10 stylish recycled products

Anonymous User 29 June 2008 07:49am

i think this is dangerous, too, though. it seems that the "sustainability" movement has turned too far into the habbit of saying, "look, these little differences make a difference!" people receive a strong impression that their lifestyles shouldn't have to be altered in any way. but the fact is, we in the rich world use too much stuff, and no matter where it comes from, it's too much. i know of people who will now buy things new that they don't need, just because they can recycle it. i also have had FAR too many conversations where people have told me that important changes to their lifestyles (particularly biking instead of driving) is simply inconvenient for them, so, although they "support the idea", they feel justified to leave the cutting back to some magical group who just happen to have it be convenient to cycle commute (there is no such magic group - it takes somewhat radical reorganisation of our lives to accommodate this change). while recycling already wasted goods in cool ways is a killer idea, and i think it makes a terrific symbolic statement, promoting the idea that "you don't have to look like some loser poor person - just buy your stuff here instead of there!" is only making a huge hindrance to the progress of the "sustainability" movement.

Anonymous User 29 June 2008 06:24pm

ya, what they said *points above*
While I wholly support remanufactured products, there is this terrible idea in our society that unless your stuff is new new new, it's embarrassing garbage. Can't have "last year's" model! LAST YEAR?! Are you freakin' kidding me?! This is INSANE and we will be destroyed by it. Our planet, on the other hand, will be just fine...once it's rid of us.
I use old wooden fruit & wine boxes for bookshelves. They work great because if I move, I don't have to pack my books, and there are really unique wood burned stamps on the outside of the boxes. I find my kitchen appliances at garage sales and thrift stores, because I have better things to spend $40 on than a freakin' toaster. And I buy my furniture at the same places too, because I'm guaranteed that no one else will have the same furniture and it won't be treated with toxic chemicals like Scotchguard and flame retardent before it's delivered to my house. Because really, if my house catches on fire, or floods, are any of those really going to keep my couch in "like new" condition?

Anonymous User 01 July 2008 03:59pm

Ugly, stupid, dysfunctional. And that's just the start. I would never, ever, let this thing into my house and would run from anyone's house if I saw this elsewhere.
By the way, I work at a large retailer. This is okay in supermarkets, that's where it should stay.

Anonymous User 02 July 2008 05:33pm

Did you know that if you buy a few overpriced items that claims to be made from recycled stuff, you'll singlehandedly stop the downward spiral of destructive consumer decadence forever? It's called "fighting fire with fire" and it works- so buy my book "1001 Ways to Fight Mindless Consumer Spending", only $29.99 and printed on 2% recycled paper and delivered right to your door in recycled shrinkwrap inside a 1% recycled cardboard box stuffed with 5% recycled styrofoam popcorn by a freight service powered by 100% recycled dinosaurs.

Anonymous User 03 July 2008 10:45am

HELLO, I OWN A PAIR OF "WORN AGAIN" SHOES, AND THEY ARE SOOOO.... UNCOMFORTABLE!!! DONT BUY THEM UNLESS YOU WANT YOUR FEET TO SCREAM, "I HATE YOU, WHY DO YOU SACRIFICE BEING GREEN FOR LOSING COMFORT?" AND THATS THE THING ABOUT "BEING GREEN" IS THAT IT'S SO UNCOMFORTABLE ALL THEY TIME, I HATE IT.

Anonymous User 03 July 2008 10:46am

HELLO, I OWN A PAIR OF "WORN AGAIN" SHOES, AND THEY ARE SOOOO.... UNCOMFORTABLE!!! DONT BUY THEM UNLESS YOU WANT YOUR FEET TO SCREAM, "I HATE YOU, WHY DO YOU SACRIFICE BEING GREEN FOR LOSING COMFORT?" AND THATS THE THING ABOUT "BEING GREEN" IS THAT IT'S SO UNCOMFORTABLE ALL THEY TIME, I HATE IT.

Anonymous User 03 July 2008 11:54am

i could not have expressed it better than all of the above have still got some china and other odds and ends that we collected from our local dump in the seventies

Anonymous User 04 July 2008 08:48am

$200 for a wallet?! Very few people can actually afford to go green, it seems.

Anonymous User 04 July 2008 01:28pm

I've come up with a neat recycling object...using soup cans and tuna cans to send my pearls in to my customers. The cans are washed, naturally, and hopefully don't have a "fishy" smell. I add my own label and presto, a safe mailing container. I just pop them into a bag and send. The "Good Cooks" can opener opens cans without the sharp edges and in a way that the cover can be placed loosly back on top. Pretty nifty. This makes the cans reusable. "Pearls in a Can"!
See: http://www.KariPearls.com/pearls-in-a-can.html

Kari

Anonymous User 12 August 2008 07:47pm

Recycling a shopping trolley to be a chair that looks like a shopping trolley is the worst idea I've ever seen. I'd rather stand.

I liked the "100% recycled dinosaur" jibe.

Anonymous User 12 August 2008 08:01pm

Listen up all you tree huggers.In a few zillion years this whole planet will be toasted by our dying red giant sun and that will recycle all that has ever been.So book up now for Virgin Intergalactic cos that is the only way off this rock and lets find another rock to trash.

Anonymous User 14 August 2008 04:36am

Well, I like the chair.