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My wife came up with this custom magnet to solve the hesitation over which plastic bags the Ann Arbor waste management folks will take for recycling. We use it to pin one bag on our metal door in the laundry room and fill it up.
Yay for recycling!
These were a favourite pair of jeans that grew too small and went into holes... Now as a toiletries bag with lining, zip and outside pockets.... :-)
The small one in the foreground is a piece of practice weaving lined with repurposed sari silk.
I bought a huge cushion at Ikea's but didn't like the cover so I decided to make one myself. It looks like a giant cupcake in real (-:
(2) 96-gallon Toter EVR II trash carts (Basin Disposal of Walla Walla)
1.5-yard Rear Load Dumpster (Walla Walla Recycling, Inc.)
Milk Crates for Commercial Glass Recycling
Walla Walla, WA
January 2014
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me and my three girls admiring my facility to recycle anything! also used some rusty old tent pegs and the cord elastic from an old rucksac to peg out the base ....
I made a reusable grocery bag by fusing used plastic grocery bags into a more durable material. I used the fused material like fabric to sew this bag together. This is the first time I'm made something with a sewing machine. I think it turned out alright, seems very durable, each piece is six sheets fused together. It took me about 5 hours I think, I lose track of time whenever I'm making something. Someone with more skill than me could make just about anything out of the fused material. Seems like a good use for those plastic bags.
Clearly marked blue recycle bins are located around the Colorado State University Campus to encourage students to recycle, This is Public Health
I used my excess fabric to cut strips and bind the edges of the rug. I love it. It's a tiny weenie bit tedious but fits right in with the colour and texture. I tucked the ends under the top at the start, then the back for the finish of each worm.
Garbage is a problem. It is everywhere and never picked up. I think this worked in previous times because eventually it was naturally recycled, by consumption by other animals, decomposition, and fire. Now, however, there are so many plastics and other materials that don't decompose the refuse just hangs around.
The same thing happens in the "first world." We just hide it better.
Ice Mist Texture courtesy of pareeerica.
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Many thanks Parée!
Obviously only works for a dry bathroom, but this would make a beautiful little cabinet to store towels and soaps and things. Looking at this sun-striped photo, it seems as if you'd always feel you were on vacay at a fancy hotel. Just remember to roll up the towels super-tight!
This is Alex's Junk Revolution project for his Gardening class at school. He was tasked to build something out of household materials that would be thrown in the garbage. He used a wire coat hanger, old fence plank, Starbucks Frappuccino bottle, and a can of tuna to build this bird feeder. The idea was copied off of a web blogger who made a similar feeder. Alex's was slightly modified by using a clothes hanger, and bottle cap.
Cardboard, also referred to as corrugated cardboard, is a recyclable material that i recycled by small and large scale businesses to save money on waste disposal costs. Cardboard recycling is the reprocessing and reuse of thick sheets or stiff multilayered papers that have been used, discarded or regarded as waste. Cardboard boxes are usually heavy-duty or thick-sheets of paper known for their durability and hardness. Examples of cardboard include packaging boxes, egg cartoons, shoe boxes, and cereal boxes.
Recycling is good for us as it not only saves our environment from deterioration by reducing pollution but also conserves valuable resources and creates jobs. Cardboard recycling is done as a way of keeping the environment clean and green. The steps below provide an explanation of the cardboard recycling system.
Step-by-Step Process of Cardboard Recycling
1. Collection
Collection is the first step of recycling cardboard. Recyclers and businesses collect the waste cardboard at designated cardboard collection points. Majority of the collection points include trash bins, stores, scrap yards, and commercial outlets that generate cardboard waste. After collection, they are then measured and hauled to recycling facilities, mostly paper mills.
At this point, there are certain types of cardboard that are accepted while some are not depending on how they were used or manufactured. For instance, cardboard that are waxed and coated or used for food packaging are not accepted in most cases as they undergo different specialized recycling process.
2. Sorting
Once the corrugated boxes arrive at the recycling facility, they are sorted according to the materials they are made of. In most cases, they are classified into corrugated cardboard and boxboard. Boxboards are the ones that are thin such as those used for cardboard drink containers or cereals boxes while corrugated cardboard boxes are bigger and stiffer commonly used for packaging transport goods. Sorting is important since paper mills manufacture different grades of materials based on the materials being recovered.
