Recent recommended reducing, reusing and recycling links
(mmm, alliteration)
- I love this simple but cute idea for baked gifts – using an old food can as a baking container and gift packaging in one. I first thought it was biscuits/cookies in the can – it would work well for those too, protecting them from getting crushed.
- These lamps from old piping are great – straddling the line between being industrial and looking like strange bulb-headed creatures!
- Notes from the Frugal Trenches is part way through a “100 Simple Ways to Save” round-up – lots of great ideas that aren’t just frugal, they encourage reducing too (part one; part two; part three; part four)
- As someone currently seeking out baskets, this basket from blue jeans tutorial is definitely going on my to-try list.
- Finally, check out this table runner make by fixing together old doilies – very pretty work.
(Photo by ChasingFireflies)
The lamps from old piping look like lamps from new piping to me.
Kozo’s web site says, ‘All the lamps are handmade by us in our design clinic and they are all assembled with high standard components. The parts that we use are handpicked from manufacturers all around the world, baring the trademarks of their origin. The materials are left raw and alive with rusty edges and the marks from the hand tools that were used in the manufacturing process. The innovative faucet light switch and several additional components are manufactured by us at the clinic. Each lamp is double checked before it leaves our clinic and we take full responsibility for the sustainability and high quality of our designs. Since the first lamp was sold we expanded the inventory to 7 models and many more will come.’
In fact, far from being eco-lamps, these look like gross over-design and a hopeless case of the squandering of the world’s resources. Are you sure that they are made from salvage?
You can buy quirky lights made in the UK using salvaged bits by Guy Trench, a one-man reuse evangelist ‘Antiques by Design’ who had a stand at the recent Salvo Fair at Knebworth. He also makes coffee tables from old steel galvanised water tanks. http://www.antiquesbydesign.co.uk/
Unfortunately thousands of perfectly reusable old lamps are thrown away every week in the UK.
Yes, they very much look like they’re made from new piping – sorry for being unclear. When I’m posting these links, I’m not advocating people buying the item though, it’s just supposed to be for inspiration – and they could use the inspiration of those lamps to make their own out of used piping.
I very much like Guy’s lamps and furniture too though – very imaginative (and inspiring) stuff.
I love the idea of bread in a can, but am wondering how you get the stuff out to eat it..?
I thought that too – I guess if it’s greased properly it might slide out…?
I think as its flavoured bread and only a small portion they are just wanting you to eat it from the can, if you could ease it out it would be interesting to see if it kept the ripple effect :D.
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had been doing a little homework onn this. And he in fact ordered
me breakfast simply because I discovered it for him…
lol. So allow me to reword this…. Thank YOU
ffor the meal!! But yeah, thanks for spending time too talk
about this topic here on your weeb page.