Double Dolphin Pin

Previously used Mardi Gras costumes, ball gowns, and wires from broken TV sets are transformed into colorful pins such as the double dolphin pin shown here.

Business Card Cases

Circuit boards from TV sets, audio components, phones and computers are made into various products, including the business card cases shown here.

Woven Wire Baskets

Zulu tribes people in Natal, South Africa, weave traditional baskets from untraditional material -- recycled PVC-coated telephone wire. Each basket is a unique piece of art.

Wind Chimes

Recycled glass and copper from curbside, industrial and glass artists' waste are fashioned by hand into decorative home and garden items such as these wind chimes.

Hand Made Cotton Rugs

Rag rugs are made from used cotton cloth. Rugs are all different, even if a pattern is repeated. One rug may incorporate blue fabric from jeans, another blue sheets.

Coffee Table

Old bike parts -- chains, pedals and rims -- are remanufactured into wine racks, bottle openers, bookends, and picture frames. Wheel rims and gears were used for this table.

Antique Reproductions

Antique reproductions of cupboards, benches, and farm tables are made using boards, windows, doors, hinges and square nails from houses that have been torn down.

The Meadow House

This new home from Loken Builders uses recovered or salvaged slate, recycled copper-clad windows, salvaged timbers and beams, recycled maple flooring, recycled paper board, recycled bleacher wood front doors, and recycled glass for insulation.

A Beautiful Remodel

This remodeled home, also by Loken Builders, makes extensive use of salvaged wood. Timbers from an old saw mill were used to create trusses, and reused maple became the highly-polished floor.