recycling – Product by Process

recycling plastic the right way : TED talk by Mike Biddle

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Less than 10% of plastic trash is recycled — compared to almost 90% of metals — because of the massively complicated problem of finding and sorting the different kinds. Frustrated by this waste, Mike Biddle has developed a cheap and incredibly energy efficient plant that can, and does, recycle any kind of plastic. Read Mike’s responses to questions about this talk. Discarded plastic, too often, ends up buried or burned, not recycled (it’s just too complicated). But Mike Biddle has found a way to close the loop.

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Spruce Home Upholstery

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Spruce Home have made a business not only upholstering vintage chairs, couches, and headboards, they also go so far as to make their own pillows and lampshades featuring the same vintage and designer textiles that they use for their furniture. Additionally they sling vintage wares such as lamps and tables to go hand in hand with the things that they make and re-envision. Part of their philosophy is that anyone can have the updated look to suit their home, without having to buy all brand new things — although everything…

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Cardboard bicycle

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Film-maker & producer: Giora Kariv. gigicom77@gmail.com Photography: Uri Ackerman For more information and content about this project: erb.co.il/en/aboutus.asp?p=yxdn-vrjd-ufzg-ukyv

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Hemp walls

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Push Design made news with a beautiful Hemp House in Asheville, North Carolina. It received significant media attention — notwithstanding a multitude of jokes conflating industrial hemp and marijuana. Now, hemp is being used for more projects, as shown in the above video from CBS Minnesota. Due to strict regulations, hemp is imported and mixed with water and lime to create a light, insulating, concrete-like mass for walls

defy bags from recycled goods.

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Old Materials are the starting points for Chris Tag, the man behind Defy bags. From the manufacturer: “Defy has been proudly manufacturing durable goods since 2008, with each and every hand-crafted product inspected by me. All goods are crafted to be: simple, clean-lined, sturdy and manufactured to a level that would make my grandfather proud. We art direct each minute detail to ensure every bag feels truly one of a kind. And oh by the way, we mostly use vintage or reclaimed durable materials to do so. Well, that and…

recycling electric appliance by shredding them.

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The highly rugged and hard-wearing XR series has been specifically developed for the shredding of municipal solid waste (MSW), bulky waste and commercial solid waste, and is mainly used for producing coarse and medium fractions. For more information visit: http://www.untha.com

Bagasse: energy and paper

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Discover Bagasse: Sugar Cane Bagasse is an agricultural waste made from 100% recycled materials. From energy to paper . In addition to being treeless, Sugar Cane Bagasse products are 100% biodegradable and compostable with renewable cycles of 12 months making them an ideal choice for sustainability. Unlike comparable paper products where it takes up to 30 years for renewal cycles of Tree Made paper with the h arvesting of over 900 million trees annually in the USA alone.

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