Budget-Savvy Storage - Recycled Kitchen Gadgets As Decor (GALLERY)

Dining on Recycled Traffic Signs (GALLERY)

Metal Work by Boris Bally

Since we first featured Boris Bally’s creative street sign coasters, his designs have expanded to include dishware, cutlery, furniture and mailboxes. If you’re just looking for a little hit of street decor…
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Street Light Seating

Light Up Your Crib With Recycled Walk/Don't Walk Chair

Looking for a uniquely cool piece of recycled art for your hip and happening home? New York city contemporary artist John Carter makes the "Road Tested Chair" from old Walk / Don't Walk traffic lights.…

Recycled Steel Fire Pits (GALLERY)

Great Bowls of Fire

Artist John T. Unger says that in a way the 'bubble bursting' on the dot-com craze may have been one of the best things that happened to him. By “putting the kibosh on financing my art habit through freelance…

Hip Kitchen Composting (GALLERY)

The 'Bio Pod' for Organic Waste

It is inevitable that putting organic food waste in landfills will be restricted or even prohibited in the years to come. With this in mind, designers are creating new, attractive ways to help home owners…

Chic Recycled Jewellery (GALLERY)

Holly Anne Mitchell's Newspaper Jewellery

Holly Anne Mitchell changes losing lottery tickets into a revenue generating enterprise. The American artist designs and constructs her line of jewellery out of recycled paper products. Mitchell uses expired…

Oil Barrel Chairs

Recycled Furniture by Vaho Works

Reworking trash into fabulous designs is what Vaho Works does best. According to the brand, it is "the most complete beauty salon for PVC plastics, awnings, high tech materials, metals and many more things."…

Recycled Tire Seating (GALLERY)

The DIY Re-Tyre Lounger

TrendHunter.com has featured many ecological furniture designs that use recycled car parts, but it does not get any simpler or more effective than this Re-Tyre seat. No re-processing or complex manufacturing…

Recycled Football Furniture (GALLERY)

Green Designs for Soccer Fans

Europeans are the happiest football fans in the world this year. With the Euro 2008 championship ending (this Sunday we will know who is going to the the European champion), every single European that…

Recycled Garbage Projections (GALLERY)

Eco Shadow Sculpting

Tim Noble and Sue Webster create art with shadows used by beaming a protected light on a heap of garbage. The sculpting of each mound of trash is done so precisely, the resulting image is eerily perfect.…

Motorcyle Art

Motorbike Concept from Recycled VCR and PC parts

You really have to see this one to believe it.  At first glance, I even questioned whether the picture was created with the magic of Adobe PhotoShop. The artist, Alex Andromeda created this model in…

Recycled Sports Equipment

Abteil Soccer Ball Handbag (for EURO 2008?)

Fashionista soccer mom’s now have the chicest bag to carry their minivan keys in. The soccer ball handbag designed by the company Abteil (translated from German means ‘compartment’) is made from…

Recycled Bottle Chandeliers (GALLERY)

PET Lights

Walking Things (Vienna, Austria) has come out with a great recycling solution for some of the PET (polyethylene terephthalate) plastic beverage bottles you might have lying around. They make the lighting…

Recycled Junk Mail Tables

ReVision Furniture

The goal of the teenage artists apprenticing at Artists for Humanity was to create a green furniture line. After considerable time and development they came up with ReVision furniture which is made from…

Animals Made of Recycled Electronics (GALLERY)

Eco Art-Deco Machinery

Designed by Ann Smith, these unique robotic animals are a creative method of recycling old electronics and machine parts. As toys, art, or environmental statements, the marketing possibilities are endless.…

Recycled Mattress Chairs (GALLERY)

Madam Rubens Stool

Frank Willems is a Dutch designer who found a way to recycle old mattresses. The reason they weren't recyclable was because they got stuck in the shredders. Getting creative, Willems folded them up in…

Recycled Can Landmarks (GALLERY)

