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Coffee leviathan Starbucks wants you to kick your morning habit -- no, not your coffee. God, they're not monsters. They just want to see you ditch the disposal cups that so many of us use and then toss into a garbage can -- or, yes, at a particularly annoying co-worker before our second cup. The retailer is banking that they can get more customers using reusable tumblers for their morning joe by crashing the price point, introducing a new reusable coffee cup in their stores in North America that will cost just one dollar.

While the simple act of recycling itself must have been pretty geeky when Earth Day first started 40 years ago, nowadays it's become so common place that we hardly think about it. So, if you want to earn some geek street cred while saving the earth, you've got to think bigger, better, and evidently, artier. To that end, we're celebrating Earth Day by posting some of the coolest art made out of trash this side of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Read on to see them all.