recycling

From The Street To The Street: Skateboard Wheels Made From Gum

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3rd-year French design students, Hugo Maupetit and Vivian Fischer, have created an innovative initiative of collecting discarded chewing gum and transforming the waste into colourful, recycled plastic skateboard wheels. The students’ installed a select number of collection boards in urban areas of Nantes, France, where passersby could paste their used gum; as opposed to dropping …

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This ad is saying that “Volvos are rubbish”

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“This car demonstrates our commitment to our recycled plastics ambition and how, together with our supply base, we can make it without compromising on quality and design,” senior vice president from Volvo procurement, Martina Buchhauser, says. The company clarified this statement on their official blog: “Volvo is continually seeking new ways to reduce our environmental impact across …

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Afterlife

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Sri Lanka’s national English daily Ceylon Today has part of their initiative to encourage and highlight the importance of recycling, launched a series of ‘Afterlife’ ads. Even though, Sri Lankans frequently recycles, they only recycle in big quantities, forgetting the tiny pieces of paper. Ceylon Today made it their mission to put Sri Lanka on …

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