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10 Things You Never Knew Could Be Recycled

Recycling

Bottles, cans, newspapers – they are obvious recyclables that most people separate out into a blue bin. Recycling is one small thing we do for mankind on a daily basis, but there’s a good chance you aren’t recycling all you can. If you want to up your recycling game look beyond the standard items and start separating out these lesser-known ...

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Recycled Guitar String Bracelets

If you rock hard enough, eventually your guitar strings are going to break. And if they don't, you're doing something wrong. Typically you'd just chuck the old string in the garbage, grab a new pack and replace the string. Wear Your Music has figured out a way to creatively recycle the strings as bracelets.

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3D Samus Sculpture Made Using Recycled Video Games

Perhaps the hottest heavily-armored digital chica in gaming history, Metroid’s Samus Aran has become known as a kick-ass pioneering female who needs the help of no man. The moment that Samus was revealed as a woman at the end of Metroid changed my life. And I’m clearly not the only one who was inspired by Samus’s robotically-coiffed tactics. Using 179 ...

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Shed Built Using 7,000 Recycled Phone Books

Everything that you can find in a phone book can be found on the Internet. That and much, much more. Yet, every year, without fail, phone books are delivered to most people in the United States. Thousands upon thousands of phone books are thrown out every year as the new books arrive in the mail. Alex from Shedworking decided to ...

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Belt Buckle Made Using Recycled NES Controller

I’ve never wanted to touch a man’s belt this bad. Actually, I don’t think I’ve ever wanted to touch a man’s anything… ever. But whenever I see a NES controller there’s something instinctual about my brain that makes my hand instantly reach out and tap the buttons, even if there’s no console in sight. Seriously dude, get away from me ...

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Game Boy Advance Cartridge Recycled Into a 4GB USB Flash Drive

Ahh, recycling. The ambitious man’s answer to hoarding. It might be hard for you to throw anything anyway, and that’s fine, as long as you can find some sort of meaningful use. Odds are that you’re never going to play your Game Boy Advance more than once or twice a decade for the rest of your life, so it’s time ...

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Necktie Made Out of Recycled Cassette Tapes

All of those cassette tapes being thrown into our trash dumps are really starting to add up. Piles and piles of Journey tapes lie waste, just waiting for a superhero to come and recycle them into a constructive use. If you don’t have the patience to create an artist’s likeness with the innards of a cassette, maybe these Recycled Cassette ...

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Turntable Clock Made Using Actual Recycled Turntable

Let’s keep the scratchin’ going to the early morn. Yeahhhh, boooooy. Made using an old, retired Fischer turntable and a rockin’ Doobie Brothers vinyl album, the Turntable Clock WAS available on Etsy, but has since sold out. I’m guessing there was only one available in the first place, but who knows, more might pop up if you’re lucky, Link [via]

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Record Table Made of Recycled Classic Rock Vinyl Records

There have been countless methods of recycling your old, abandoned, bong water-stained vinyl, but none that have integrated the actual casing and cover art as well. If you have such epic records as Led Zeppelin‘s IV, there is no reason NOT to show them off some how. BUGHOUSE designed this unique record table, which would fit spectacularly into your den ...

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