Tag Archives: recycle

How to Properly Discard an Old Smartphone Before Upgrading

Unsurprisingly, the unveiling of the new iPhone 6s and 6s Plus has already hit record preorder numbers, foreshadowing probable record-breaking sales. With carriers like T-Mobile offering flexible, highly appealing service plans including free music streaming, rollover data packages and in-flight texting at no cost, an accommodating service plan makes it even harder to not want to upgrade to a new ...

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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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Turn Your Old Cellphone Into a Wallet

Clamshell cellphones are well on their way out, quickly being replaced by flat touchscreens. In fact, we haven’t even posted about a clamshell style device since 2008. I’ve gathered quite an arsenal of broken cellphones over the years, whether they were dropped in the toilet or just plain overused, a lot of clamshell models had relatively short lifespans, at least ...

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Make Your Own Rubik’s Cube Using Your Old Keyboard

Sure, you might be saying to yourself, what’s the use of destroying a perfectly good Rubik’s cube just so you can rebuild it using old keyboard keys? And I say to you… are you INSANE? If you want to get into the technicalities of things, what’s the point of doing anything for the sake of nothing? There doesn’t have to ...

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The Coolest Ink Cartridge Chandeliers Ever

Need I say more? In this case I indeed do need to say more. Have you ever considered the piles of piles of ink cartridges rotting at our nation’s landfills. Not sure what the half-life is on those things, but something tells me there’s a whole lot more use you can get out of them. And of course, as usual, ...

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Street Light Floor Lamp

Everyday, thousands of street lights are orphaned, sent to the junk yard to rot, with no one to maintain their slowly rusting bodies, their LED and solar brethren slowly taking their place. Please, help save these helpless street lights and adopt one for your own personal use. These Street Light Floor Lamps use re-appropriated street lights to create a unique ...

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Xbox Controller Chair Made Out of Cardboard

Like a lot of geeks out there I have a constant stream of crap being shipped to me from various internet companies. But I’m getting sick of just chucking all of the cardboard away. There has to be something productive we can create using all of our excess boxes. And then I came across this and I had a “Eureka!” ...

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What To Do With A Broken Mouse? DIY Toothbrush Holder

Have a few dead computer mouses laying around? They’re probably sitting in the same spot you keep the skeletons in your closet. You might be having some trouble parting with them. And that’s fine, totally normal. People become attached to inanimate objects all the time. So, if you want to actually do something USEFUL with those dead mice, you might ...

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