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- Lighting the Way: Lampshades from Coastal Plastic WasteModern lampshades made from recycled coastal plastic represent a practical application of waste materials in design. Developed through a waste clean-up initiative in Java,…
- How a Dutch Factory is Turning Mixed Plastic Waste into Sustainable Panels and BoardsIn a significant step toward circularity and material innovation, Dutch scale-up Uppact is going to build a cutting-edge recycling facility in Delfzijl, the Netherlands.…
- A hoodie made of recycled cotton textile wasteEvrnu, an advanced material innovation company developed a fibre made from cotton textile waste, which they used to make an oversized hoodie. Evrnu’s technology,…
- Food Waste PigmentWith her graduation project, The Colour of Waste, Sara van Laerhoven wanted to go back to basics and show how special and beautiful colour can be and that it can be natural. By using material research, she found a way to make a natural alternative to synthetic inks to use in graphic workshops. This alternative is made from food waste. In this case from coffee grounds, avocado seeds, red cabbages and orange peels.
- Waste as a wonderlandThe Dutch initiative Wonder Wasteland collects denim, candle and polypropylene waste, which young makers and designers use to create new products. The Amsterdam-based ‘community…
- Clean Air City Ceramics – waste glazesFrom 2017 SCJ started looking into the possibilities of integrating waste materials in the glaze recipes, besides the already known custom of reusing leftover material from the production process. The glaze of Clean Air City Ceramics is composed with captured particulate matter from industrial working environments.
- Linen rugs dyed with botanical and metal wasteAs part of her ongoing project ‘Ignorance is Bliss’, designer Agne Kucerenkaite developed a rug collection made of linen and dyed with upcycled textile…
- Paint made from waste concrete powder sequesters CO2London and Seoul based designer Kukbong Kim developed a paint called Celour made from waste concrete powder, leftover from recycling concrete, which actively captures…
- Interior objects made of food and agricultural wasteBio-tech start-up Ottan develops, designs and produces bio-composite materials by up-cycling food and agricultural waste. The materials can be used to make cladding, furniture,…
- Turning waste concrete into 3D printed public furnitureA project by Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK, along with partners across Europe, uses crushed waste concrete from demolished buildings to create 3D…
- Best of 2019: Affordable prosthetics made from recycled plastic wasteOriginally published on 11 January The initiative Project Circleg aims to fight the world’s plastic pollution as well as help people in need of…
- Asphalt made with recycled tire wasteUK construction materials company Tarmac developed a new rubberised asphalt using recycled waste tires. Each year, 40 million waste tires become available in the…
- Speakers made from non-recyclable wasteBrighton-based design studio Gomi created a portable speaker made from flexible plastic that is normally not recyclable by local councils in the UK. Annually,…
- Polymer made from industrial waste could help clean up oil spillsAn international team of researchers at the Flinders University in Australia developed a new polymer made from waste cooking oil and sulphur, a by-product…
- 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…
- The Beautiful Furniture Designs that Generate ZERO WasteHATTERN is an upcycling design studio based in South Korea. With the ZERO PER PROJECT, they aim to show that it is possible to…
- ‘Temple Of Trash’ Turns Waste Streams Into Circular ArchitectureA new office and visitor centre for waste-processing company Omrin demonstrates how biobased, reused and recycled materials can form the basis of a high-quality…
- Hemp Waste Shows Promise For Lower-Carbon Bioplastic FilmsResearchers in South Korea have tested biocomposite films made with hemp hurd, the woody inner part of the hemp stem. This part of the…
- X Bench: 3D Printed Seating From Recycled Plastic WasteThe X Bench by Rotterdam-based studio The New Raw shows how recycled plastic and digital fabrication can shape durable, expressive furniture. This two-person rocking…
- No-Waste® FloorThe No-Waste® Floor was originally developed for the circular “Circl” pavilion of ABN AMRO in Amsterdam. The material composition is based on post-consumer wood, including reclaimed window frames, doors, staircases and former floorboards. Additional reclaimed sources, such as timber from demolished buildings or municipal recycling centres, may also be incorporated, depending on availability.
- 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,…
- Neo-Textura: Transforming Textile Waste into Circular Interior SystemsThe fashion industry produces more than 92 million tonnes of textile waste each year, most of which ends up in landfill. At the same…
- Bee2C: A Circular Beehive from Mycelium and Recycled Coffee WasteThe Bee2C project demonstrates how organic waste can be transformed into a structural, functional, and ecological material solution. By cultivating mycelium on a substrate…
- Daon: Giving Waste Pottery a Second LifeA design team from Kyung Hee University’s Living Product Design class in Seoul, consisting of Jungeun Kim, Chaeyeon Yoo, and Mingi Cho, has created…
