Recycling doesn’t have to be limited to helping the environment: it can also be a challenge and opportunity to ingenious designers who work with materials most people would consider waste to create amazing things. Some of the following designs serve multiple purposes: illustrating the material possibilities of what most would consider trash while also maximizing the aesthetic potential of what would otherwise be considered waste objects. Clothes become rugs, airline trolleys become furniture, cardboard becomes bridges and sewage turns into building blocks!
The Volksware designers have provided an interesting alternative way of recycling clothes that may not even bit fit for the Salvation Army. By stitching them and rolling them they have created a simple carpet system that can be cut to length and fit to a space. Something to think about the next time someone tells you to pick your clothes up off the floor!
Ever wonder what happens to those oddly shaped airplane trolleys when the airlines are done using them? Well, so did Bordbar before they began appropriating and adding splashes of design to them and reselling them to the public as useful (if odd) multipurpose mobile furniture. These are highly customizable have have a surprising range of possible functions once they are recycled into use.
There are few things being produced as rapidly, regularly and in such volume as newspapers. Many of these are, of course, recycled by traditional means, but what if they could serve another purpose that didn’t require the some amount of reprocessing? Sumer Erek has been working on one such alternative: reusing newspaper as interior decoration and insulation in a house.
The Remarkable product design team has created a series of colorful and useful versions of traditional products made out of unusual recycled materials. Their approach is quite simple yet compelling: they brand individual products with information about their origins. This makes for conversation pieces but also raises awareness about the origins and potential of composite recycled materials.
Architect Shigeru Ban is well known for a number of high-profile architectural designs but perhaps less so for his artistic and ecological side projects such as the cardboard bridge pictured above. This bridge is composed over over 250 recycled cardboard tubes with recycled paper and plastic comprising the stairs. Amazingly, this recycled bridge can hold up to 20 people at once!
The BituBlock may interesting and almost artistic … until you realize it is made from post-consumer recycled products including ash, glass and, yes, sewage. Still, it doesn’t smell and ultimately it is an incredibly strong and durable building block that rivals other materials such as concrete that would be used in similar situations - and does so using almost entirely reused and recycled materials.
The Remida Center appropriates scrap materials from all kinds of local businesses in order to gain raw materials ranging from wood and metal to plexiglass and plastic that students can use in art projects. The idea is both to facilitate art but also to raise awareness about the origins of materials, essentially recycling otherwise unused materials and putting them toward the production of art.
There are all kinds of approaches to garbage gardening that appropriate trash items and reuse them for decorative or practical purposes in gardens. The example shown above is just one of many including colorful mosaics from broken dishes and assorted other ideas. Not extreme enough? Try guerilla gardening instead!
Italian designer Marcella Foschi has developed a quite clever way to recycle cassette tapes: a product material that exists in abundance but is associated with a dying (or dead) technology. Her coin purses are at least cute (if not collectible) and appropriate a material we all know, love and have stopped using.
Marcella Foschi isn’t the only one with ideas on how to reuse audio tapes. Some clever designers have taken it to the next level and begun to weave sonic cloth from the actual tape within the cassettes.
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日常用品回收之创意十法
回收不只对保护环境有重大意义：对那些有创意的设计师来说，利用废物创造出令人惊异的东西是一种挑战，也是一次机遇。下面介绍的设计中有不少都是多功能的：它们不仅告诉人们那些大多被认为是垃圾的东西存在多大的可能性，也最大程度发挥了那些废品的审美潜力。破布料变成了地毯，航空行李车变成了家具，纸板还能造桥，下水道里的污物居然变成了砖块！
Volksware 的设计师们为回收破布提供了有趣的方案，甚至还对救世军有点帮助。通过缝补和卷铺，他们将破布制成了简易地毯系统，你可以根据空间大小随意裁剪下一块来使用。想象一下，以后有人会叫你把你的衣服从地上捡起来哦！
你想过那些外形奇怪航空行李车被航空公司“抛弃”之后还能怎么办吗？
Bordbar想办法在这些废品里注入灵感，然后向公众再次出售（单只一卖）这些用途广泛的多功能移动家具。只要它们被回收利用了，你会发现它们有广泛到令人惊奇的作用。
大概很少有物品像报纸那样，产出如此迅速，平凡，量又那么大。大多数报纸当然是按照传统方法被回收了，但如果可以用一种不需要复杂处理过程的方法去回收它们呢？
Sumer Erek 就想出了这样一个解决方法：把报纸回收去做房子里的室内装饰品和绝缘壁。
Remarkable 产品设计小组创造了一系列彩色且有用的传统用品，而这些大多是由回收来的材料制成的。这个方法虽然简单却很夺人眼球：他们给产品个件标上了各自的来源信息。产品上既有这样一种风俗画，同时也提醒人们关注物品的来源，意识到回收材料的潜力。
建筑师
Shigeru Ban可能以他一系列鲜明的建筑设计著称，而较少有人知道他在艺术和环保上的项目像是上图所示的纸板桥。这座桥是由250多根回收纸板管制成的，桥上的阶梯则由回收纸和塑料组成。让人吃惊的是，这座回收物品构成的桥可以同时承受20个人的重量！
BituBlock 很有趣也充满艺术感。。。当你发现这块砖是由废品包括尘土，玻璃，对，还有下水道里的污物制成的。然而，它却没有臭味，而且它还强韧得不可思议，这种耐用的建筑砖块可以和混凝土砖块媲美，使用方法也大同小异--而且它是完全利用了废旧回收品。
Remida 中心喜欢从当地工厂里收集各种材料，为了能得到像木头，金属，树脂玻璃和塑料等原料，给学生用于艺术项目的制作。这种想法既推动了艺术事业，同时也提醒人们关注材料的来源，尤其是回收这些不使用的材料，把它们投入艺术生产。
意大利设计师
Marcella Foschi 发明了一种聪明的方法回收盒式录音带：这是一种曾被广泛使用的科技，现在正逐渐走向消亡（或已经灭迹了）。她所设计的零钱袋至少很可爱（不知道够不够装零钱），而且充分利用了这个我们大家都知道的，喜欢过的，却已经不再使用的东西。
Marcella Foschi不是唯一想出如何再利用录音磁带的人。许多聪明的设计师已经将其发展到了下一阶段，他们准备将带盒的录音带编织成
“声波布料”。