Some green-minded students in France managed to transform discarded junk into recumbent-style exercise bikes that generated enough electricity to power an entire film festival. The wooden bikes were constructed of waste debris taken from trash bins and were then retrofitted with small generators to produce 100% clean pedal power. Read More…
Ever wonder where old airplanes go when they retire?…It’s not to a retirement community in Florida. Most actually end up in so-called “aircraft boneyards” located primarily in the deserts of the Southwestern United States. These boneyards are basically junkyards for aircraft of all types. While some may view these broken, rundown birds as piles of scrap metal, others see an opportunity to create some of the coolest looking homes on the planet. Read More…
Photo Source: Gary Jackson
These homes are built from scrap metal, reclaimed lumber, soda cans and bottles, plastic waste, shipping containers and plain-old trash. Living in a “dump” has never been so sweet! Read More…
Some people see garbage as an opportunity. It takes quite a bit of imagination and ingenuity to transform household junk into innovative tech gadgets and doohickeys. Here are some of the coolest examples of how you can repurpose trash with a twist of tech. Read More…
Source: Ronnie Keshishian, via: Waste and Recycling News
It’s safe to say that Ken Butler isn’t your average artist and musician. Sure, he can play a wide range of stringed and percussion instruments like any seasoned musician out there can do, but it’s the actual instruments he plays that set him apart. He builds fully-functioning musical instruments out of stuff he finds in the dumpster! Legendary guitarist Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin may be more famous for playing his axe on stage, but Ken Butler can boast that he literally plays an axe! Read More…
Image source: Newsline Scotland, via: Huffington Post
The Microbial Kitchen by Philips
There are food processors…and then there are food pulverizers! A Nevada-based company called Bokashicycle recently introduced its 3 HP Electric High Throughput Food Waste Pulverizer. This thing takes food scraps and shreds, pulverizes and tears them into smaller pieces ideal for composting. It’s an innovative way to reduce the amount of food waste entering landfills. Read More…
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