metal, cleaned and bonded to a reconstituted leather backing. Each belt is hand picked for the quality of the leather, and each tile is completely unique.

http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/design-architecture/designer-turns-discarded-belts-into-durable-and-beautiful-tiles/3205

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Using a reclaimed milk crate, the piece acts as an additional bike seat for carrying a passenger or it can be converted back into a crate for carting your groceries home. Very neat, very low tech, and a great way to add capacity and adaptability to that greenest of machines—the bicycle.

"Two Go" was short listed as one of the entries in the Seoul Cycle competition run by designboom and the Seoul Design Foundation back in 2010.

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The “Chain Rocker” is a very distinctive rocking chair made of recycled bicycle chains and tires. BRC Designs layered these reclaimed materials upon a steel support structure which is, itself, composed of 98% recycled steel. Each one has a decidedly heavy metal-esque look that would appeal to bikers and rockers alike.

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Using salvaged building materials like doors in your next building project is a good idea, but South Korean installation artist Choi Jeong-Hwa takes it to a whole new level. Using 1,000 recycled doors, Choi Jeong-Hwa transformed an otherwise nondescript, 10-storey facade into a eye-dazzling delight of colours and textures.

http://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/artist-transforms-building-facade-1000-recycled-doors-choi-jeong-hwa.html?campaign=daily_nl

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