Ignorance is Bliss is a continuous design project founded by Agne Kucerenkaite. The research-based project utilises industrial waste and secondary materials and converts them into interior and exterior products of higher value. Ignorance is Bliss is giving a new identity to waste and to the built environment, with empathy for planetary health. The foundations of […]
Atelier LVDW is the material design studio of Laura van de Wijdeven, based in Rotterdam The Netherlands. She researches the future of sustainable and circular materials with a biophilic point of view. Her goal is to enrich interiors by the use of organic waste streams and bio-based matter. Subconsciously connecting its user with nature by […]
BESE designs and sells products that are 100% biodegradable. They provide a temporary kick-start agent, that restores an ecosystem and degrades over time, leaving only a natural system behind. The products are also biobased, using waste streams like potato starch and shells. Started in 2018, the team of BESE-products is based in the Netherlands. The […]
Beyond Leather Materials is the creator and B2B supplier of Leap. The rapidly growing Copenhagen-based start-up has developed a patented process to turn fruit waste into new materials. The company is set out to disrupt the leather industry and move it towards transparency with its passionate team of international professionals.
Cork is a 100% natural raw material with unique technical and aesthetic properties. The use of cork as a building material promotes the sustainability of buildings while contributing to the protection of the cork forests. With cork as the main component of their products, BIOMAT offers a complete range of construction materials for insulating and […]
ChopValue is the world’s first circular economy franchise, designing and manufacturing products using an innovative, high-performance material engineered entirely from recycled chopsticks. Since its founding in 2016, the company has saved over 70 million chopsticks from ending up in the landfill through its circular economy. ChopValue sources, manufactures, and employs within local communities through its […]
DC Bricks is a pioneer in circular masonry. The company advocates for a fundamental shift within the construction industry towards a fully circular built environment, where waste is no longer regarded as an endpoint but as the starting point of a new material lifecycle. Its mission is to accelerate the transition to a circular construction […]
Denimtex represents circular wall finishes made of recycled textiles and biobased binders. Denimtex is best known for ‘’Jeans on the wall’’. Denimtex manufactures waste textiles into high-quality products with unique properties. Their products are insulating, moisture-regulating, fire retardant and sound absorbing. Denimtex wants to leave a better world for future generations by saving waste textiles […]