We all recycle. (It’s the law, after all.) But most of us tend to keep it pretty simple. Soda cans, newspapers, maybe the occasional fashion castoff.

Few have elevated it to an art form. (Save those who consider a two-foot-tall pile of NY Times back issues serving as a doorstop “art.”) But L.A. artist and designer Tony Meredith has made it his mission (or one of them, anyway) to create beautiful, useful, original items from preexisting ones. We dig the one-of-a-kind Tupperware lamps, made in tribute to the plastic wares on their 50th anniversary. Or check out his Fuchsia bookmarks and notebooks, made from vintage wallpaper with lovely antiquey patterns. Somehow he manages to pull off each and every one of his home accessories with an offbeat yet stunning twist — proving that history can and does repeat itself in a rockin’ way. And whatever you get, you can use it with the smug knowledge that you’re both politically and fashionably correct.

After all, recycling never goes out of style.

Available online at tonymeredith.com.