Eco-ware with an industrial edge
It’s no longer enough for consumer goods to be useful or attractive; they also have to show a little moral fiber. Which helps explain how items made out of greasy old bike chains ended up as potential holiday gifts. Just the thing for a certain type of giftee.
I was so busy thinking about maybe taking up biking that I never bothered to ask about the larger problem of spent pedals and chains. “Every year, tons of discarded bicycle parts are collected from bike shops all over the United States and shipped to Oregon, where a team of artists tinkers with them until new products are born,” says a spokeswoman for Bambeco, an "eco style" company in West Virginia that sells the resulting bike-chain bottle openers, picture frames, card holders, and bowls ($10 to $81). Think of these well-traveled items not only as helpful housewares but also as handy reminders: Everything we consume eventually comes back to haunt us.
Posted by Deborah Baldwin | Categories: Green Home, Wacky Products | Permalink
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