Coca-Cola Sculptures

When you contribute a huge amount of waste into the environment, and the world is suddenly aware of the issue, putting a spin on your waste is highly desirable. Coca-Cola arranged for some fine artists…

Recycled Packaging DIY (GALLERY)

FedEx Furniture

One enterprising man has saved a lot of money by making all his furniture out of used FedEx boxes and packaging supplies. The furniture is not just for show; he actually sleeps on the bed, eats at his…

Recycled Office Cabinet Shelves

Drawerment

This ingenious wall storage system is made up of recycled office furniture. The collection of old office drawers are “flying freely over walls, desks and floors.” The Drawerment certainly breaks up…

Recycled Clothes Cushions

Jacket Pillows

These pillows designed by Ximena Orozco are really fantastic. Orozco created a whole line of jacket pillows and each one comes with a story printed on the label inside. There is something about these pillows…

Top 24 Recycled Bottle Innovations (SUPER GALLERY)

Plastic bottles continue to make their way to landfills, despite growing awareness for the environmental damage they cause. PET bottles in particular have a devastating effect on the environment. Bringing…

Top 21 Recycled Plastic Bag Creations (SUPER GALLERY)

You know plastic bags are bad for the environment, but did you know that, when reused, they can make beautiful pieces of art too? Plastic really can be fantastic, as shown by a recent exhibit of reused…

Recycled Stir Stick Chandeliers (GALLERY)

Studio Veríssimo Eco Lights

Each day, millions of plastic coffee stirrers are thrown out after a two-second stir at coffee shops. This chandelier by Studio Veríssimo was created out of hundreds of plastic stir sticks, acting as…

Recycled Washing Machine Tables

Reestore's Silvana

Not everyone is enamored with soft recycled organic material... you know, the hemp, the bamboo wood and so on. If contemporary style is more to your taste, then this recycled table made from a discarded…

Recycled Fence Totes

ORNJ Bags

Those plastic orange construction fences are brightly coloured because they are meant to catch your attention. Alas, they are also easily spotted as litter in fields and construction sites. Fortunately,…

Recycled Bottle Ceilings (GALLERY)

Aesop's High Glass Boutique

This is further proof that sustainability does not have to look boring, drab and pedestrian. Australia-based brand Aesop, which specializes in boutique botanical skincare products, built a retail store…

Recycled Fluorescent Bulbs

Recycled Tube Light

Castor Canadensis, a group of Canadian craftsmen and artists, has a solution for all those defunct tubular fluorescent tubes. They merged several together around some incandescent light-bulbs to form what…

Vintage Fashion for Dogs (GALLERY)

bentley B Recycled Tees

By now you've probably heard that recycled fashion and accessories are must-haves for the style savvy. Not wanting to leave any life untouched by the eco-chic movement, bentley B created a line of recycled…

Recycled Soda Can Jewelry (GALLERY)

Eco Art by the Disabled

Most people know about fair trade coffee, but there are also fair trade artisans who stand to gain a better standard of living if what they produce fetches fair prices. The Mombulu Workshop in Mombasa,…

Top 12 Designs From Recycled Car Parts (SUPER GALLERY)

Before sending your car to the junkyard, you might want to reconsider salvaging some of the parts. The following 12 pieces of Trend Candy illustrate the recycled designs that can be created with old car…

Recycled Robot Jewelry (GALLERY)

Obvious Front

D Young, the artisan behind Obvious Front, makes the funkiest robot earrings, pendants and ornaments from recycled parts of old TV and VCR. The quirky, humorous bots are assembled from capacitors, wires,…

Recycled Electric Toothbrush Gadgets (VIDEO)

Bristlebot/Brushbot

Old toothbrushes can be used for all sorts of things - cleaning greasy engine parts, scrubbing hard-to-reach toilet nooks, and creating robotic artists. The folks at Evil Mad Science Laboratories discovered…

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