3. Shredding and Pulping
After sorting is done, the next step is shredding then pulping follows. Shredding is done to break down the cardboard paper fibers into minute pieces. Once the material is finely shredded into pieces, it is mixed with water and chemicals to breakdown the paper fibers that turn it into a slurry substance.
This process is what is termed as pulping. The pulped material is then blended with new pulp, generally from wood chips that ultimately help the resulting substance to solidify and become firmer.
4. Filtering, conterminal removal and De-Inking
The pulpy material is then taken through a comprehensive filtering process to get rid of all the foreign materials present as well as impurities such as strings, tape or glue. The pulp further goes into a chamber where contaminants like plastics and metals staples are removed through a centrifuge-like process. Plastics float on top while the heavy metal staples fall to the bottom after which they are eliminated.
The next process, de-inking, involves putting the pulp in a floatation device made up of chemicals that takes away any form of dyes or ink via a series of filtering and screening. This step is also called the cleaning process as it cleans the pulp thoroughly to ensure it is ready for the final processing stage.
5. Finishing for reuse
At this stage, the cleaned pulp is blended with new production materials after which, it is put to dry on a flat conveyor belt and heated cylindrical surfaces. As the pulp dries, it is passed through an automated machine that press out excess water and facilitates the formation of a long rolls of solid sheet from the fibers called linerboards and mediums. The linerboards are glued together, layer by layer to make a new piece of cardboard.
In other cases, the medium is used as the corrugated sheet which is taken through two huge metal rolls with teeth to give it the ridges. Linerboards are then glued to the medium as the thin outer covering. Alternatively, the linerboards and mediums are ferried to boxboard manufacturers where the manufacturing process is completed by use of machines that shape and create crease along pattern folds to make the boxes used for packaging or transporting products.
Years ago we mistakenly started a tradition to hand make our Christmas cards. Shannon and I got to team up – her doing the paper crafts, me doing the photography. This was a great excuse for me to get my hands dirty and let out some creative hands-on desire. Cutting paper, gluing tags and stamping holiday scenes sure beats Photoshop. This year, we made the Christmas cards a bit more meaningful by using recycled material. While Shannon is hard at work on the sewing machine (pictures and blog posts to come soon I hope), I bring to you “The Recycled Christmas Card”.
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Recycling is a big thing here in China. There are guys like this all over town, I read somewhere that there are entire communities dedicated to recycling mountains of trucked-in trash, and there are even little old ladies peeking in all the rubbish bins looking for empty plastic bottles to sell for 2 cents each.
Felted wool hats made for my nieces Dec. 2006 using recycled sweaters. The side designs were needle felted on my Bernina.
This is the second bag I've made using my recycled sheets of italian upholstery fabric.
It's 100% recycled:
- upholstery fabric from old pattern book
- recycled leather
- hardware saved from an old bag
- sand linen fabric from clothing for the lining.
Available.
Pattern by me! :)
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There were little pieces of what looked like recycled paper everywhere, laying around and amongst the old machine parts
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My name is Costas Schuler, graphic designer, recycle artist and funny man, also known as The Pen Guy creator of the Mercedes Pens Art Car covered in 10,000 pens.
In 2005 I had a fantastic idea to collect pens and glue them on my 1981 Mercedes Benz 300SD, affectionately called the Mercedes Pens. So far I have managed to collect over 70,000 pens locally and from around the world, the first 10,000 used pens ending up on the art car. Now that the Mercedes Pens is totally covered in pens I am launching phase two of my master plan to find homes for the other 60,000+ used pens I have piled up and over flowing at my house.
My solution is to create beautiful art using used pens and put them up for display in all over the world. I recently got about 30,000 from terracycle and in return created a penting for their conference room. The Second one is currently on display at the Greentivites exhibit at the sonoma county fair. I have many more pens and many more ideas for murals coming up.
I plan to continue collecting pens locally and from around the world so please gather all those old pens cluttering up your space and send them to:
The Pen Guy 6484 Mirabel Road #994 Forestville, CA 95436
++ More information at The Pen Guy and Mercedes Pens Art Car website !
Idea sent by costas schuler !
I think these are ace, I love DIY.
These recycled toys are made by students at the Royal College of Furniture.
Created by Carmen Björnald of CeeBee Recycle. Blogged: www.allthingspaper.net/2014/04/recycled-fashion-accessori...