Tracy Cordingley and Jamie Billing, product design professors at the UK's Nottingham Trent University, have launched a website that's something like Instructables for the recycling-minded. Called Co-oproduct.org, the site is a "web portal that shows you how to creatively ReUse your Household Packaging and Everyday Waste Materials to make new desirable objects."
The site is broken down into categories—Metal, Plastics, Glass, et cetera—though at press time, not every material had an attendant product you could make with it; presumably the community-minded site's offerings will grow over time as more people submit projects. But thus far there are tutorials such as how to make drinking glasses out of beer bottles, tables out of bicycle wheels, stool tops out of shredded paper and resin, and what looks to be about two dozen others. Below is a lamp made from plastic spoons.
The quality of photographs on the site is quite poor, another area they will need to address if they hope to draw mass attention. But the central idea of the website is sound and we hope it catches on.
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Hello.
We have just updated co-oproduct.org with an all new site (launch Jan, 2015) which has taken us over 2 years to bring to life (we're a small team). Please take a look.
We have introduced many new areas (for example, RETHINK, REMAKE, RESKILL) and we're continuing to work very hard, populating these new areas with the best examples of Open, Make-It-Yourself, Reuse & Longerlife Design. We are hoping that you will all help us by sharing your best work in this field and that of others that you think should be here. Please use the 'SUBMIT' area of the website to make us aware of this.