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Recycling & Reuse

How about Sewranee Springs? Effluessence?

March 16, 2009

Yea, marketing! With a strategic sleight of hand, we can plaster a new name over something less pleasant and magically change everyones’ perceptions! Los Angeles is on to this trick, [...]

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Post-Festival Fate of the Metheun Tree

February 18, 2009

Sometimes I’d just stare and think…I wonder what’s become of her? Just a couple months ago we wrote about plastic bottle holiday trees, including this recyclarific example from the 2008 Methuen (Massachussetts) [...]

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Creative Thinkers Hit the Bottle

February 2, 2009

www.instructables.com, in partnershp with Tap’dNY, is running a “Keep the Bottle” Contest calling for great ideas to recycle and reuse plastic bottles. Tap’d is an organization that has been very [...]

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Trendy Store, Trashy Decor

January 14, 2009

It’s one thing to claim “trash to treasure” but it’s another to greet your customers with it and hang it from your ceiling. And have all be in awe of [...]

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Water Bottle Christmas Trees

December 19, 2008

Seen In Bangkok, Thailand in 2007, photograph from Flickr by Rob in London. 2007 in Malta, a tree constructed with 4100 bottles by the students of San Swann primary school [...]

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The aesthetics of recycling: Blooms

October 24, 2008

Behold the beauty that lies in your waste bin. These ethereal blooms are made from water bottles by RodPujante. Amazingly, he uses no glue or fasteners, just the repurposed bottles. [...]

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