Part of Potting Shed Creations' new line of products the Grow Bottle makes hydroponic herb farming compact and easy to do indoors year-round! Potting Shed Creations prides itself on its sustainable, forward-thinking gardening products. The Grow Bottle, upcycled and composed completely of sourced and re-purposed materials, is no exception. They make the containers from reclaimed, cut wine bottles, a choice of materials that translates as an attractive and socially-aware design model. Included seeds are certified organic with selections ranging from basil to mint.

No clue what to do with old toys? UK artist/ sculptor Robert Bradford creates life-size and larger-than-life sculptures of humans and animals from discarded plastic items, mainly toys but also other colorful plastic bits and pieces, such as combs and buttons, brushes and parts of clothes pegs.

In 2002, he started to consider the possibilities that his children’s forgotten toys could have as part of something bigger. Bradford says he likes the idea that the plastic pieces have a history, some unknown past, and that they also pass on a “cultural” history as each of the pieces represents a point in time. Recycling is not his primary concern, but each sculpture certainly keeps quite a few pieces from becoming landfill. Some of the sculptures contain pieces from up to 3,000 toys!!

Exhibitions: Affordable Art Fair (A'dam) and Royal Academy London

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Being the first denim brand to introduce organic cotton and fair trade jeanswear, Kuyichi and Remy&Veenhuizen share the same innovative and pioneering spirit. A good starting point to establish a close collaboration, creating various objects made of sustainable materials with a Kuyichi twist.

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Like this one, we bumped in earlier!

As Kuyichi HQ is located in the green Dutch town of Haarlem, most of our employees come around by bike.

Now for the hardcore-bikers, there's the dual bike JANO, a bicycle built for lively and spirited biking, for fitness or simply for the daily ride to the office.

Austrian desgin student Roland Kaufmann, built this plywooden designer bike, inspired on his love for wooden kayaks!

In Holland, we all know the first bikes we're built from wood. Since then, most are made of steel nowadays. The funnier, to see a foreigner that reintroduces this recycle-wood solution for such an elemental thing as the bike.

check the storage space for your handbag – inside the wooden frame!
Cool. Keep the Style_Conscious!

Get the facts

Wood is...
up to 10 times stiffer than fibreglass
nearly 6 times stiffer than a kevlar/epoxy composite

Technical specs of JANO

* plywood frame
* maintainance free belt drive system
* hub gear shift
* low resistance hub dynamo
* frame integrated head- and rear lights [leds]
* attachable frame bag and luggage carrier
* optional mudguardsand

Read the full review at Treehugger's, or check the designer's homepage here.

Then check out Superuse.org...

Superuse.org is an online community of designers, architects and everybody else, interested in inventive ways of recycling.

Get inspired by the ballpoint chandelier, billboard advertisements sheltering earthquake refugees, or disused London Tube carriages, being used as shops or studio space!

Or how about "recycled food"; fallen fruit! find it, grab it, share it.

Think of what you can do with the chuck loads of waist we keep throwing out every day & impressive ideas will cross the mind!

Keep that Style_Conscious - while there's more to do then just recycling your outfit only, so many more is possible!!

Find your local inspiring recycling supplier at... www.superuse.org