Topic “recycle”
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Kate Moss modeling upcycled mozzie nets for Malaria. Dress by William Tempest. Sport Relief for charity - tackling Malaria in Africa.
Wasn't that Ugly Betty's idea?
(via greengrownsexy)
Plastiki
12,000 plastic bottles have been put together and now are on sail across the Pacific.
Plastiki is an upcycled plastic boat that started it's journey in San Fransisco and now makes it's way across the ocean to Australia. Stopping off at islands along the way, the crew on board look to learn and highlight environmental issues facing the Pacific islands with a mission to open eyes to re-thinking waste and it's possibilities as a resource.
High on cradle-to-cradle thinking, Plastiki's founder David de Rothschild was alarmed by the garbage patch story and got inspired to create an expedition to push understanding on the waste we produce and the innovation that is necessary to close the cycle.
Follow their journey here.
Recycled Rabbits
Rabbit Amnesty pledges to take that tired old vibrator of yours and give you a brand new one at half the price. The new vibrator in question is that famed Jessica Rabbit.
Your old one gets recycled, part of your new rabbit's half-price payment goes to Sir David Attenborough (or, World Land Trust) and then they say we'll be enjoying things called 'ecogasms'.
Pledge right here.
Guns and the London Olympics
London gets creative with the recycling in the vein of the Shanghai CD Case Pavilion. After confiscating over 52 tonnes of scrap metal from keys, guns and knives last year, they've decided to melt it all down and turn it into their Olympic stadium.
As Inhabitat note, the London Metropolitan Police have been looking for ways to lighten they're carbon load, and this is their most recent scheme in a line of bullet, uniform and body armour recycling to onward photo frame, jewellery, cooking oil and horse manure production.
Spreading the Stuff
Though spreading pre-loved stuff quick-fast in Asia is little more than leaving it curbside for two minutes, there are projects out there who get it into a more community-driven action-aware place:
Subscribing to the spirit of 'worldwide gifting', Freecycle has already set up global chapters that have come together to organise relief projects and given us the easy-efficient recycling option.
Taking bulk collection days global, Give Your Stuff Away Day, May 15 2010.
And Really Really Free Market Days, where they believe in coming together under sunshine and offering everything really really free.
Frietag's Compost
Upcycled bag frontrunner Frietag cooked up some soup for 100 guests, gave them 100 limited edition compost bags and got those guests to pledge to bring back their compost 3 weeks later. The compost bin began with that days soup scraps.
Part of Vienna Design Week 09, the Urban Gardening installation.
Dreamy
Seoul based design studio Unplug have dreamt up the Dream Ball. In areas of famine, aid is distributed, soccer balls are a luxury, and play can certainly benefit the situation.
Aid distributed is usually packaged in boxes, but Unplug want to change that. Transforming the usual single-use packaging into perforated cardboard boxes - which can be cut and woven into balls of different sizes by the receivers themselves.
Shanghai Recycles!
The Shanghai Corporate Pavilion for the 2010 Shanghai Expo is being built from recycled CD cases. The polycarbonates and thermoplastics can be heated and reformed, leading the architects to suggest that they melt it all down once their done with it.
There's also a 1600 square metre solar heat-collecting tube on the roof, which will be used to generate electricity and "produce hot water, up to 95 degrees centigrade". As well as an "LED lights and mist making system", which will be used to change the outward appearance of the building.
I'm wondering who's going to be taking all those hot showers.
(via Treehugger)
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