After the festive season, the question arises about what to do with the old cards. This year instead of throwing out your old cards, consider donating them to charitable groups, or reuse them yourself.
Upcycling is the concept of taking something of little value (such as an empty pill bottle) and increasing its value exponentially through artistic expression (see the pill bottle sculpture below). Jean Shin is one of the extraordinarily talented artists who’s view of what is trash and what is treasure takes her on an artistic journey that is beautiful to follow.
Is it okay to pass on that ill-fitting sweater or bright orange tie? Yes, if the circumstances are right and you think carefully.
This is the sixth article in my “Artistic Recycling” series, which highlights creative ways to reuse what most people would throw away and transform it into objects of great value. This article features paper dresses of Susan Stockwell.
About 23% of plastic water bottles are recycled. This leaves an astounding 38 billion water bottles in landfills. It takes over 1.5 million barrels of oil to manufacture a year’s supply of bottled water. That’s enough to fuel 100,00 cars for a year. The popularity of recycling, reducing, and reusing has increased in recent years. These methods can help to reduce the amount of wasted oil and landfill space.
This article is the second in a series of Artistic Recycling articles. These articles highlight ways that trash can be turned into treasure. This piece involves the reinvention of cardboard egg cartons into canvases which can be viewed from a never ending series of angles and view points. The cups of the egg cartons obliterate some of the perceptive angles of the viewer.
There’s a website called Original T-Bag Designs that sells art made of used tea bags. Talk about reuse — they make some beautiful items from what most of us would just throw away. And these designs are helping to lift some artisans out of poverty!
Heres Some Instructions of How To make A Junk Monster its easy instructions.
If your child has accumulated a collection of little toys he no longer plays with, here’s how to put them to good use.
Designer looks, user interface, funky new buttons, shiny screen, sound quality, bluetooth connection, camera, web and e-mail functions – there are numerous factors to consider when buying a mobile phone. There are also hundreds of different phones to choose from, and soon you might be able to add environmentally friendly phones to the list. Considering that, the world is consuming more and more electronic products every year, the ‘green’ mobile phone must be the best mobile phone.
