recycled media..

here used a coke tin as a base for my painting

recycling coke Tins

"जो चाहो हो जाये, कोका-कोला enjoy!

recycling coke tin...!probably im succesfulll :p

flowers from reused book pages, magazines or newspaper

courtesy : thejunkwave

You need:

• Pages from anold, reused book, magazine or newspaper(reuse always – never new use. Recycled crafts are hot.)
• Glue gun
• Buttons or covered cardboard disks (the inside waxy disk of a milk bottle top will do it)
• Scissors
• Pencil
• Sticky tape

How to make your paper craft flowers from book pages, magazines or newspaper:

1. Rip several pages from your book or newspaper (that have print on both sides) and make sure they are stacked evenly.

Cut the pages, all at once – so they are the same size – into even strips that are about 5cm wide.

Then cut thin strips 3/4 of the way into the paper all the way down.

2. Roll the strip up, pretty tight, pinching the bottom as you go.

3. Tape the bottom tightly. Stick a pencil in the middle and pull open the sides to spread it out like a flower. Set this aside.

4. Next you will repeat the same steps with another cut strip, only this time when you roll it up, roll it not so tight. You want to leave an opening to slip the first rolled layer into.

Open this one up also. First the bottom of the first rolled layer into this layer’s opening and secure tightly with a small blob of glue.

5. If you want an even thicker flower, you can repeat the above steps again, with the third layer having an even bigger hole.

Spread out the layers to your liking. You can also trim some of the inner layers for a more feathered effect.

6. Next, I hot glued some vintage buttons onto the centres. They really finish off the look! From there I hot glued the flowers into a small vase. It looks great on my bookshelves!

Junk Jumbo

This Jumbo is made of exclusively Junk...leaving colors nd glue...

material used:

• plastic bottles -for body -legs-trunk-ears
• mini feviquick tube-for tail
• waste paper
• coin cells-expired

  

Save paper..

Recycling  ONE ton of paper will save:

• 4,000 Kwh of electricity
• 2.5 barrels (1,755 litres) of oil required to convert wood into paper
• 3 cubic meters of landfill
• 31,780 liters of water
• • • Save the felling of 17 full grown trees

Houses wit PET

The Houses That PET Built - source Greenopolis

Eco-minded architects and designers are making treasure out of trash by recycling used PET bottles into beautiful, sustainable, buildings.

One of the wonderful things about being recycle-minded is that every piece of trash is an opportunity to recreate something wonderful.  At least, that's the way I felt when I saw testaments to the miracle of recycling — houses, cisterns, furniture, bus stops and even entire schools — made from recycled PET plastic bottles.

Eco-tec, an award-winning Honduran company, has used recycled PET plastic bottles for construction of houses, water tanks, and even schools.  

Using some 8,000 PET recycled bottles, Eco-Tec created the "casa ecológica" or ecological house, as a means of providing sustainable construction methods and employment in Honduras. 

70% of the structures built by Eco-Tec are made up of recycled PET bottles reclaimed from landfills and local clean-up projects.  The bottles are filled with sand and sealed before construction use.


Each casa ecologica  has a "living roof" made from sod and turf which insulates the house better than a conventional roof.  And although the roof weighs in at 30 metric tons when wet, the PET bottle walls to support the weight without effort.

Eco-Tec has gone beyond the experimental stages, and has tactually built over a dozen homes and community centers from PET bottles. 

It took Tomislav Radovanovic five years and 13,500 plastic bottles to build the 60 sq meter house in Kragujevac, Serbia. 

Only the foundation of the property is concrete, and all other parts of the house are made of plastic bottles that Radovanovic collected over many years.  Even the kitchen furniture and windows are made of plastic bottles.

This house can be found at Puerto Iguazu, a frontier town on the border between Argentina and Brazil. This amazing house, made by  Alfredo Santa Cruz and his family, is constructed entirely from recycled materials.  Over 1200 recycled PET bottles, 1300 Tetra Pak cartons, 140 CD cases which are used as doors and windows, and an additional 340 plastic bottles that have been recycled into couches and a bed. Mr. Santa Cruz and family now spend their time teaching others how to use recyclables as building materials.  

"Domestic waste can be transformed into useful stuff. We developed our own technique, which allows people to build a house that's perfectly functional at a very low cost and with their own hands. This is not just a project, but a reality," says Santa Cruz.

This striking bright orange schoolhouse in Granados, Guatemala, is constructed primarily of reclaimed plastic bottles.  

After noticing the amount of plastic trash littering Guatemalan streets and realizing that many schools did not even have walls, Peace Corps volunteer Laura Kutner decided to make a difference. 

With help of local businesses and volunteers, Kutner began work on a school house made from recycled PET bottles.  

Over 6,000 bottles were filled with plastic grocery bags, chip bags, and other waste, and were placed inside a metal fencing to create the structure. More trash was used to fill up the spaces between the fencing and the bottles.


Using recycled PET plastic bottles for construction offers an affordable, sustainable solution to the need for adequate building construction in developing countries.

the Junk Jaswanti-hibiscus from Junk

a flower made from -scrap of PET bottle