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One recycling bin is hardly enough to hold the refuse of a single distinguished alcoholic. The problem is that sometimes your local recycling service limits your recyclable volume to one measly container. That leaves plenty of empty beer cans ready to be transformed.

Not an alcoholic himself, Paul Villinski had to resort to picking beer cans off of the street to create his Butterfly Beer Can wall art. The butterfly art is attached to the wall with suspension wire, giving the can crafts a three dimensional pop.

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Nixon is planning to release a watch made from recycled skateboard decks. Part of Nixon’s Rotolog collection, the RePly watch features a colorful wristband and a stylish analog display. Skateboard enthusiasts are bound to go nuts for this thing even though it’s not waterproof and the colored stripes look pretty ridiculous. Nixon hasn’t announced when the watch will actually go on sale.

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Eco-friendly Uruguayan leathermaker Begoodesigns has found a use for old car seats. They’re making swank laptop cases using recycled auto upholstery. Begood’s bags don’t just protect the environment, they also guard your precious computer. Inside the bags, there’s a soft lining made from padded car seat fabric.

With it’s classic leather luggage styling, this recycled laptop bag is a major step up from those DIY velcro and duct tape laptop bags. Begoodesign’s car seat leather computer case sells for $250 on their web site. Buy one of these and you might be able to feel a little bit better about driving a big ol’ gas-guzzling SUV. If you’re looking for even more recycled leather gear Begoodesigns also makes sandals and necklaces.

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Technically, our recyclables are supposed to be divided into metal, paper, plastic, and others. Usually they just wind up in a vaguely spaced pile which seems to be separated by a coincidence.

The Barcode Trashcan allows you to simply scan your soon-to-be recycled items, at which point a built-in computer figures out what material that barcode corresponds to, and ejaculates the correct lid. Hell, I might even offer to take out the recycling if it’s ever this fun. (more…)

All it takes to make a sick Sci-Fi adventure is some recycling prowess. We could so see these masks used in a motion picture. And to think they were made using random electronic shit lying around someone’s house.

Imagine a movie like this: The world is on the brink of collapse after a group of amateur garage robotic builders produce an indestructible gang of robotic monsters to control the world. I picture their faces looking something like these. (more…)

Now this is friggen cool. This Admit One Movie Ticket Bowl is made from a reel real roll of movie tickets. It might not sound like much, but just check out those pictures! How much more unique could you get? Great for any movie buff.
Conveniently, not only is it damn cool looking, but is also a prefect example of recycling old and used material. Even though, of course the rolls are full and complete, so they weren’t actually used. And who would eat off of used tickets anyway? A show of hands, please. Available now for prices ranging between $60-$100, but sadly, out of stock. — Andrew Dobrow

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Mmm, more floppy drive recycling goodness. This time we got a real treat for all of you bag nuts. This Floppy Disk Bag is a totally DIY project which you can use if you have boxes of flops laying around your office or house. If you think this is geeky, think again. Well, no we admit, it is geeky, but the original plan was to create plate mail armor out of the dumpster saved disks. Now THAT’S geeky!

So what supplies are you going to need to make your own? All you’ll need is a drill bit plier and some chain links. Oh, and some elementary math knowledge. Looks awesome. (more…)