Dell CEO Michael Dell just introduced a never-seen-before Dell eco PC with a bamboo casing at the Fortune Green conference.Dell claims the environment friendly computer is 81 percent smaller than a standard desktop, and uses 70 percent less power.Not green enough for you? Well, it is also utilizes recycled materials such as old bottles, milk jugs and detergent cases in shipping.The still un-named PC is set to be released out later this year at an estimated $500 to $700 price tag. Via: earth2tech

A couple of top designers have teamed up to launch Recycle Now Week to promote their passions for fashion and raising environmental awareness. They designed dresses out of trash, recycling old packaging, cans, newspapers and more, proving waste can be made in to striking fashion with the right touch. Even a tiered ball gown of recycled denim looks good.

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From newspapers to your wardrobe! Do you picture yourself wearing a mapbelt made of recycled newpapers or carrying a hip trendy newspaper bag? This one of a kind products were thought up and designed by four brilliant Swiss entrepreneurs. If you are in need of something customizable, colorful or black and white, waterproof and Swiss made, take a quick glance at their website! Choose a specific part of a newspaper and the language that you would like your bag or belt made of, select the model that makes your heart beat, wait a few weeks until delivery, and enjoy. It doesn’t taste as good as the Swiss chocolate but it will still give you a taste of being eco-friendly while trendy!

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How cool is this- a courier bag made of a real gentleman’s business suit. 40x60cm and complete with a very hard wearing recycled seatbelt as the shoulder strap, for a mere 180 bucks AUS, you probably could make this at home for a fraction of the price- well your price, I’m not sure your father would appreciate you recycling his number 5 pinstripe 2 button for the cause..

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Christopher Griffith’s third book, “Blown,” spins roadside rubber into art. After six years of hunting down and photographing shredded tires left as rubbish on the highways of the United States, the graphic volume has been released. The images show the violent destructiveness that results when a tire explodes slicing and tearing it to bits, yet the photos look oddly fern-like to me. “Blown” was launched November 21, 2008 and is available from Auditorium Editions as a hardcover linen edition.

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Earthworm Composting: Worm composting is the decomposition by a type of earthworm called  RED WIGGLER Eisenia fetida which eats your organic raw food waste and leaves rich compost and a liquid fertiliser in return. Worm Castings Worm castings are the richest form of natural fertiliser known to man. It promotes ahigher than average growth in plants (ideal to start seedlings, when mixed withpotting mix or as a top-dressing around plants).