When life gives you lemons, make a really expensive coffee table that leaves the bitter taste of disappointment and regret in your mouth. Also works with your totaled Toyota Camry.
(Charly Molinelli via Recylart)
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Let’s face it, for a lot of people owning a hybrid car or buying recycled products is as much about appearances as it is about saving the environment. If you are the type who likes to feel smug about your environmental efforts, the following products will take you far above and way beyond what everyone else in the neighborhood is doing.
If you have some old computers lying around, consider recycling that old junk into furniture like this awesome circuit board table.
The design is fairly simple: a smaller table on the inside holds the boards, and a larger glass table functions as the display shell. Throw in a few LED lights and you’ve got yourself one hell of a conversation piece.
Wood reclaimed from the Northland College gym in Ashland Wisconsin has been turned into coffee tables, mirrors, frames, shelves and wall hooks. For the last 50 years, supple young college students have been sweating on this very floor—and now you are putting your coffee on it.
It’s either gross or a turn-on, depending on how messed up you are.
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Want to recycle your batteries but you’re not sure how? Well, this battery-shaped recycling tin doesn’t answer that question, but it does something almost as good—it puts that problem off until later. In the meantime, your drawers will stay just a little bit tidier. According to the product page, the tin comes in two parts to accommodate batteries large and small—but you could use it to store just about anything that will fit.
Playtime becomes a lesson in environmental responsibility thanks to this recycling truck toy made from discarded milk jugs. Now kids can supplement the garbage truck with recycling and wake up the army man neighborhood at 7 am on a Friday morning to the sound of large trucks and clattering bottles.
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This Starbucks-esque coffee cup is intended to be used as a garbage can (with a reminder about recycling), but for real coffee addicts it could double as a super-sized venti fix. Additional images are available after the break.
