Check out this Lucky Shamrock plant from our friends at Kelly Box. The planting containers are made of their corrugated packaging. According to Kelly, corrugated packaging has the best recycling rate of any packaging material used today. It is durable and can be used again and again until it is ultimately sold back to manufacturers to make the next generation of corrugated packages. According to our research, corrugated packaging could also be composted because it is biodegradable. When packaging is necessary, corrugated is a great choice. Thank you Kelly …
This beautiful bowl is the work of 26 year old Jerusalem born Ruti. Ruti has always enjoyed art and comes from a family of artists. In recent years, she has discovered the magic of folding recycled papers into beautiful creations. Through this work she was able to combine her passion for shaping and color-matching, with her love for nature and preserving the environment by using discarded materials. The paper she uses includes: magazines, loose-leaf folder covers, tea-bag covers, maps and various other paper. Her pieces truly speak for …
Ready to replace your plastic baggies with an eco-friendly alternative? Then check out Lunchskins. For years I have been trying to figure out an alternative to plastic baggies. I have made little fabric baggies and they kind of work but they don’t contain anything that is messy very well and then you need to wash them in the washer. You can try glass containers or reusable plastic containers that can be easily recycled. Let me tell you, they just don’t cut it. The functionality of plastic baggies …
Ever wonder what happens to old movie posters and billboards? Well the good folks at ReMakes certainly did. They came up with the great idea of taking discarded billboards and movie posters and cutting them into placemats. The placemats come in sets of four that have been cut from the same poster. So the placemats in a set will coordinate with each other but each will be different and unique. They also sell, a chic all black version.The placemats are trendy and can be easily wiped off. You can …
Monochrome Recycled Bikes purchase used and old bike parts in bulk. Then they dismantle and sandblast them before creating custom bikes for their clients. To read more about them look here. Seventh Generation, the nation’s leading brand of non-toxic household and personal care products, introduced a new liquid laundry detergent bottle made from 100 percent recycled cardboard and newspaper. This lovely bowl is upcycled from a 12″ vinyl record. Look here for her Etsy Shop. We love to see this! Euroshield manufactures roofing materials made from …
