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Artist Angela Singer is an animal rights activist and creates artwork using discarded taxidermies. She uses the items to create new art forms which help put her message across and also clearly indicates the divide between humans and animals. While her work is not conventional it has a huge impact considering she uses real taxidermies. This is a recycling art campaign to spread awareness of cruelty against animals. The artist clearly sends the message across by decorating these animals to put her point across.

The Aviary are art enthusiasts who want to break away from the conventional norms of beauty and create refreshing art forms that have been created out of recycled materials only. They specialize in making jewelry, keepsakes, gifts and accessories. The organization has made its priority to use recycled materials only so that not only is pollution decreased but also creativity is enhanced. All their products make a strong statement about recycling and prove that ingenuity and innovation can lead to a cleaner world.

The stupendous designs from Atelier Hapax have come to become some of the finest art forms in the modern day. How exquisite can the chess board be? The design that has been created out of recycled materials while is colorful and totally beats the ostentatious form that a chessboard retains, yet it bears all the essence of the classic game. This recycled chessboard is more colorful and way cooler than its inspiration. The yellow, orange color design along with twisted rooks is insuperably cool.

Artist Garry LeMaster is an artist who does something that is surprisingly unique and almost unknown. The artist is known for his excellent craftsmanship on egg shells. He has found a stupendous use of eggs and his craftsmanship depicts how to use daily items to create something par excellence? His artwork comprises of detailed textures on the egg shell which though makes them delicate, but also show the nuances of details that can be created on something as fragile as an egg.

Artist Brian Dettemer is a professional artist who is known to create abstract designs made from books that have no longer got any use. The artist uses his creative bent of mind and hi aesthetic sense to transform these books into such beautifully crafted items that defy the conventional norms of beauty. He uses singular and multiple books to create his exquisite art work, which are all exhibited in different art galleries. His audacious style certainly shows yet another form of art that has been unknown.

Designer Yu Jordy Fu creates artwork as a gesture to protect the environment and also to capture emotions and feelings into her work. While some of her designs can be utilitarian, yet the aesthetic touch that they have makes them all cherished art forms. This includes Cloud Lamp which is handmade design formed using recycled paper. All her designs are as exquisite as any other of her work. She truly embodies the spirit of recycling, and spreads the awareness via her work.

Recycled artwork can be used in architecture to create spectacular designs. Australian brand Aesop which specializes in botanical skin care products has built a retail store which has a ceiling made out of empty recycled bottles. This ceiling has got a wave form and the bottles as they glint in the light offer one of the most spectacular views in the interiors of the building. The bottles have been used as a part of innovative design and as a part of promotion of recycling and the appropriate use of natural resources.

When the toys are broken, they can be used to create beautiful art forms. Ryan McElhinney is an artist who has proved that small items like children’s toys can be used to create beautiful and artistic forms. The artist binds the broken parts together and then coats them with high gloss polyurethane lacquer. The artist has not just created artistic forms, but also is into the creation of beautiful interior design décor.  All his designs are unique, creative and artistically graceful.

If your kids have stopped using straws for their drink, do not throw the straws away. Designer Scott Jarvie has come up with many interesting interior decoration ideas and his latest is the Clutch Light which has been made using recycled colorful striped drinking straws. The designer has used hundreds of straws to create an item that looks cute and elegant at the same time. This lamp is in the shape of a pie and can be hung on the wall.

Yogurt can be healthy and also help you make a lamp. A designer has come up with a unique way to dispose off the used up yogurt containers. The design was a result of an attempt to create a design that has a new look. The yogurt lamp is one of the best creations that you can have around the house. With the red and yellow colors, this lamp emanates vibrancy around the room while subverting brightness and reducing it to an ambient luminosity.

Wonder what they do with old airline seats? They turn them into bags. Worn Again Virgin is a collection of bags form old Virgin Atlantic airline seat covers along with other reclaimed items like discarded seat belts and inner tubes of bicycle tires. This is an initiative by Virgin Atlantic Airlines to reduce the waste generated by the discarded items. As a result of this initiative, the money raised goes to a charitable fund that is managed by Anti Apathy, who are a nonprofit organizations trying to promote sustainable lifestyle.

Cigarette butts are non biodegradable and hence are a threat to environment. However, Chilean based designer the Geurrero Mantis has found a way to use them to create attires. Couture has always depicted the modern trends and the designer has aimed at promoting a cause with the use of 10% of these recycled cigarette butts in his clothing line. His work is called the Mantis project and it aims at the use of the cigarette filters constructively so that they do not cause pollution.

Cans that have been thrown away have found a creative use with the organization called Canstruction. The organization raises funds to fight against hunger. It has been at the center of competitions involving art made out of recyclable cans. As a result of these competitions, the world has seen a huge amount of talent and exceptional forms of art work. From polar bears to clock towers the organization has caused some of the finest art forms made out of recycled cans.

Recycling bottle caps by using them to make exquisite furniture items is a new art form. Rick Ladd has done just the same and the end result is furniture item that offers a baroque look and feel to these chairs and armoires. These pieces have been exhibited in different art galleries across the United States and have been hailed as one of the iconic art forms in the contemporary art circles. This is one of the most unique creations that have come out from the use of bottle caps.

The Pad Stash is a unique creation that is an exquisite device for the I-Pad. This is a design that combines the old world style elegance with new world functionality. Die-cut wool that has been recycled has been used in the creation of this design. It is not only elegant on the outside but also from the inside. There are soft security pockets along with SIM card slots to organize the important items without any problems. It is available in Caviar Heather color.

Steelplant is a company that extensively uses recycled steel for the creation of its remarkable products. The Desktop Dumpster is an innovative creation that is a stylish and quirky item to have on the desktop. It helps hold useful items of daily use, which include stationary, CDs, medicines or anything that you desire. 7.5 inches wide, 11.5 inches long and 9.25 inches tall, these are beautiful and cute creations. Each of the Dumpster weighs approximately 8 pounds and has been designed with beautiful street art.

All those who throw away Tetra Brik boxes will think again after seeing the amazing Tetrabox Lamp. This recycled lamp has been made using strips on empty Tetra Brik boxes which are folded and put together in this amazing spherical structure. The basic shape of the lamp is in the form of a geodesic  dome that is created by folding the strips into triangles and then a hexagonal module. It takes approximately 450 of these boxes to finish one lamp design.

Do you have paper that you think will get wasted and thrown? Make lampshades out of it. Designer Anja from Netherlands has used recyclable paper and turned it into exquisite and beautiful lampshade design that gives a room its signature looks. This is a lampshade unlike any that you would have ever seen before. There is a blend of paper and dried flowers used in the design and that is what gives this lamp its white and yellowish texture. This is an excellent example of recycled art form.

Artist Aurora Robson has been an expert creator of recycled artwork. Her art forms require the use of discarded water bottles made of plastic and any other junk including anything in mail to create the marvelous art forms. Her designs are surreal, artistic and remarkably detailed in their form. The artist describes her artwork as a reminder for people to become more vigilant and concentrate on the need to ensure that the pollution is reduced. Her belief is that it is an individual effort that would ultimately yield results.

Vinyl Records have been used in different varieties to create artwork that is exquisite, stylish and beautiful. Artists Andrew Hyde and Matthew Wettergreen have started a company called Record Monsters that specializes in creating 3-D models out of old and discarded vinyl records. These designs also are produced in form of puzzles that the users have to assemble to create the complete design. The company conceptualizes the designs that are to be created, executes these designs and in the end creates models that are ready to be shipped.