This Recycled Cardboard Toy Fort brings joy to children of all ages. Due to its construction from cardboard, the fort can be easily folded away when not in use, it also allows it to be decorated however a child wishes for use.

The Recycled Cardboard Toy Fort helps to provide children with a launchpad for their imagination. The fort is easy to construct from the recycled cardboard pieces and is also quickly dismantled when play is over ready for storage. The cardboard used for the fort is at least 80% recycled material, and the fort can be recycled when no longer wanted (depending on decoration). The fort can be decorated easily as cardboard is great for painting on or sticking items onto, this helps the child become more involved with the fort, creating the toy they desire.

The Recycled Cardboard Toy Fort has a classic castle fort design, with 4 turret towers and 4 walls. The fort measures 70 cm x 70 cm x 35 cm (27.56 in x 27.56 in x 13.78 in) when constructed, and only 69.5 cm x 36 cm x 4.4 cm (27.36 in x 14.17 in x 1.73 in) when flattened for storage.  The fort is suitable for children from the time they are stable on their feet. This Recycled Cardboard Toy Fort is a great toy to help inspire a child’s imagination. Due to it being constructed from recycled cardboard, the fort toy is a green alternative to the many plastic toys on the market and unlike many of them it can be easily folded up and put away when not in use.

The Recycled Cardboard Toy Fort is yours for just £19.95 plus delivery.

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The Eco-cartridge is a concept for an ink cartridge that is made from recycled cardboard. The cartridge would save on packaging and would use a considerable amount less plastic to help the product decompose quickly.

The Eco-cartridge concept has been designed by Kevin Cheng to replace current Epson 79 printer cartridges. Each Eco-cartridge is made from one piece of recycled cardboard, the inside of the cartridge is lined with a biodegradable laminate to allow it to hold the ink without any leakage. The cardboard would need a little glue to form the cartridge, and the only additions to this would be the plastic port to connect to the printer and the cartridge chip.

The form of the box helps to reduce on packaging, unlike plastic cartridges there would be no need for any further boxing around the cartridge, the delicate parts have a protective cardboard covering which is simply torn off to allow you to place the cartridge into your printer. This lessens the packaging of a cartridge greatly, it also helps to reduce down the size of the cartridges for shipment helping to reduce the amount of transportation required to deliver them to the shops.

The Eco-cartridge concept would provide a great alternative to the overly wrapped plastic cartridges generally available for use. By using recycled cardboard and using the smallest amount of material as possible the cartridge would make a more sustainable option for today’s world.

Source: Kevin Cheng

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The Flexy reminds you of the simple joy cardboard can bring.  Shaped and pieced together from cardboard, it is designed to work like the famous metal slinky.

Made out of recycled materials this biodegradable toy is said to do all that its metal counterpart can, but with the obvious benefit of decomposing when everyone has finally had enough.  The Flexy will then happily ‘walk’ down your stairs (though wont make that jingle jangle slinky does) and comes with instructions to make it move in many different ways from flinging to a rippling rainbow, it can even be moved into place to create many different sculptures.

The Flexy is not quite as compact as its metal counterpart measuring  11.5cm x 10cm x 7.5cm (4.5in x 4in x 3in) closed up and 25.5cm x 10cm x 7.5cm (10in x 4in x 3in) opened out fully, though it should hopefully not tangle up like a metal spring likes to do.  Though it claims to do all its metal counterpart can do I am not sure how well it could be used in science classrooms to show easily the difference between light waves and sound waves, but it is certainly a more environmentally friendly way of laughing at something falling down the stairs!

Source: Craziest Gadgets

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Now I love popping bubble-wrap, but I must say that I question how recyclable it is. But it is really cheap and easy to get hold of, and bubble wrap perfectly protects the majority of items you post or pack. A group of designers, Wonjae Lee, Sunkyu Kim & Sangjun Hahn, have come up with Paper Wrap, which uses a pre-cut cardboard design to emulate bubble wrap without the plastic.

The design uses a pre-cut symmetrical pattern that folds out to form a flexible and protective layer. The effect is a layer of pyramid shapes on the surface of the cardboard. If the cardboard is made from recycled sources, then the solution is very eco-friendly.

However, I can imagine that in practice the “sticky out bits” would flatten, making the Paper Wrap cardboard no different to a flat sheet of cardboard. Shredded cardboard would provide a great protective layer as an alternative to plastic. I like the attempt at an alternative style of packaging, but I think that this implementation of packaging would be ineffective.

Source: YankoDesign

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