OK, I'm not going to say that this is going to be easy but I just saw the coolest waste baskets for sale in Paris for 99euros.  NO I did not buy a 99 euro waste basket but I can't wait to find some used tires to make one of my own.

 Tire treads were cut to about 3 inch withs all the way around the tire.  They were then woven togther to make  basically a rubber basket.

 Like I said, "This isn't going to be easy, especially since I presume any tire I find may be steel belted and may be a beast to cut through but I'm going to try."  I'll use tin snips to cut up my first tire and of course I'll be wearing gloves so my hands aren't bleeding by the end of the day.

 OK, there are greener things we could all do like buy energy star appliances but that presumes a person has the coins too purchase energy star appliances which I have noticed are roughly double the price of non energy star appliances.  What a racket that is!

 Meanwhile, write your congressperson to make energy star appliances the cheapo ones at your local big box store and the energy hogs the one with the killer price tag.