15 Awesome recycled shipping containers

International Export Packers use shipping containers every working day. Produced in their millions they are incredibly strong, robust, highly secure and affordable. The containers are designed to carry up to 30 tonnes of cargo whilst stacked up to 9 high on stormy, rolling seas. The integral strength, alongside the fact they are mass produced means they can be recycled and converted to a variety  of different uses and can provide solutions to space, storage, housing and other problems. Here are just 15 creative solutions of how to Re-use, Re-new and Re-cycle these incredibly versatile metal boxes. What would you do with a shipping container?  

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