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- Colour changing plastic makes ‘sell by’ dates unnecessaryLooking, sniffing and carefully tasting are good ways to indicate if food is still edible. However, anyone who has ever had food poisoning knows…
- Pumpkin Peel Waste Forms Active Biodegradable Food PackagingResearchers at Kyushu University in Japan have developed a biodegradable packaging material made partly from discarded pumpkin peel. The composite film could help preserve…
- Redefining Palm Oil: Turning Waste into BioplasticFor decades, palm oil has carried a negative image in Western media. It is often linked to deforestation and environmental harm. Yet in Southeast…
- A 3D printed kinetic installation made of recycled plasticDesign studio Atelier DARN created a kinetic installation made of 3D printed pieces made of recycled plastic. For the 2024 edition of Festival des…
- Bioplastic made of agricultural wasteResearchers at the Swiss university EPFL developed a method to produce high performance plastics from renewable resources, like agricultural waste. The team developed a…
- A floating cathedral made of urban wasteAlong with creative studio D/DOCK and impact innovation agency Max-G, Dutch social enterprise Plastic Whale announced a floating ‘cathedral’, made of urban waste streams.…
- Dutch wool: from waste material to valuable productThe Dutch collective Hollands Wol Collectief (Dutch Wool Collective) aims to process Dutch wool, currently seen as a waste product, locally and use it…
- A car made of flax and recycled ocean plasticStudents from Eindhoven University of Technology presented the design of their sixth car. Called Luca, the vehicle is made of flax and recycled plastic…
- Lamps made of beer and coffee wasteItalian sustainable design practice High Society designed a series of lamp shades made from by-products of beer and coffee production. To make the lights,…
- Turing seafood waste in biodegradable bioplasticFour designers from The Royal College of Art & Imperial College London developed new manufacturing processes to turn seafood waste into biodegradable, recyclable bioplastics.…
- Beetle shell plasticBeetle shells are not the first thing many people think of when talking about material development. But one designer has certainly seen the potential…
- 3D Printed Recycled Plastic Panels Translate Energy Into ArchitectureAectual has created a custom 3D printed wall panel system for energy company E.ON. The design turns the company’s visual identity into a tactile…
- ECHO Chair Uses Recycled Plastics in Large-Scale 3D PrintingZHA has collaborated with Spanish large-scale 3D printing company Nagami on the ECHO Chair, a furniture collection that combines computational design with additive manufacturing.…
- A tumbler made of waste wood thermoplasticKim Jiwoo, a student at design academy Designerdot in South Korea, designed a tumbler made of a thermoplastic derived from wood waste. The material…
- Coffee cups made from waste coffee groundsGerman start-up Kaffeeform designed various coffee cups, including a take-away cup, made from waste coffee grounds. Many of us love a cup of coffee…
- Bioplastic called Wheypack made from cheese wasteIf there is one thing the Dutch, and thus Materia employees, love, it’s cheese. However, in the cheese making process, a byproduct called whey…
- A helmet made of upcycled shell wasteJapanese company Koushi Chemical Industry, in collaboration with the village of Sarufutsu, developed a helmet made with discarded shell from the food industry. Shellfish…
- Products made from tire wasteUK start-up The Tyre Collective teamed up with various designers and artists to explore how tire particles that come off car tires as they…
- A vegan leather alternative made of waste legume podsCalled Leukeather, developed by Nuhayr Zein, the material is an alternative for exotic leathers made from dried Leucaena pods, a by-product of existing agriculture.…
- Turning Unrecyclable Textiles Into Circular Chemical Building BlocksAcross Europe, more than 70% of textile waste still ends up in incineration or landfill. This is not because the material lacks value, but…
- Notjustuseless project turns recycled plastic straws into fabricNOTJUSTUSELESS, a project by Hungarian designer Katalin Huszár, is an experimental eco-design initiative to collect and reuse plastic straws and turning them into fabric.…
- Smart recycling bin determines the material type of your wasteHave you ever hesitated in front of a recycling bin, trying to determine if your waste can be recycled? Wondering if it’s made from…
- POC: seagrass-based food packaging material to reduce wasteMuch of the plastic we use consists of the packaging of food products. This singe-use plastic is thrown away, only to add to the…
- ISLA Plastic-free paper cup coating is completely recyclableMany paper cups are coated with a thin layer of plastic to prevent the liquid content to spill out. However, while convenient when the…
