Environmental Graffiti

The Awesome Way To Recycle a Dumpster [pics]

Goldsmith's design graduate, Oliver Bishop-Young, unveiled two interesting proposals for the re-use of dumpsters (or skips as they're called in the UK) at the New Designers' festival earlier this month - but would you have lunch in a dumpster, or more to the point, would you swim in one? The first proposal is for a website where people can share information about the contents of their skip and others can salvage it (demo now online).

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Rothschild Sails Across the Pacific on a Piece of Junk

Our friends at Men's Vogue recently featured an interesting interview with eco-adventurer, David de Rothschild, and although he may be a member of one of the world's most famous banking families, he's far from being all about the deal - his environmental interests have taken him across the globe from New Zealand to the frozen ice caps of Greenland and now the intrepid explorer is about to embark on one of his most challenging expeditions to date: crossing the Pacific on a boat made of garbage!

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7 Unconventional and Creative Ways To Recycle

Image from Richalandonline.com Recycling is often such a boring and easy task that it’s hard to get people to change their ways, in order to make them do it. If the blue or green trash bin is just like the black one, only I can’t put everything I [...]

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Beachgoers Leave 6 Million Tons of Trash

If you pay any attention to the media-driven vision of the beach, you understand that it’s a pristine, beautiful place that we all go to on vacation, and leave no trace of our existence on once we leave.  Image from Hans Van Reenen on Flickr The Ocean [...]

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Massachusetts Town Hires Professional Landfill Sniffers

I think we may have found a new candidate for the next list of 100 worst jobs in the world. Here’s a possible job description: Do you enjoy smelling horrible things all day? Can you rate horrible smells on a scale of 1-8? If so, then we’ve got [...]

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