Made by Destruction

Photocopiers are mined for their copper and recomposed into brass trumpets. Potatoes are shredded down to their starch and reformed into recycled egg cartons. Milk jugs are melted into plastic lumber and constructed into weatherproof park benches.

Recycling visionaries and chemistry wizards work hand in hand getting a second life out fridges giving a second chance to people in need. Dead batteries are being brought back to life to energize the world in a whole new way.

Inside a plastic bottle is an ultra-modern chair. Instead of rolling into oblivion, retired rubber tires roll into flowerpots. It's the perfect way to listen to Heavy Metal - a piece of steel bridge is resurrected into a turntable.

X-Ray film is mined and refined into gleaming pure silver coins. The last of the heart pine beams are being reclaimed from ruins and crafted into speaker cabinets. Carbon fiber bikes hit the road; recycled as Formula Lite race cars.

A new way to be immortalized rises out of the ashes when a departed loved one is transformed into a shimmering diamond. Skateboards jump the landfill and hit the wall as a mash up of cool tiles.

Miles of unwanted wire are mined and refined into a lustrous bronze trophy. Decommissioned sails are collected, cut and crafted into distinctive tote bags. Joists and floorboards harvested for their old growth timber and repurposed into hand made guitars.

Expired rail tracks are processed into sheets and finally a luxury SUV, discarded laundry detergent containers are re-manufactured into parking pads, and a blacksmith crafts a vehicle spring into a replica 16th-century sword.

Aluminum ladders are turned into an oil tanker; cardboard boxes are shredded and compressed into fire logs; maple skateboard decks are pressed, laminated and shaped into an electric guitar body.

Beer bottles are ground into eco-smart concrete and cast in a wooden form to create a fireplace mantle; bike tire inner tubes are sewn into rubber panels to craft a weather-proof messenger bag; denim jeans are shredded to produce home insulation.

Ironing boards are melted down to be assembled into an innovative medical stretcher; fluorescent light bulbs are pulverized and blended with concrete to create an outdoor fountain; hockey sticks are turned into a coffee table.

Day-old bread becomes an ingredient in an award-winning beer; propane tanks are turned into guitar strings; bug-infested ash trees become lightweight canoes.

Melting down confiscated guns into cufflinks; worn-out ski boots get reborn as a flute; wheelchairs become stainless steel beer kegs.