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Plastic Paradise, Island made of Plastic Waste

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With the pressure of increasing intense on our environment, lots of environment friendly projects, architectures and designs have been created. And I can foresee more and more those sustainable designs will be come up and come true. Today, we will feature another incredible proposal “Plastic paradise – CGI images show how a team of Dutch scientists plan to take 44 million kilos of plastic waste currently bobbing around in the Pacific Ocean and transform it into Recycled Island“.

Plastic Paradise, Island made of Plastic Waste

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Natural Style Package Design

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Green” is advocated these days. Hence, some manufactures try to use some natural, traditional package materials instead of widely used synthetic material.

In this post, I am going to present you with some package design made of natural material, such as bamboo, paper, wooden, Lotus Leaf, straw. Those material are not only eco-conscious but also give us a fresh feeling. For the rest of package designs presented here are trying to imitate nature, like using some flower, fruit elements to give us a sense of closing nature.

Nature Material Package

Natural style package design

Straw Package 1

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Carpet Art – creative and beautiful

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It is said “Used carpet and rugs generate around 2.6 million tons of waste per year”. But what an old carpet , worn rugs or outdated carpet samples can do? Only end up in waste bin? Believe me, after reading the post, you will find you can make something useful and beautiful with upcycled materials.

1. Carpet Sqr’d Chair

Can one or two recycled carpet tiles change the course of a smilingly endless waste stream?
Design objects that maximize the reuse and recycling of discarded resources are our goal. Creating demand for products with large amounts of recycled content will help stem the flow.

Sixty carpet tiles will be used for this Club Chair.

carpet art - creative and beautiful

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Recycled Art

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Today is “Earth Day”, so we go on some “Green Topic” – Recycled Art.

When I talk about recycled art, I am not going that extreme like artist Nick Demarco from California College, to put a sofa filled with rubbish at home.

recycled art

I still hope the recycled items have decent looking and without weird smell.

Flower Branch made of Toilet rolls [link]

Toilet rolls sprouting spreading branches are hung to create a “forest” hanging on the wall or hanging down from the ceiling. There is a moment when the hanging cut-out-parts start holding their branches and leaves on their own strength.

recycled art

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