Swedish designer Maria Westerberg earned this year’s Green Furniture Award for a design that recycles old shirts and other fabric by weaving it into a wire chair frame.
In addition to the earth-friendly design, the chair is also intended to tell a story using fabric that’s worn out but has some sort of meaning or sentimental value—like Grandma’s curtains, your favorite pair of jeans, or those Frankie Says Relax t-shirts you wore in the ’80s.
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The medals you will see around the necks of athletes at this year’s Vancouver Olympics may include bit and pieces of your old TVs , computers and cellphones. In an effort to focus more on sustainability, Olympic organizers had gold, sliver and bronze stripped from the waste and incorporated into the medal design from Omer Arbel and Corrine Hunt. Check out the video after the break to learn more about the process.
Do you have a shirt like this in your closet? Yeah, definitely dated. Instead of tossing it our using it as a love rag, why not recycle it into a sweet laptop sleeve? All you need to do is purchase a 13 or 15-inch laptop sleeve from Hello Rewind and they will send you a pre-paid envelope for your shirt. Within 4-8 weeks, your laptop will have something new to wear.
You may be able to crush the droids in war, but the real test of your humanity is how you deal with it afterward. Leaving the shattered pieces to rust is wasteful, using your recycling bin to dispose of them is the thoughtful way to clean up.
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Homer seems to have the right idea. If you are going to recycle, the more the better. So rather than just tossing a beer can or two into the bin every week, toss a couple twelve packs in a night. He’s just doing his part for the environment.
