Recycled Wall Art

Recycled Wall Art

Creating your home décor design doesn’t have to be an expensive undertaking. Home accessories and décor can still look good while costing you very little on materials-as long as you do the work yourself. Gather up your tools, your DIY spirit and this guide to cost saving home décor design and you’ll be on your way to acquiring the most bang for your décor dollar.

Use It Don’t Lose It

One of the biggest mistakes that homeowners tend to do when they ar changing their décor design is to throw out the old Read the rest of this entry »

Recycled Trash Art

Recycled Trash Art

Junk art and trash art are interchangeable terms. This is a sub-genre of found art, where a piece of art is created from pieces that have antecedently been discarded as trash or junk. There ar many national organizations that offer junk art competitions as a way of making the world more aware of the things they discard, that will sit in a landfill. Not only is junk art and trash art a way of creating awareness, but also helps those who are going ‘green’ to erase some of their carbon footmark by reusing objects.

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Recycled Tin Art

Recycled Tin Art

As I look around my city garden I am transported to another(a) world. It is my urban oasis . Small but luscious. Very green. And scattered all around are my favorite pieces of metal garden art.

The houses in my neighbourhood ar about 80 years old, but astatine least one of the maples that shade my backyard is older than that. One magnificent maple a few houses east, one two houses west, both encroaching on my yard and my sun. In addition to these gifts of nature, we have planted many shrubs and cedars ourselves. Read the rest of this entry »

Recycled Sculptures

Recycled Sculptures

Leo Sewell is a recycled art expert, who uses self created assemblage techniques in his art. The sculptures Leo Sewell creates are made from rescued plastic, wood and metal pieces helium collects from museums, corporations and individuals from around the world.

Sewell’s piece Duck is made from recycled art pieces that are put into place using bolts and screws, as well as nails. Each piece of this sculpture was chosen based on the shapes and colors, also textures and patina specifically for this piece. Duck contains earrings, corn on the cob holders, tags from many articles Read the rest of this entry »

Recycled Products

Recycled Products

Recycling the waste from your home and business, such as paper, plastic, and aluminum, is an important part of protecting our environment and underdeveloped a sustainable lifestyle. However, recycling is only one part of the process.

In order for recycling to reach its full potential in preserving the environment, it needs to be financially viable for manufacturers. Consumers can support recycling at the grassroots level by buying and requesting products made from recycled materials. An increased demand for recycled goods would encourage more manufacturers to produce these items.

There are a number of Read the rest of this entry »

Recycled Plastic Bags

Recycled Plastic Bags

Recycling plastic bags is probably one of the easiest ways we can help our environment stay clean. Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle is the contemporary catch phrase used to encourage more people to think about the environment and how they use everyday items. Perhaps the other word belonging to this group is re-educate, as the message may be a little slow to impact on people. Most people would quote the Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle if you asked them how we can deal with excess plastics and landfill usage in our society. You may be a little more hard-pressed to get Read the rest of this entry »

Recycled Plastic Art

Recycled Plastic Art

You can make your outdoor living area more unique by adding or designing and making outdoor art. You can also often achieve this using objects already existent in the house or shed. When you consider the items suitable for recycling, you power find these able to be turned into art objects that could be used for garden art. Bear in mind fascinating artistic garden objects like a planter made from an old mailbox, satellite dish turned into a water plant pond, or trellis that used to be television antennae.

Try picture a garden mural on a Read the rest of this entry »

Recycled Packaging

Recycled Packaging

Your company may well receive dozens if not hundreds of parcels each month, either items for resale, or items that will be used in manufacture your own goods. In either case the amount of packaging that these items come with can amount to several tons, or skip loads of rubbish each month.

If you do not reprocess any of this seemingly waste packaging material you will pay a lot to have the waste taken away. So have you thought about putting in place a proper recycling insurance and looking at how you can re-use packaging as Read the rest of this entry »

Recycled Metal Art

Recycled Metal Art

In my sources of inspiration post I touched on the subject of found object art. Or a more modern description is recycled metal art. Aside from the nearly infinite originative possibilities, there are benefits to the environment as well. The most obvious is saving metal from filling landfills.

One such artist posted a blog about it. The artist is Lynn Hasselberger. Might I say she really does good work with washers and motorcycle chains. Reading her bio about how she was divine by her dumpster diving mom and her workaholic father was interesting to say the Read the rest of this entry »

Recycled Materials

Recycled Materials

Even though many people are unaware of it, today there are many carpets made from recycled materials. One of these kinds of carpeting is PET carpet. When referring to PET carpet, the P stands for poly, E is for ethylene, and T is for terephthalate, which in plain English, means a kind of material that is similar to plastic which many companies use for other purposes, like water bottles, and dissimilar materials made from thin clear plastic. PET actually comes in a wide variety of colors. PET rug sounds strange to many people, but is actually made often with Read the rest of this entry »