Green news weekly – Recycled 747 Jets, Recycled Homes and Recycled Art is Modern Upcycling
Today we have a special edition of green news weekly focusing on some pretty spectacular recycling and upcycling endeavours. This week features: truly awesome homes made from recycled shipping containers; 10 animal sculptures upcycled from various recycled materials; 10 amazing recycled cardboard sculptures; 5 ways to upcycle denim; and the truly spellbinding 747 Jet that’s being upcycled into a California home. Recycling involves extracting useful material from waste and creating new material and upcycling is converting waste materials into new improved materials or products of better quality or higher environmental value. Recycling and upcycling decreases pollution, unclogs landfills and preserves natural resources. If you see a link that interests you, just click to learn more.
'Container City' Homes Built from Shipping Containers Image Courtesy containercity.com
The Daily Green’s list of ‘Amazing Homes and Offices Built from Shipping Containers’ is quite something. Shipping containers, deployed in abundance for importing and exporting across the globe, are not just recycled but upcycled into green shipping container homes. Known for their durability and affordability, architects and green designers are turning to shipping containers as efficient modular spaces priced cheap but still loaded with a variety of traditional comforts. Marvel at Container City in London, Cove Park in the Scottish countryside or the compact Ecopods.
If you haven’t heard about it yet, this one should fascinate you as an ‘Architect recycles a 747 jet into a house’. That’s right, architect David Hertz paid $35,000 for a jumbo jet from an old airplane scrap dealer and then went through a lot of government red tape to get permission to build it into a house. Francie Rehwald loves organic gardening and all things green, so she hired Hertz to help build her green dream house. Dubbed ‘wing house’, the result is an astounding home in the remote hills of Malibu, California. You can read more about it at Hertz’s website.
If you’re interested in nifty recycled art, here’s 10 stunning animal sculptures made from recycled materials. This list includes sculptures made out of recycled plastic, old newspapers, electronic waste (e-waste), recycled tires and more. There’s also some cool recycled cardboard art which The Daily Green again covers with ‘The Art of Upcycling: 10 Amazing Cardboard Sculptures by Mark Langan’.
If you’re feeling crafty and have some old denim you’re not wearing anymore, check out our previous article which includes 5 ways to upcycle by repurposing your old jeans. Create aprons, baby bibs, shopping bags, notebooks or a quilt using materials you already have in your closet.
And that’s it for this special recycling and upcycling edition of the green news.
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