![Students and staff at Newcastle University have created a pop-up cafe built entirely out of upcycled waste, including plastic drink bottles and cardboard boxes. The team spent three months designing and constructing the cross disciplinary project, which was contributed to by engineers, architects and social scientists.
The U-Cafe was designed to challenge our perception of waste and explore new ways of creating sustainable buildings. It features chairs made from plastic bottles, walls constructed using cardboard boxes, and staff aprons made out of recycled plastic bags.
Via: Pop-Up Cafe Built Entirely Out Of Garbage [Video] - PSFK](http://25.media.tumblr.com/7512d093b06a3f02dbff4a7f499267df/tumblr_mm4hz7taJg1qzv12bo1_400.jpg)
Students and staff at Newcastle University have created a pop-up cafe built entirely out of upcycled waste, including plastic drink bottles and cardboard boxes. The team spent three months designing and constructing the cross disciplinary project, which was contributed to by engineers, architects and social scientists.
The U-Cafe was designed to challenge our perception of waste and explore new ways of creating sustainable buildings. It features chairs made from plastic bottles, walls constructed using cardboard boxes, and staff aprons made out of recycled plastic bags.
Via: Pop-Up Cafe Built Entirely Out Of Garbage [Video] - PSFK
At the American Academy in Rome, filmmaker Nicholas Heller follows Visiting Artist Ann Weber on her daily rounds, scavenging cardboard boxes out of dumpsters, collecting ideas from architectural details and Bernini sculptures and creating sculpture in her studio.
Repurposed cardboard, y’all.
See also: The prom dress a high school student made from cardboard and paper bags and her previous year’s prom dress made from soda pop tabs.
Additional proof that you can make clothes from, well, just about anything? Check out these items made from Golden books, book pages, computer wires, shirt collars, t-shirts, dry cleaner bags, a parachute, bicycle tire inner tubes, Starburst candy wrappers, plastic shower curtains, and a FEMA tarp. Whew!
(Cardboard dress photo via Strode College. I doubt that a wearer could sit down in this dress, but still, cool repurposing!)
I do what I’m guessing many of you do, and reuse all of my incoming cardboard boxes by turning them inside-out for re-shipping.
Well, the sticky people over at 3M and Scotch apparently want in on this box-reusing action. Scotch/3M now answers “the three R’s” with “four R’s” of their own: “Reinforce, Re-cover, Remove, Re-seal.” Their four new products aimed at getting you to reuse cardboard boxes for shipping are as follows:
Continue here: To Encourage Box Reuse, 3M Adds Four R’s - Core77
DIY project du jour:
Make a lamp from cardboard and an LED lighting kit.
How-to: Desktop Lamp — Instructables
Streep 180 is a bench made of cardboard with a laminated top to add comfort and colour.
This is a very sturdy and durable bench for everyday use. Contrary to most cardboard products on the market, this bench is made out of honeycombed cardboard. The honeycombed structure is 18-20cm thick and you can jump on it!
The Italian design studio A4Adesign has a long history working with this recycled and recyclable material. ….
Made in Italy from recycled cardboard.
(via A4ADesign, cardboard green furniture, made in Italy)
As you know, we are big on cardboard reuse here at Unconsumption…
Now here’s a simple, clever Halloween costume idea — repurposing a cardboard box.
“God’s gift,” made by friend of Unconsumption Garth Johnson; spotted on The Etsy Blog here. (You may recall Garth’s addition to Unconsumption’s Uncollection: Garth spruced up some old plates by adding our Mr. Cart logo onto them.)
Have you reused cardboard to make a Halloween costume? If so, share — by November 2 — a photo of your creation in The Cardboard Collective’s “Cardboard Costume Challenge” Flickr pool here, so other folks can check out your handiwork.
Open-ended constructive play is something that should always be encouraged, and while we often see it with LEGO and other building blocks, rarely do we see it in such a large format.
Valerie from Inner Child Fun devised a simple way to make cardboard panels cut from a large box into a modular building system. By making a few evenly spaced slits in each panel, they can be made to lock together in just about any direction.
“For creative kids in Wellington, New Zealand, Capital E is the place to be during school holidays. In a flurry of activity that spread over 11 action-packed days, this sprawling cardboard metropolis was built under the banner of Lets Play City.”
Another, less elaborate cardboard-city-for-kids described in this earlier post.
good:
Cycle on the Recycled: A $9 Cardboard Bike Set to Enter Production in Israel
The last time your purchased something made entirely from cardboard, chances are it was a box to pack up your belongings. While the sturdy material is perfect for moving your stuff, an inventor from Israel has figured out a way to make cardboard move you.
And for an accessory: This previously mentioned cardboard cycling helmet!
Click through for several DIY ideas: Repurpose Cardboard Boxes into Kid Crafts/Toys! « CraigslistDad
Spotted on Pinterest here.
For earlier Unconsumption posts about cardboard, look here.
Manchester-based Lazerian created a cardboard office “cocoon” made from a company’s waste.
More: TreeHugger
