Recycling

Luggage Made From Recycled Airplane Seats Might Just Be Indestructible

When you think of the daily abuse that airplane seats have to endure, it’s a minor miracle they aren’t torn to shreds after just a week of air travel. The fabrics used for the upholstery must be just short of indestructible, so it makes sense to eventually recycle those materials into bags and packs that…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jul 11

Watch Old Dollar Bills Get Turned into Dirt

When the Fed constantly replaces old, tattered dollar bills with new, crispy cash, millions of notes get pulled out of circulation while new dollar bills get put in circulation. So what happens to all that old money? It gets shredded. But then what? Until recently, those shredded notes just went into landfills, but now the…

Sploid Casey Chan Jun 21

Watch a Photocopier Somehow Get Transformed Into a Trumpet

There’s about five pounds of salvageable copper inside your typical photocopier (mostly in the power supply and the motor’s copper windings). Copper, that can be mixed with zinc to create brass. Brass, that can be shaped out to make a trumpet. It’s the circle of life! Check out the improbable journey that is a photocopier…

Sploid Casey Chan Jun 10

These Sick Sneakers Are Made From Ocean Garbage

Companies like New Balance have been using recycled plastic from water bottles to make shoes for years now. But Adidas is taking that idea one step further. Teaming up with Parley for the Oceans, its new Adidas x Parley sneakers are also made from plastics recovered from the ocean. The amount of garbage, particularly plastics,…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jun 7

The Crazy Ways We’ll Soon Mine Old Gadgets for Treasure

Last month, the internet flew into a frenzy over news that Apple recovered $40 million worth of gold from old gadgets last year. That story turned out to be wildly oversold. But our eagerness to celebrate a tech company’s recycling victory speaks to a disturbing truth. We’re terrible at recycling rare and important metals from…

Tech News Maddie Stone May 3

Apple’s Recycling Program Netted $40 Million in Gold Last Year

Over the last year, Apple processed 90 million pounds of electronics that were unwanted or broken. It turns out they were nearly worth their weight in gold—a substance which is used heavily in electronics for its conductivity and resistance to corrosion. As stated in Apple’s environmental report, about two thirds of that 90 million pound…

Tech News Avery Ellis Apr 16

Simple Tool Turns Plastic Bottles Into Nearly Indestructible Plastic Rope

Big Rope has a stranglehold on the ‘tying things down’ industry, and if you’re tired of paying through the nose for a few feet of twine, you’ll want to consider backing the Kickstarter campaign for this simple tool that can turn empty plastic bottles into super strong plastic rope. The aptly-named Plastic Bottle Cutter works…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Mar 3

Turn a Broken 1986 Macintosh Plus Into an Amusing Trash Can

Here’s a great way to enrage the Apple fans in your life whom put all of the company’s creations on a pedestal. Imgur user hahabird converted the shell from a classic 1986 Macintosh Plus into a garbage can, complete with a spring-loaded screen flap. Don’t start flipping out because someone destroyed a perfectly good retro…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Feb 5

How to Recycle Your Christmas Tree

Real Christmas trees are beautiful. They smell good. They look classy as hell. They are not made of plastic and imported from China like most of the fake trees you can buy. They are not fake, which means they are easily assumed to possess that most coveted trait of all, authenticity. But they have a…

Tech News Kate Knibbs Jan 1

This Ingenious Printer Recycles Scrap Paper Into New Paper Right in Your Office

This is PaperLab: Epson says it’s the world’s first recycling system to take waste paper and instantly transform it into new paper—onsite, in your office. The Japanese company claims that the device can churn those reams of shredded paper in your cubicle’s overflowing recycle bin into brand new, crisp, white sheets, without using water. This…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin Dec 2

This machine that crushes soda cans is so hypnotic

I’m totally getting hypnotized watching this machine spin around and around as it crushes aluminum can after aluminum can. The colors of the soda, the constant spin of the wheel, the methodical movement of the arm, it all makes for such a satisfying video to watch. I think people would absolutely recycle more if they…

Sploid Casey Chan Nov 30

Are We Recycling Too Much of Our Trash?

