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Headbanging Recycled Heavy Metal T-Shirt Quilts By Ben Venom (Photos)

3:11 pm in artists, crafts, designers, recycled, recycled consumer goods, san francisco by TreeHugger

benvenom1.jpgPhotos: Ben Venom Like combining heavy metal and vegan cuisine, the tough masculine image of this extreme musical genre may seem at odds with the folksy domesticity of quilting. Yet American artist Ben Venom skillfully reconciliates these two opposites, using vintage heavy metal t-shirts as the raw material for his incredible quilts. Similar to traditional quilts which commemorate a family history by stitching together salvaged pieces of fabric, Venom's insane patchwork quilts offe...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Stylish Recycled Sawdust & "Shavings" Furniture By Yoav Avinoam

11:00 am in designers, furniture, israel, recycled, recycled consumer goods by TreeHugger

yoavavinoam1.jpg Photos: Yoav Avinoam Sawdust is a multi-purpose "waste" material that can apparently be reused in many ways: turn it into mulch, throw it by the handful into a composting toilet, or transform it into furniture as Israeli designer Yoav Avinoam has done with his down-to-earth but stylish "Shavings" furniture collection....Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Replacing Boxes With Bags, Office Depot Tries to Save 20,000 Trees

11:44 am in Business & Politics, eco-friendly office, green packaging, recycled consumer goods, shopping by TreeHugger

Office Depot GreenerOffice photo Image: Screenshot via Office Depot Office Depot says it expects to save 3.5 million pounds of wood-based resources by offering to deliver orders in paper bags instead of boxes—which will also eliminate the use of those plastic 'air-pillows' that you can almost never repurpose once you've opened your package. The program, GreenerOffice Delivery Service, uses bags made with 40% post-consumer recycled content. Those come wrapped in what Office Depot calls a reusable plastic tote, mad...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Designer Turns Moving Day Discards Into Charming Furniture

11:11 am in canada, designers, furniture, montreal, recycled, recycled consumer goods by TreeHugger

marjolainepoulin3.jpgPhotos: Marjolaine Poulin Like America's Independence Day, Canada's day commemorating its inception as a nation falls on July 1st every year. But in the province of Quebec, July 1st is also known as La Fête du déménagement -- or "Moving Day." Chaos reigns as it's the day when many rental leases expire and almost a quarter million people move en masse. It's also a field day for free stuff, due to the fact that not all belongings make it t...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Recycled Clothes & Resin For Funky Furniture By Tobias Juretzek

10:03 am in designers, furniture, germany, recycled, recycled consumer goods, recycled fashion by TreeHugger

rememberme2.jpgPhotos: Tobias Juretzek From farmhouse beams, to refrigerators and naval mines, furniture made from old -- and odd -- materials is nothing new, but what about furniture that's made from clothing? Defying expectations of what mere clothing can do,...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Awesome Vertical Garden With Recycled PET Bottles At Poor Family Home In Sao Paulo

8:30 am in brazil, Design & Architecture, gardening, recycled consumer goods, small spaces by TreeHugger

Vertical Garden With Recycled PET Bottles In Sao Paulo Photo Photos: Rosenbaum. Brazilian design studio Rosenbaum collaborates with TV show Caldeirao do Huck in a segment called Lar doce lar (Home Sweet Home), which helps families in need re-designing their homes to improve their lives and self-esteem. In its latest work for a family living in the outskirts of Sao Paulo...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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‘Fragile’ Ecosystem Sculpture Of 100% Recycled Materials By Roadsworth

2:15 pm in artists, arts, Design & Architecture, montreal, recycled consumer goods, urban life by TreeHugger

roadsworth2.jpgImage: Screengrab from Fragile project video Montréal street artist Peter Gibson, a.k.a. Roadsworth, well-known for his clandestine and eye-catching works of pavement art -- is back in Montréal making his mark again. But this time, instead of being arrested for using spray paint for the greater urban good, he and artist Brian Armstrong have turned to recuperated materials like plastic bottles and cardboard to make a large-scale art installation mimicking an ecosystem, now on exhibit in a downtown Montréal...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Newspapers Recycled Into Paper Timber & Furniture by Mieke Meijer / Vij5

10:03 am in designers, materials, netherlands, recycled consumer goods by TreeHugger

miekemeijer1a.jpgPhotos: Vij5 website From do-it-yourself cat litter to hand-rolled jewelry beads and mulch, newspapers can offer versatile options for re-use after they've been read. From Dutch designer Mieke Meijer comes what she calls "NewspaperWood," which can actually be made into furni...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Pre-loved Fabrics Made Into Psychedelic Furniture: Design By Leftovers

4:15 pm in Design & Architecture, designers, furniture, recycled consumer goods, sweden by TreeHugger

design by leftovers photoPhotos: Design By Leftovers website If your Victorian-style divan started having an intense psychedelic experience, it would probably look something like these stunning pieces by Swedish design duo Linda and Jona Netsman of Design By Leftovers. Adapting the principle of creative re-use in their motto "pre-loved can be re-loved," they recycle luxurious fabric scraps from old garments to re-upholster and re-fashion antique pieces of furniture into a mind-melting feast of colours and textures -- definitely not intended for the f...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Zero Electricity Lighting With Plastic Bottles, Taken From Brazil To Chile (Video)

10:45 am in chile, Design & Architecture, do it yourself, lighting, recycled consumer goods, Take Action by TreeHugger

Zero Electricity With Water Bottles Installed In Chile Photo Photo: Miguel Merchand. Almost ten years ago, during a blackout, a man from the Uberaba region in the outskirts of Minas Gerais, Brazil, invented a way to lighten the interior of houses during the day using plastic bottles filled with water and a bit of bleach, an idea Jaymi reviewed a couple of months ago. Inlaid in the corrugated iron roofs, the bottles concentrate and transport sunlight generating...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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