Sentence examples for recycled shipping from inspiring English sources

Still, the makeshift classrooms, in a sweltering warehouse filled with the stink from the tip and plagued by rats are less than ideal, so the charity is working on an alternative: a one-million dollar school made entirely from recycled shipping containers.

For the Bohen Foundation, which is housed in a former printing plant in the Meatpacking District, LOT-EK turned eight recycled shipping containers into discrete modules that function as offices, meeting rooms or video rooms and which move on tracks set into the concrete floor.

It also works with vendors to use recycled shipping materials.

Artisanal food and crafts sold out of recycled shipping containers at the Dekalb Market.

It will meet green building standards, with a solar roof and wood from recycled shipping containers.

There's also a bench, Donald Judd-style, made of recycled shipping pallets.

Some items retain functionality with missing buttons and lost pieces, whereas many others wind up in landfills -- or, in a feat of wonderful irony, recycled and shipped back to China to be turned into more short-term consumer goods.

The idea came from eBay's sustainability group, led by Annie Lescroart, which was behind company initiatives to get sellers to recycle their old mobile phones and to reuse shipping boxes.

Even the cardboard boxes in which TerraCycle is shipped are recycled or factory seconds.

If this takes off it means we can recycle locally, rather than shipping it round the world where they turn it into something else and then ship it back again.

The sand can be recycled, reducing the cost of shipping the dump's contents to landfills in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia.