Watch These Recycled Cans Morph Into Furniture
Watch These Recycled Cans Morph Into Furniture. Brazil is ranked as a world leader when it comes to aluminum can recycling, though for its catadores—the independent pickers who collect those cans from city streets—making a living from the work isn't easy. But a project in São Paulo could give them another stream of revenue—by turning some of their collected aluminum cans into sellable merchandise.
There are countless things you can do with leftover aluminum cans. Recycling them is just one (admittedly fantastic) option. Instead of dropping them off at a recycling center in exchange for money, why not keep them, melt them, and make something incredible? This guy melted down his extra cans, poured the metal into a bucket of sand...and the result was awesome.
