You know those leaves you rake up and throw away? Would you be impressed if I told you could make cool products including furniture from those leaves? I know you would! Naturecast is doing just that. They are gathering dry leaves, barks, and dead twigs from the city of Compostela in the Phillipines, shredding them [...]
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Travelodge Hotel Made From Shipping Containers
A couple of weeks ago we reported on companies using recycled shipping containers to develop homes. Travelodge has taken it a step further by building an entire hotel in Uxbridge, England out of recycled shipping containers. Not only is Travelodge doing the environment a favor by reducing their material usage by 70%, but they are [...]
Living in a Container
While you may be thinking outside the box for work, you can now live in it when you get home! More and more people are building homes from recycled freight containers. The original idea of using the containers for abodes was started by TempoHousing. Their original idea was to use these old containers as temporary [...]