Landfill Decomposition Rates

Recycled Plastic Bottles on Landfill

Landfill Decomposition Rates

Newspaper: 2 to 4 weeks or longer

Milk Carton: 5 years

Cigarette Butt: up to 5 years. & leaches toxins into the ground

Aluminum Can: 80 to 200 years

Plastic Milk Jugs: 500 years

Plastic Bags: hundreds of years

Plastic Drinking Bottles: hundreds of years

Glass Bottles: tens of thousands of years

Styrofoam: no sign of ever breaking down

(Figures from ecocomic.com)

What do you think ?

Recycled Chopsticks and Hanger

Hanger Lamps

Chopsticks Folding as Fruit Basket

Coat Hanger from Broken Chair

Courtesy of: eco-artware.com

‘Breaking the Bottle’ by Mark Reigelman at Heller Gallery

Mark Reigelman: Breaking the Bottle at Heller Gallery

Brooklyn-based artist mark reigelman has created ‘breaking the bottle,’ a site-specific installation on display at new york city’s heller gallery. taking cues from the handmade glass defenses found on fences and rooftops worldwide, this work encrusts twelve household objects, including chairs, lamps, and a bearskin rug, in protective layers of broken shards. the collection is placed on a pedestal with dimensions matching the artist’s childhood living room, arranged to suggest a familiar domestic landscape. 
all images courtesy of mark reigelman

More on this LINK: http://www.designboom.com/art/mark-reigelman-breaking-the-bottle-at-heller-gallery/

Recycled LampShades

Dressing soda tabs each row with a ROYGBIV paint scheme

Decorative-lighting-recycled-plastic

Cut assorted fabric remnants into long strips and then tie them in alternating layers around the perimeter of a metal lampshade frame

Denim scraps can be sewn together for a weathered lampshade

Fitting metal soda can tabs together like puzzle pieces will yield a slick-looking shade with a slightly industrial edge

Old picture slides, photo negatives lampshade

Pastel- and neon-coated ping-pong balls will shine new light on your design possibilities.

Rolled-up or coiled magazine pages make a surprisingly attractive lampshade

Venture down the road less traveled with a handmade map lampshade

X-ray film lampshade

Defective fluorescent lampshade

Recycled Old and Defective Watches

Your old and defective watches can turn into a motorcycle miniature.

Recycling Plastic Measuring Tape

A tape measure or measuring tape is a flexible ruler. It consists of a ribbon of cloth, plastic, fiber glass, or metal strip with linear-measurement markings. Tape measures that were intended for use in tailoring or dressmaking were made from flexible cloth or plastic.These types of tape measures or mainly used for the measuring of the human's waist line. Today, measuring tapes made for sewing are made of fiberglass, which does not tear or stretch as easily and your old plastic measuring tape must not go on trash, just a little bit of creativity and you will have a nice tape measure craft and decor.