8 original ways to recycle garbage - second life instead of landfill

Here you can find out what application resourceful people have found for ordinary garbage, and how unsuitable, as it were, things have found a second life.

If you carefully look under your feet, or rather, to sort through and rationally use the garbage, you can solve a lot of pressing problems and even be realized in art.

1. Popular installations from garbage

The notorious artist Liza Hawke, with the help of solid waste, makes remarkable installations that take for the show the most popular galleries of the world. That's how the artist also draws attention to the problem of accumulation of debris in the world.

2. Garbage

Recently, many designers turned to the topic of garbage and began to create clothes from it. What is most interesting, such fashion shows are popular, dresses themselves are very beautiful and unusual. Some garbage can even be worn.

3. Auto from garbage collection

There are lovers of cars in our world who are capable of making old car parts thrown to the dump, making brand new shiny cars, interesting not only in design, but also in driving performance. This is an excellent option for secondary processing of unnecessary auto parts, bodies, etc. And an Englishman Paul Bacon managed to collect a car from plastic and metal debris, which for years accumulated in his garage.

4. 3D printer on plastic bottles

The company 3D System offered a truly innovative option for processing plastic bottles. They created a three-dimensional Ekocycle Cube printer, the cartridge of which is partly to be filled with empty plastic bottles. To date, plastic containers from the total mass of filler cartridge occupies only a fourth, but the development is continuing to ensure that this share has been significantly increased.

5. Musical instruments from garbage

In Paraguay, in the small town of Kateura, the inspired and ideological music teacher Favio Chavez, in conjunction with the guitar master and the garbage collector Nicolas Gomez, began creating musical instruments for students directly from the garbage, as there was an acute shortage in school. In the course went cans, packing boxes, pipes and even barrels from oil products, etc. Of these materials, 2 people created flutes, guitars, cellos and other instruments.

6. "Mona Lisa" from motherboards

On the famous painting "Mona Lisa" there are already many "remakes", but the most unusual of them was presented in 2009 by ASUS. The installation was created from a set of already unsuitable parts removed from motherboards. The company wanted to emphasize that their work is also an art. Also similar paintings from the electronics components are created by the designer from Italy Franco Rechia.

7. House of old cars

American Karl Vanaselea from the city of Berkeley built a real house from a car. Since this person is an architect by profession, he created all the sketches, calculations and selected such unusual materials for construction himself. This is an excellent alternative for creating economical housing, while it is quite strong and original. Well, the problem with garbage is solved.

8. Landfill gas

One of the American scientists came up with the option of how to process organic waste, turning it into a synthetic gas. His method is unique in that there is no polluting emissions to the atmosphere when incineration is burned according to the proposed variant. This option is one of the best in the fight against the accumulation of organic waste. And the resulting compound of hydrogen and carbon dioxide, syngas, can be actively used for fuel production.