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- Furniture made from waste clothes and other post-consumer materialsAs our trash piles grow, reclaiming and recycling materials becomes increasingly important. Circular consumer brand Pentatonic has applied its technologies to address multiple consumer…
- Seaweed and Algae Waste Become Bespoke Interior Textiles in CopenhagenNatural Material Studio has created bespoke bio-textile installations for the renovated Sticks’n’Sushi restaurant in Lyngby, north of Copenhagen. The project shows how organic waste…
- Recycled Paving Blocks Made From Mollusk Shells And Mining WasteResearchers at the University of Córdoba have developed a paving block made entirely from industrial waste. The innovation replaces both natural aggregates and conventional…
- Lithuanian Researchers Turn Textile Waste into High-Strength CementResearchers at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) in Lithuania have developed a new way to turn textile waste into both alternative fuel and high-performance…
- Transforming Bali’s River Waste into Design ObjectsDesigner and material researcher Sara Howard, together with Kevala Ceramics, has launched two projects that turn Bali’s river waste into sustainable design objects. With…
- Innovative System for Capturing Plastic Waste in RiversThe Italian company River Cleaning has developed an ingenious system designed to remove plastic waste from rivers. The system consists of a series of…
- Products made from waste from the HimalayasDutch design studio Super Local, in collaboration with Nepalese non-profit Sagarmatha Next, designed products made from plastic waste found in the Himalayas, transported by…
- Compostable bioplastic made of fish wasteMarinaTex, a bioplastic material made of fish waste designed by graduate student Lucy Hughes of the University of Sussex, has won the UK James…
- A sustainable green roof made from sewage wasteWhen you hear sewage waste, green roofs is probably not the first thing you think about. Yet it seem that compressed non-recyclable sewage waste,…
- Hot Wire Extensions: reusing waste nylon powder by Studio IlioIn the past few years, 3D printing has become incredibly popular and affordable. 3D printing is seen as a sustainable method because it leaves…
- The Obsidian Project: mirrors made with recycled chemical wasteChemical waste is a big threat to our world. It has to be disposed of properly, but what can you do with it? Studio Drift, consisting…
- Coffee Flour: Turning Waste Into A New SuperfoodThe coffee industry produces substantial amounts of waste each year. One of these waste product is coffee cherry pulp, a byproduct of green coffee…
- MIT Recycling System Turns Mixed Space Waste Into Manufacturing FeedstockNASA has awarded first prize in Phase 2 of its LunaRecycle Challenge to a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The winning…
- Buganbag Transforms Bougainvillea Waste Into Biobased LeatherBuganbag is a handbag made with an experimental biobased leather from bougainvillea flowers. Industrial design students Daniel Enrique Terán Quintero and Cristian Enrique Julio…
- Turning Rubber Waste Into Carbon-Capturing MaterialsResearchers at the University of St Andrews have developed two new methods to recycle nitrile butadiene rubber (NBR). This material is widely used in…
- CORNCRETL: Corn Waste And Lime Composite For Robotic 3D Printed ConstructionMexican design practice MANUFACTURA has developed CORNCRETL, a bio-based construction material made from corn residues, recycled nejayote and lime-based aggregates. The team designed the…
- Loop Lab: Turning Campus Waste into Creative ResourcesAt the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), a new pilot project called Loop Lab is rethinking how designers use materials. Supported by a…
- Transforming Asbestos Waste into Sustainable Resources for Electric Vehicle BatteriesExterra Carbon Solutions, a Canadian cleantech company, has received a grant of CA$600,000 from Quebec’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Forests to advance a…
- Recycled Plastic Packaging Waste Developed into 3D Printing FilamentResearchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials IFAM and Hochschule Bremen – City University of Applied Sciences have developed a…
- Turning Waste into Colour: Virginia Tech’s Toolkit Transforms Compost into PaintA team of industrial design researchers at Virginia Tech has developed an innovative toolkit that transforms school food waste—primarily fruit and vegetable scraps—into natural…
- Sustainable Furniture from Coffee WasteKorean designer Chanhyeok Kim has developed a furniture series called Unsleepy that utilises coffee waste as a raw material. By combining used coffee grounds…
- Interior panels made with paper wasteFRONT Materials (formerly Stonecycling) partnered with ALTED Materials to launch paper-based panels, upcycling 722 kg of landfill waste with every 100m2 of interior wall…
- Objects made from production waste of glass beadsCzech designer Sára Matysová used the waste material of the production of Preciosa’s glass beads. Czech glass and bead manufacturer Preciosa uses glass sand…
- Storefront made of recycled bricks upcycles 1,600 kg of wasteDutch company StoneCycling creates bricks from construction waste. With their latest project, the storefront and fitting rooms of a store of fashion brand COS…
