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From Trash to Treasure

Amanda Rappak
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Recycled decor gives new life to otherwise unusable objects.

There are entire photostreams on the photo-sharing website, Flickr, dedicated to cataloguing consumer items destined for landfill. But many people are trying to come up with a solution to non-recyclable packaging –artists in particular are responding to the challenge to recreate, reinvent and redesign the things which seem to have lost their value. Check out this collection of inventive and inspiring objects remade to have new form and function, and use them as inspiration to get crafty at home! 
Photo credit Flickr.com/Wonderlane

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i work in 1 of 7 casinos in laughlin nv and not one of them recycles i collected 1 days worth of beer bottle caps (12 pounds) of caps and i have tried to find things to do with them but there not recycleable nobody wants them but also do you know how much glass, and alunimum and plastic we throw away they say its not cost efficent for us to recycle but if im willing in my daily job to collect what i can how can that cost them anything i just dont get it
Submitted by Anonymous (guest) on Tue, 09/15/2009 - 10:22.
Trash to treasure? Pangea Organics, a natural skin care line turns their trash to treasure. The cartons are made of 100 percent renewable, recyclable, or biodegradable materials with vegetable-based inks. The cartons are embedded with seeds, like many other Pangea packaging, and can be planted after use. Now thats pretty cool- not only are you getting an organic successful skin product, but you are also given a starter kit to create your own little garden (or contribute to your existing one) check out their facebook fan page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pangea-Organics/32395802556?ref=ts P.S. For every fan Pangea has on its fan page at the end of 2009, they will be planting a tree and maintaining it for 3 years in the Mata Atlantica, the most biodiverse area of the Brazilian rain forest..when they reach there goal of 30k trees they will be flying two down to Brazil to learn of the importance of biodiversity. So Cool!
Submitted by Anonymous (guest) on Sun, 06/14/2009 - 18:57.
thanks for showing my paper boxes recycled from old new yorker magazines...you can see more of my recycling at www.metalthread.com
Submitted by denise carbonell (guest) on Fri, 05/22/2009 - 18:47.
i love this!! please give us more of these great examples in the future. if only we'd stop seeing garbage as something to be landfilled for lifetimes... thanks for finding all these beautiful and creative ideas. keep up the great green work!
Submitted by vanessa (guest) on Wed, 05/20/2009 - 11:11.

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