Reuse Your Television competition: ReNew Magazine
Posted in Seeking by sashashtargot on March 28th, 2011
Send your ideas on how to reuse TVs to ReNew magazine.
As the humble old idiot box is replaced by the flatscreen and Australia prepares to switch to digital, televisions are popping up on nature strips across the country, ready for someone to take them away. Sadly, a lot of these boxes end up in landfill, leaching polluting metals and toxins. Send ReNew magazine your ideas, realistic or completely mad, for reusing old television sets.
Describe in 100 words or less what an old TV can be recycled into for the good of the planet: the main aims are to keep it out of landfill and to be something fun, useful or completely ridiculous. Ideas for what to do with particular parts are welcome too.
Entries close May 1, 2011. Email entries to renew@ata.org.au
Diagrams or photos at high resolution 250 dpi are welcome. Winning entry receives a $200 gift voucher from Enviroshop.
ReNew is published by the Alternative Technology Association, a not-for-profit consumer-based organisation that advocates for renewable energy, sustainable building and water conservation.
Get a converter box, pray you can a decent channel over the air, and realize flat panel televisions are far from being perfected until OLED monitors hit the market.
Until then flat panel televisions are just as replaceable as soon as the next new flat panel television hits the market. Or you can buy the current flat panel televisions and then throw it out down the line when the next generation of flat panels come out.
[...] up in landfill in huge numbers. That's why Austrailian publication ReNew Magazine is holding a reuse your television competition in an attempt to crowd source ideas for useful second lives for our …Read the full story on [...]
[...] in landfill in huge numbers. That’s why Austrailian publication ReNew Magazine is holding a reuse your television competition in an attempt to crowd source ideas for useful second lives for our …Read the full story on [...]
We used to take the insides out and give them to school kids for having puppet shows in them: especially the big ones.
The glass screens can be broken up and made into beautiful (and heavy!) glass vases..and presumably any other glass craftware too.