A recent credible study suggests the amount of waste Americans dispose in landfills each year is over twice what the EPA had been estimating. Although this news may not surprise the country’s disposal facilities (who already knew the quantity of waste they take in), the study may strike an old nerve for many Americans –…

Tech News Thomas Kinnaman Oct 23

Ikea Is Stuffing New Cushions With Old Shredded Catalogs

Whether you embrace it with open arms or toss it in the trash as soon as it arrives, the Ikea catalog is one of the most widely distributed publications on earth. But to help reduce the environmental impact of all that paper, the company is now recycling old copies into cushion stuffing. If you happen…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Sep 1

Your Next Yoga Mat Might Be Made From Algae

It’s the last thing you want to find floating on your backyard pool, but a Mississippi-based company called Bloom has developed a way to turn algae, that green slimy goo that makes it unpleasant to swim in a lake, into eco-friendly foam for use in yoga mats, sandals, or luggage. The company has developed a…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Aug 26

A Music Festival Is Using People’s Piss to Brew More Beer

If you like drinking piss, you’re going to love the Roskilde music festival. The Danish celebration of rock and rollrecently launched a programthat recycles festival-goers’ urine in order to make beer. It’s not as gross as it sounds. While it’s natural to assume that turning piss into beer would involve converting the wastewater into clean…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Jul 7

These Sneakers Are Made Entirely From Ocean Waste

Our oceans are full of plastic. Forunately scientists are mapping where it lies, which means we can begin scooping it up—and perhaps even start to use it to create new products, like these sneakers. A collaboration between Addidas and Parley for the Oceans, these running shoes are a design concept made using just plastics found…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Jul 3

Researchers Devise a Simple Method For Recycling Rare Earth Magnets

You’ve probably heard a bit about rare Earth elements. They’ve got unpronounceable names like ytterbium and praseodymium, and they’re found in nearly ever piece of tech you own. Despite their value, we’re do a piss poor job recycling them. But chemists are now hoping to change that. Clockwise from top center: Rare Earth metals praseodymium,…

Tech News Maddie Stone Jun 21

Mystery Woman Casually Recycled a $200,000 Vintage Apple-1 Computer

One woman’s trash is literally everyone else’s super-expensive, rare $200,000 piece of computer history. Most of the time, recycled electronics are too crappy to sell on Craigslist. But one California e-recycling center recently received one of the most coveted gadgets ever: A genuine Apple-1 computer. An unidentified woman dropped off the desktop computer, one of…

Tech News Kate Knibbs May 31

Hardcore Recycling: Using Old MRI Magnets in a Physics Lab

When magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners reach the end of their lifetime, hospitals have to deal with a large piece of electronic waste, stuffed with potentially dangerous parts. Unless a physics lab can make use of them. In the photo above you can see an old MRI magnet, one of the most valuable part of…

Tech News Attila Nagy May 22

How Can I Get This Horse-Powered Garbage Truck To My Neighborhood?

I had just decided that the sanitation trucks which come rumbling down my street at dawn—spewing diesel, making my house shudder, flinging the occasional recycling bin across the street with their robot arms—are a necessary nuisance for a city dweller. Until I saw this trash collection service that uses horse-drawn wagons. Patrick Palmer’s two-horse team…

Biology Alissa Walker May 13

Luggage Made From Recycled Airplane Seats Might Just Be Indestructible

Watch Old Dollar Bills Get Turned into Dirt

Watch a Photocopier Somehow Get Transformed Into a Trumpet

These Sick Sneakers Are Made From Ocean Garbage

The Crazy Ways We’ll Soon Mine Old Gadgets for Treasure

Apple’s Recycling Program Netted $40 Million in Gold Last Year

Simple Tool Turns Plastic Bottles Into Nearly Indestructible Plastic Rope

Turn a Broken 1986 Macintosh Plus Into an Amusing Trash Can

How to Recycle Your Christmas Tree

This Ingenious Printer Recycles Scrap Paper Into New Paper Right in Your Office

This machine that crushes soda cans is so hypnotic

Are We Recycling Too Much of Our Trash?

Ikea Is Stuffing New Cushions With Old Shredded Catalogs

Your Next Yoga Mat Might Be Made From Algae

A Music Festival Is Using People’s Piss to Brew More Beer

These Sneakers Are Made Entirely From Ocean Waste

Researchers Devise a Simple Method For Recycling Rare Earth Magnets

Mystery Woman Casually Recycled a $200,000 Vintage Apple-1 Computer

Hardcore Recycling: Using Old MRI Magnets in a Physics Lab

How Can I Get This Horse-Powered Garbage Truck To My Neighborhood?

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