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3D Printed Vases Turn Plastic Bottles into Decorative Objects

Posted: 19 Apr 2016 02:00 PM PDT


Sending plastic packaging waste to a recycling facility may be better than tossing it on a landfill, but finding a way to extend the item's use in its current form is almost always a greener (and cheaper) choice. Instead of putting your used plastic water and soda bottles in the recycling bin, you could be transforming them into beautiful vessels for cut flowers with the addition of beautiful 3D-printed shells in lace-like patterns that screw into the necks of standard bottles like caps. Read more…

London’s Calling. For a Wooden Skyscraper!

Posted: 18 Apr 2016 05:14 PM PDT


A wooden skyscraper for London? Yes! Architects are hailing the material as the new steel, feting the arrival of the so-called timber age. To a layperson like us, a timber tower in a metropolis sounds exotic. Why wood? The team of architects made up of PLP, Smith and Wallwork, and Cambridge University's Centre for Natural Material say in their proposal that the choice is more sustainable, since wood is a renewable resource. Read more…

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