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Bangalore's garbage crisis and America's invisible trash
Noah Sachs uses the years-long Bangalore garbage crisis to ask some pointed questions about America's secretive waste-disposal industry, which treats the treatment of American waste as a...
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Lights and chandeliers made from booze bottles and books
The Moonshine Lamp Company makes beautiful lights out of booze bottles, such as the Crystal Skull Sconce and the eight-bottle chandelier; but they also make lights out of hardcovers, including one...
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Hot-air balloon made from recycled plastic bags
Argentine artist TomĆ”s Saracen's installation, Becoming Aerosolar, is a gigantic hot-air balloon made from recycled plastic bags. (moreā¦)
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Right to repair is under assault in New York, and you can save it!
New York is one of four states considering legislation that would guarantee your right to get your stuff fixed by independent repair centers, curbing manufacturers' attempts to limit access to...
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Surprisingly beautiful chandelier made from toilets
Upcycler extraordinaire Rodney Allen Trice turned salvage toilet bowls into designer lighting! From Refitting the Planet: To contribute my ideas and vision and energies in the arena of creative...
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Amazing photos from Kinshasa's scrap car-parts megamarket
The NāDjili district of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo is home to an enormous market of scrap auto-parts, carefully salvaged from Japan's waste-stream and meticulously arrayed on blankets by...
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Animal sculptures made of recycled tires
Baseball player Blake McFarland makes cool stuff in the off season, including these sculptures made of old tires: (moreā¦)
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Millions of lead-filled CRTs have been abandoned in warehouses across America
The swift replacement of CRT screens with flat panels created tons of extremely toxic e-waste, with dangerous tubes and leaded glass posing unique environmental and safety hazards for disposal workers...
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Prison inmates built working PCs out of ewaste, networked them, and hid them...
Inmates in Ohio's Marion Correctional Institution smuggled computer parts out of an ewaste recycling workshop and built two working computers out of them, hiding them in the ceiling of a training room...
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Lampshade made of repurposed prescription bottles
Emily Seilhamer specializes in upcycling everyday things. Here's a ton of amber prescription bottles repurposed as a cool lampshade. It also doubles as the world's worth windchime. (moreā¦)
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Manga shredded to make toilet paper
Brian Ashcraft on what happens to returned and defective comic books in Japan....
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The used cars that Europe sends to Nigeria are filled with illegal, toxic...
EU and Nigerian law both ban the export of e-waste to Nigeria, but a new study jointly authored by scholars from UN University and the Basel Convention Coordinating Centre for Africa found that...
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Microsoft sends recycler to jail for reinstalling obsolete, licensed copies...
Eric Lundgren is an environmental hero, whose California business diverts literal tons of e-waste from landfills, refurbishes it, and puts it in the hands of people who can make good use of it. (moreā¦)
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Sneakers made from Amsterdammers' used bubble-gum
https://youtu.be/f155BH2MErE Gumshoe sneakers are made with rubber derived in part from gum chewed by residents of Amsterdam, made jointly with Gumdrop, whose gum recycling bins are used to collect...
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Jimmy Fallon sure does love this CAPTCHA joke
Jimmy Fallon often features viewer submissions like mildly humorous CAPTCHAs, you know, "those squiggly words you have to type in before you buy tickets to concerts and stuff?" He seems very invested...
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Modular floating park made of reclaimed plastic debris
Dutch project Recycled Park is a riverside area with 28 plastic planters made from debris skimmed from the river. Watch how they built it. On July 4th the first Recycled Park opened in the Rotterdam...
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This Jenga set is made of recycled fishing nets
About 10% of plastic ocean pollution is ghost nets, the countless lost or abandoned fishing nets that maim and kill marine life. Jenga Ocean, made of recycled nets, tries to raise awareness, recycle...
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Artist creates enormous colorful sculptures by reusing single-use materials
Anyone who has ever worked on making a parade float knows how time-consuming the process is. Artist Crystal Wagner takes it to the next level with her gigantic amorphous abstract works. The Bedford...
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