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- Marc van der Heijden: Building a Circular Future with Local Waste and Global VisionFor Marc van der Heijden, waste isn’t the end of a product’s life—it’s the beginning of a new design story. As founder of the…
- 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…
- Building Blocks Made of Recycled PlasticByFusion, a start up company founded by New Zealand based engineer and inventor Peter Lewis, sees building potential where other see trash. The company…
- Plastic scraps become cladding innovationA recently completed building in the Netherlands is clad with exterior panels made entirely from waste plastic. Known as Gamplanken, this new cladding material…
- Electric Waste Collection Vehicle Demonstrates Circular ManufacturingMercedes-Benz Trucks has introduced the reECONIC, a battery-electric waste collection concept vehicle developed with 32 partners to demonstrate how circular materials can be integrated…
- Nailed: Transforming Beauty Industry Waste into New Design MaterialNailed is a material innovation project by designer and researcher Genevieve Carr (MA Material Futures, Central Saint Martins). It reimagines nail salon waste as…
- From Waste Stream to Resource: Giving Horticultural Film a Second LifeDuring crop rotation in the horticultural sector, large amounts of plastic film are removed each year. This material, mainly strip film and walkway film,…
- Seashell-Inspired Design Makes Recycled Plastics Stronger and More ReliableResearchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a bio-inspired way to turn unreliable recycled plastics into high-performance materials. The method takes cues…
- Barbie dolls and Lego bricks made of recycled plasticMattel, the mother company of Barbie, unveiled a collection called Barbie Loves the Ocean, consisting of dolls made of 90 per cent recycled plastic,…
- Façade cladding made of 100 per cent recycled plasticSaid to be the first 100 per cent recycled cladding material, the Pretty Plastic shingles by the Dutch studios Overtreders W and Bureau SLA…
- Print your city: 3D printing public space with plastic wasteThe throwaway lifestyle of contemporary cities has exponentially increased the production of plastic waste, but what to do with it? With their project Print…
- Infimer: composite thermoplastic material produced from unsorted wasteA lot of waste is, unfortunately, not recycled. Part of the reason why this does not happen is because sorting the types of waste…
- Eco Purge: Biodegradable Plastic Designed To Break Down MicroplasticsMany biodegradable plastics aim to reduce future plastic waste. Eco Purge, developed by Irish innovator Arya Satheesh, takes this idea a step further. The…
- Living Plastic That Self-Destructs On Command Within DaysA new type of “living plastic” could change how designers approach short-life products such as packaging, wearables and temporary components. Researchers have developed a…
- Coffee Waste Transformed into Sustainable Ink for PackagingA Finnish collaboration has pioneered a new material innovation that could transform the packaging industry. Natural Indigo Finland, Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK),…
- Transforming Textile Waste into Acoustic SolutionsA new range of acoustic panels by Sze Tjin Yek made from post-consumer textile waste provides opportunities for architects, interior designers, and product designers…
- 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…
- Sunglasses made from ocean plastic to support clean wavesClean Waves, a creative fundraising platform aimed at boosting the use of eco-innovative material in fashion and industrial design, launches a series of 3…
- Turning Food Waste into Design ObjectsDeveloped as part of the MIT Solve initiative, the FOODres.AI Printer is the result of a collaboration between designers Yiqing Wang and Biru Cao.…
- Eco CP3 Pallet Demonstrates Potential of Recycled PlasticsWaste-to-product company Renewi and plastic pallet manufacturer Cabka have developed the Eco CP3 pallet, made entirely from 100% recycled polyethylene (PE). The project demonstrates…
- Turning Waste into Sustainable Biomaterials: A Breakthrough for Architecture and Product DesignA Dutch research consortium led by TU Delft has launched an ambitious project to transform low-grade organic waste into durable, high-performance biomaterials. With a…
- Seashell-Inspired Bioplastic: USC Researchers Create Sustainable Plastic AlternativeResearchers at the University of Southern California (USC) Viterbi School of Engineering have developed a biocompatible and biodegradable alternative to conventional plastic by incorporating…
- Building houses of 100% recycled plasticNorwegian start-up Othalo developed technology to produce building elements made from 100% recycled plastic and teamed up with UN Habitat to build millions of…
- An open source e-skateboard made of recycled plasticPortugal-based designer João Leão designed an open-source e-skateboard made of recycled plastic as a response to the plastic waste problem and hectic commuting in…
