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An inquiry into what objects can be reused and how?
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key questions

what are the easier objects which can be reused by adults and children? what other strange objects can be reused? what items can factories reuse and how? how can children reuse daily life objects? what objects can be reused on a fun way?

=Alberto= = = = = = SYNTHESIS = = = ===**There are almost infinite ways to reuse things, you can almost reuse whatever you want on anyway you can imagine. Reusing is open to all your ideas, and the question of what objects can be reused is answerd by you, and your imagination. There are not limited objects, or a list of what objects can be reused, you can even invent your own and fun ways for reusing any item you want. Your ideas are the answer for this question, and, because there are plenty of reusable objects, companies, children, adults, and you, have their own way and style of what and how to reuse, that means everyone will have a different answer towards this question. So this is not a question for us, or a question in which we can answer completely right, the question is for you, and the answer is from everyone. But, what we defenetly learned is that there are more than enough objects and ways to reuse, and if you want to get some ideas all the links we looked at, will be very useful and educative.****So now you know that you are not limited, or have a specific and very certain ammount of ways of how and when to apply reusing, but that the limitation is on you. So you know the answer more than us, because, even though we already know a lot of reusable things and ways to reuse them, as we said the answer depends on you and your imagination, so tell us, what objects can be reused and how?**=== = INVESTIGATION =

**Nicolas 12/06/11**


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 * I find a fashion desinger named Nancy Judd, that make cloth out of reusable materials. look it´s is like a cloth make out from things you have, it is an inspiration for all of those that what to be creative but be ecological. look this dreses she make. **

**The “Recycled Cowgirl” that is made from phone books,**



“Fan Mail Dress” made from junk mail,



and the “Pop Can Couture,” made from pop cans!




 * Nicolas Cortes 12/06/11 **

I find a Ecodesigner name [|Mario Caicedo Langer] from Bogotá, Colombia he makes animal toys, props and accessories from trash, ordinary day-to-day objects, computer parts and other reused elements. It´s incredible how he reuse the daily life objects, I think you have never thinked thus objects can be reuse to make reusable animals.

**the attack of the evil scorpions**

the electronic firefly



the shocking dog

MOUSER 2.0 Toy made of plastic pieces.



=**Alberto**=

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 * On this very good video we learned that there is a German special technique with bottles, and that it can be very useful for constructions. But not only on this ones, there are houses in which the walls are made also with some bottles, what is cheaper and also makes a good and environmentally friendly structure. Then, another reason for why people reuse is because on constructions it is very useful, better for nature, and it can even be cheaper, beneficing the world and YOU. So when you construct something, why don´t using bottles? use this way which is much better and benefits more everyone. **

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 * We learned that reusing can work with many things, even those kind of items you just throw to the rubbish without thinking twice if it can be reused or not. Just how the video said, reusing works, or just need: commitment to recycle and creativity, is nothing more than using an item more than once. It can be fun, easy, and you save money, and there are lots of ways to apply it, this one is one of u million which you can do or INVENT. you can come with your own crazy ideas, it works how you want, need, or wish, with the only rule using an item you already used.**

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 * With this page we also learned a lot, and there was a phrase which is true and is powerful too, it was like this "Remember, one man's trash is another man's treasure". But apart from that we also learned even MORE things which can be reused, how and when, seeing new types of reusing strategies, and showing how each type of reusing style applied on each material or item works. And, we discovered more things, which were very useful, because this page also gave links to games and recycling and reusing pages, in which kids can learn in a fun way, and on some others see also how can reusing work. **
 * juan david Torres 07/06/11 **

I found a designer who is called Ruben Iglesias, that have a project named retrain, and designed a sofa away that presented at the Salone Satellite 2011 of Milan, his work has triple value as an artistic work, such as functional work , and as the work required based on reuse of materials. The base is made by re-using a wooden pallet, the structure is made of braided paper, and also contains reused paper to fill the inside.

juan david torres 07/06/11 [] I found a page in which volunteers help poor families build a house with bottles, the promoter of the project is called Ingrid Vaca Diez housing project called socialecocasas bottles , has built the only bottles you long housing and other reusablematerials for families living in extreme poverty in Bolivia in their work fills the bottleswith sand.
 * [[image:http://www.basurillas.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/sofa_away_1b_w.jpg width="270" height="177" caption="Sofá Away hecho con papel por Rubcn - Retrain"]] ||
 * Sofá Away hecho con papel por Rubcn - Retrain ||



Juan David Torres 06/06/11 [] I found a painter who lives in Rotterdam, Germany, That use eggcartons as canvases for his paintings. With this technique gets dimensional works that allow different perceptions according to the angle of the observation of the painting, and it seems that the faces come to life in its various expressions.

