For the people who want to be creative and be eco-friendly at the same time, here is something you can check out. They are the Rays – a Disposable Paper Cup Lamp which should help recycle and make used cups into something useful and crafty.

By cutting the paper cups in half and then gluing them in a roof-like pattern, get some ambiance-rendering and enigmatic illumination from a unique and eco-friendly looking lamp. Use it as a wall lamp or a stand lamp, get the relaxing mood through lighting with this “Cup of Lights” while helping do your own little thing for the environment as well. This could be a great DIY idea as well for people who want to turn trash into something useful.

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Rays Disposable Paper Cup Lamps

Here is another uniquely designed chair for you, something with reuse ideas that could inspire you to turn trash into gold. The Spray Paint Can Armchair comes from Luigi Semerano and is composed of 200 empty cans of spray paint.

The cans are held into place by wooden panels which incidentally also features a footrest. While the chair is indeed impressive and is an eco-friendly masterpiece, it doesn’t look like the chair will be available for retail purchase. The chair was designed from the Milan Design Week 2011. Too bad, it could have really been something eco-friendly peeps would have loved to get.

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The Spray Paint Can Armchair

Here is a piece of table made for the avid golfers. The La Gota Table may not necessarily be your conventional table but will certainly tie you up as a golf addict. It comes with an ingeniously simple design that will keep your space tidier than ever, this table is equipped with a hollow leg fit for all your trash.

This table was designed by Timothy Emmott and seems to be more practical beyond its built-in garbage feature.

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The La Gota Table

As far as ink cartridges are concerned, the usual routine is to recycle them or have them refilled. But for the creative minds, here is a new way to make use of those empty printer cartridges, an ink cartridge lamp that should be add some ambiance to the ordinary room.

Ink cartridges get tossed in the trash plenty, so one Etsy seller decided to reuse those and turn them into a new form of technology. These small lamps might not be bright enough to read by, but if you are going to spend the money for novelty lights, you might as well pick up ones that are recycled. That way it’s a little more eco-friendly.

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Ink Cartridge Lamps

If there is one thing about cooking, it is pealing fruits and vegetables which many would not like. We have seen peelers come out one after the other and apparently this is one peeler that cooks and home owners are going to love.

The Veggie Peel is a peeler with a clear plastic chamber built into it to catch all the peels. When you’re done, it’s easy to take apart the Veggie Peel and empty it into the trash. Coming with a double-sided, curved rubber grip, it’s easy for both lefties and righties to peel the veggies with ease.

Price: $20

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Veggie Peel Aids Cooks

There has to be something weird about this Spelta Lamp. You may even mistake it for a garbage can but then again, concepts and designs come in different forms and sizes. And for the Spelta Lamp, it makes use of “interwoven transparencies stretched to create a soft and organic form.”

The rectangular modules of polypropylene are interchangeable and can be swapped for different materials, colors and finishes, all at the user’s whim.

Just don’t start throwing pieces of trash on to it since it may seem tempting.

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Spelta Lamp

In a home, you are bound to see a couple of walls bare and dull. But that doesn’t have to be the case especially if you want to do something about it. With a couple of stuff you may have around, you can consider making some hanging ornaments based on what you deem as creative and hang them up.

Paintings are normally the first recourse. But that would mean buying and incurring costs just to brighten up a dull part of your home. So why go through the trouble of spending if you can do it yourself. All you need are some vague objects such as perhaps cartons or even pistachio shells. They may look like trash but you can turn them into gold in a hurry with the right perspective.

Just rummage around the house and gather the things that look pretty. Remember, the satisfaction of turning out something which is very beautiful, out of things which most people throw away without giving it a second thought, will also earn you brownie points for being creative and also eco-friendly.

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Put Personality in Blank Walls

Just how do we categorize antiques and quality furniture? Surely, most of us throw out old and used furniture for the purpose of replacing them with modern and new ones. However, it also remains that at times, old furniture has a place in the home of another.

So for homes and universities like Harvard University, perhaps some used quality furniture may be thrown away but could be of use to you. It doesn’t necessarily need to be tagged as trash. It just so happens that they are doing some Spring cleaning and apparently wanting to modernize their home. But while that is true, do remember, if in the eyes of one person they are trash, perhaps in the eyes of another it can be worth more than gold.

Harvard University gives away tons of used furniture and office equipment at its recycling center. Hammad Ahmed reports that these days it isn’t just thrift seekers picking through the piles and bins.

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Priced Furniture Antiques May be at Harvard’s Junk

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