It’s all well and good getting these fancy energy saving gadgets, but what do we do with all the old gadgets we’ve got? Recycling electronic devices is not that easy, so here are 10 eco-friendly ways to recycle your gadgets rather than send them to landfill.
Finding eco toys for kids these days seems to be getting easier and easier. The kit is basically a collection of bits that allows you to create a Catamaran using 500ml or 1 litre drinks bottles for buoyancy. So essentially you’re encouraging kids to recycle drinks bottles and turn it into a toy.
Drinks glasses are pretty conventional, with the odd freaky design here and there. However, these have been made from recycled Grolsch, Sol and Corona bottles.
If you use lots of tin cans or have lots of beer cans around, you know that the cans take up a lot of space when you’re recycling them. Well having a handy means that you can keep the kids occupied (it can be one of their fun chores), as well as keep the space...
The All-in-One Home Recycling Centre by Mode is a home recycling system that sorts and stores all of your recyclable rubbish. The recycling centre features a patent-pending compaction system that will crush cans without using electricity, but also stores and sorts plastic, metal, glass and paper.
Ciclus, a Spanish design company, were tasked with creating a gift with the theme of turning waste into resources. Their delivered concept was wine packaging that also doubled as a lamp.
Sometimes an eco-friendly gadget doesn’t need to do anything more than just look good. I’ve seen these before, but I think they’re really smart. PCBs are really difficult to recycle, as they contain many many chemicals, most of them toxic.
A company called fabrik has announced the release of an energy efficient green gadget, an external hard drive utilising a low power hard disk and a case made from recycled materials. The drive has no noisy fans (which also cuts down on power consumption), and the case is made using recycled aluminium to efficiently dissipate...