This technique has been called eggcubism. Enno de Kronn


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 * On this page we learned many new things, in terms of new objects which you can easily reuse for the same, or a different use. There was a list of 50 things which can be reused, but some of them are not appropriate for here. This 22 are the ones that we found which people here can reuse, and we also discovered that some of those things can be really fun for children and others can be very useful for adults saving some of their money. This are the 22 things we got out of that page, which we plan putting on our sculpture, but really** **Ideas for reusing are never finished.**




 * 1. Reuse your blankets and towels. You can donate them or use them to give animals a soft, warm place to sit and sleep.**
 * 2. Reuse seeds from fruit and vegetables, and try to grow them!**
 * 3. Reuse plastic bags, instead of each time using a new one, use the same one!**
 * 4. Cut used pieces of paper into scrap pieces of paper .**
 * 5. Reuse pens and art supplies by donating them to local schools, or if they are ink pens refil them.**
 * 6. Reuse your used margarine and butter tubs by cleaning them and keeping them for leftovers and soap.**
 * 7. Reuse old clothing by giving or donating it to charity.**
 * 8. Reuse the pillow covers for rags.**
 * 9. Reuse your old toilet paper rolls, for art or what you want.**
 * 10. Never throw away an old book, donate it to a library or to a recycling factory, or a school! They can reuse it.**
 * 11. Reuse old curtains for cleaning your car.**
 * 12. Reuse old glass containers with lids and save them for leftovers, or, make your own jam or jelly. glass containers would be great for storing rice, pasta, sugar and flour.**
 * 13. Make a piece of artwork with metal cans.**
 * 14. Reuse your old CDs and DVDs for decorations.**
 * 15. Reuse your old toothbrush and use it to clean hard to reach areas.**
 * 16. Reuse popsicle sticks with ingenius, creative ideas.**
 * 17. Reuse old spray bottles by filling them with water to spray plants.**
 * 18. If you receive a gift in a gift bag, save it for another occasion and reuse that bag!**
 * 19. Reuse plastic bottles by refiling them with water instead of buying a new one.**
 * 20.Reuse glass bottles, there are companies which recollect them.**
 * 21.Reuse egg cartons for putting eggs again on them.**
 * 22. Reuse paper bags, make mopets or what you want.**

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 * On this page there are some activities which teach how to reuse in some creative, and fun way, it is making crafts. On the video is an example of how to reuse materials like cans, for making a very creative activity that kids will surely enjoy. It is another example of how does reusing works, because it can be for many others, like for house objects, for other kids, using the item again for the same use, for art, decoration, and as this one shows us, for crafts. We learned that now instead of buying new expensive materials, we have useful things on our houses, and next time for making an artwork, put in action this reusing idea, which just showed another example of how reusing works.**

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 * In our activity with smaller children we discovered that some of them knew some objects which can be reused, but most, did not even knew what reusing was. The ones that knew, just said very few, only very easy items. Some of the ones they said they knew were: papers by using them on the other side or making paper animals and airplanes. Plastic bottles by refilling them or making an art work with them, and they also said toilet paper rolls by drawing and playing with them. They said they knew how to reuse plastic bags and cloth too, using again the plastic bags, and for the cloth they said to donate it or giving it to your brother and sister. So smaller children have an idea of what to reuse and how, but obviously they need to learn more, and that is what we did, now they know much more objects and ways, and the ones who did not knew, now know a lot.**

= **Alberto** =

**THIS DIDN´T RESULTED BUT WE STILL CAN INVESTIGATE AND FIND OUT MORE**

For answering this we will investigate more, and we are planning to have an interview with Juangi (the ecology teacher), and a Postobon worker,to see if their company reuses, what and how. We had already started and if you want to see what you can reuse you can see the things you can reuse page. We are trying to contact Juangi and we are looking forward to put more reusable things on our page.

<span style="display: inline !important; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">We had already contacted Juangi, and we are planning making a trip to 3 places next week, maybe on Tuesday. The first place is a park made all from BOTTLES! we want to see how they reuse them, and they can be useful in terms of new information. The second place we are visiting is another park, but this one instead is made from house materials, there where some abandoned houses and made a park with them, we want too see what kind of materials they used and come up with new ideas. And the third place is a factory where they melt bottles and make new ones, they are recycling, but at least they give used bottles a new use, reusing.We will see when do we make the trip, and what useful information we came up with.

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<span style="color: #ff0000; display: inline !important; font-family: arial; font-size: 24px; line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">**PRIOR KNOWLEDGE** ===**We know that many things can be reused, and it just depends on your imagination. The objects that we know they can be reused are plastic bottles, glass bottles, papers, plastic bags, egg cartons and carton boxes. But there can be in finite things and ways to reuse we have not discovered yet, but we all need to do. We know that for arts you can reuse what you want, and that what this depends on is just your imagination, if you let it fly, you will come up almost with infinite and fun ways to reuse. So you manage this answere, and you can notice the answers will change on every person, because it depends on YOU. So the question is for you, what objects can be reused and how?**===