Tag Archives : Recycling

Well, one doesn’t normally associate newspaper with luxury hotels and then see it win accolades in three different categories. Maybourne group of luxury hotels is making news in the world of creative design this time. ‘Contruct’ their publication/newspaper series has won three awards at the recent Anatalis Mc Naughton Review Design Awards 2010. [...]

All of us need incentives to get work done. Guess it is the same with recycling. RecycleBank is rewarding people with vouchers for recycling. Started in the US, RecycleBank runs its schemes in more than half the states, including Florida and Texas. Since the last one year it has also started operating in the United Kingdom at Halton in Cheshire, [...]

Well, this could be weirdest Halloween offer by any company for music lovers. Here is a company which is offering to sprinkle and press your ashes into vinyl records of your choice so that a part of your physical being lives on for generations in the form of vinyl sound recordings. Who doesn’t dream of afterlife? But no one in wildest of imagination [...]

Brazil has achieved in the past year a record of recycling aluminum cans. Were reused 98.2% of cans sold. In all, 198,800 tons of aluminum sold were recycled, from all 202,500 tons produced. The data collection in the balance sheet of the material released yesterday by the Brazilian Aluminum Association (Abal) and the Brazilian Association of Manufacturers [...]

Recycling waste products is one very important step that could delay global degradation, but the lack of willingness of people has always curbed the potential benefits of this measure, not any more! By next year the authorities in Cleveland will make it compulsory for everyone to recycle, failing which people will be charged with a fine of $100 and [...]

Michael Reynolds, architect, was convened by the United Nations (UN) to spearhead a project to build houses made from tires – which he said can easily be raised up to $ 50 and in just one day. For this, the architect defends a fundraising campaign in the face of large organizations to get the minimum amount of raw material required to bring this [...]

Nature has always provided us with solutions, but we never took the pains of realizing them. A group of insightful students at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Grenoble (ENSAG) in Madrid have drawn inspiration from nature and have constructed a house which can beat the scorching heat of the summers. As we step into the future we [...]

Could garbage be made attractive? Well, if you asked this question to the German artist H.A. Shult, he would certainly say, yes! This artist is a true environmental enthusiast and he wants his work to salvage the beaches all across the globe. In an effort to do so he made a hotel out of debris collected from the major beaches of Europe! Joann Plockova, [...]

Hydro Lance has come up with a highly imaginative and ambitious design till date. They have actually designed Boat Plane (or Float Plane) which is nothing but good old Boeing and Jet planes recycled and converted into passenger ferry and boat. Well, let us call this futuristic design because who knows in future old jets may get recycled into high [...]

To be honest there is nothing special about the sofa in the above picture, but what if I told you that it is made of recycled paper! Zebra print may be out of fashion but this method of recycling paper is certainly in. Mathia Bengtsson put together scraps of recycled paper and made this chic sofa. This sofa will compliment almost any kind of home decor [...]