Design studio RYAN HARC has proposed that aluminum Coca-Cola cans should go paint-less to cut down on energy and material usage.

Sculptor Christopher Fennell created a bus shelter in Atlanta from three decommissioned school busses. Exterior slices of a ‘62,’72, and ‘77 buses were joined together and the seating is from an old city bus. Interesting mix of creative reuse of materials and their context.

Levi Strauss & Co is taking a small step to help decrease the amount of textiles that are thrown away every year by adding a “donate to goodwill” icon to their clothing’s care tags.

The Fixers are a Brooklyn based group that gets together once a week to repair and re-purpose all kinds of broken things – shoes, radios, lamps, clocks – anything is game.

IKEA and WWF are galvanizing Swedish school kids in the ages 6-9 to collect the aluminum shells from tea lights.

In preparation for the NYC Marathon, outdoor clothing company Icebreaker has set up a live seamstress in the window of Paragon Sports in NYC to convert old synthetic running t-shirts into shoe bags for free.

Coca-Cola is initiating a new recycling program in the UK as a way to help deal with the company’s carbon footprint and at the same time do some public good

Carlo Ratti, from the SENSEable City Laboratory at MIT has initiated a project to track where trash goes when we throw it “away”.

A Box Life encourages re-use by tracking the life and use of cardboard boxes.

Artist Justin Gignac set out to prove the value of packaging design to a colleague. Gignac realised the most effective way to make his point was to sell a product no one in their right mind would want – garbage.

New Balance Lifestyle has launched a campaign around a limited release of 480 of their 574 Clips running shoes in a direct attempt to solidify its standing with influential sneaker fans and bloggers.

Jack Bresnahan created a set of nine biodegradable plastic lids that turn old tin cans into different kinds of household containers.

A New Zealand artist has caused a bit of controversy amongst the artistic community in his homeland after winning a contemporary art award utilizing the discarded materials of his competitors.

Using the logic that everything can be recycled into something new, Japanese underwear manufacturer Wacol recently launched a bra recycling campaign. The collected bras were processed and recycled into solid fuel.
The company explains:
“From February to April, we distributed plastic bags to our customers in the hope that they would bring them back full of their old used bras. We have since received 350 bags and around 35,900 items,” indicated the company’s public relations department.
The amount collected, if hooked together, would be three times the height of Mt Everest. Total weight, approximately 3.59 tons.
[via Japan Today]

Designer Joey Roth arrived at the Javits center for the NY Gift Fair last week with some of his products, a Japanese hand saw, and a sketchbook. While other vendors bought crates and pallets full of stuff for their booth displays, Joey instead decided to go about constructing his booth at the show in a unique manner – by using the scraps from the other booths . PSFK tagged along with Joey as he built his booth and we documented the process and result. We put together a short video with Joey explaining the inspiration and unique construction process he [...]