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- Bricks made of church tower debrisDutch circular concept firms Brokkenmákers and New Horizon have developed a circular brick made from debris from the renovation of the Dom Tower of…
- Mobile Factory turns debris into building blocks for a new lifeThe Mobile Factory from the Netherlands transforms debris from disaster stricken sites into lego-like building blocks that are rebuilding communities around the world. Rubble…
- Rebuilding with Rubble: 3D Printed Concrete from War DebrisResearchers at the Kyiv National University of Civil Engineering and Architecture (KNUBA) are developing a sustainable concrete mix made from rubble. This includes debris…
- The Seabin Project cleans up the first marina in the NetherlandsThat the oceans are full of plastic probably doesn’t come as a surprise, but how to clean it all up is another matter. Projects…
- 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…
- Making new building materials out of demolition waste and fungiArchitectural firm Redhouse Studio designed the Biocycler, a building recycler that uses living organisms like microbes and fungi to make new building material out…
- Tides Rewoven Light Gives Discarded Fishing Nets a Second LifeTides Rewoven Light is a concept lighting project that transforms abandoned fishing nets and plastic marine debris into functional lighting objects. A team from…
- A robotically built dry-stone wallResearchers at ETH Zürich taught an autonomous excavator to construct dry stone walls by itself, using demolition debris and boulders weighing several tonnes. The…
- The (outer) world’s first wooden satelliteResearchers from Kyoto University in collaboration with Sumitomo Forestry, a Japanese company, have started to develop what should be the first satellites made out…
- Plastic, the new natural stone?Marine biologists at the Marine and Environmental Research Center (MARE) on the Portuguese island of Madeira reported on “plasticrust”, a veneer of plastic encrusted…
- How to clean up the oceanDutch start-up The Ocean Cleanup deployed their updated system last month while US non-profit organisation Ocean Voyages Institute announced that it has successfully removed…
- Two examples of Chinese material designTwo Chinese designers use waste materials, namely recycled paper and demolition waste, to create (urban) furniture. Paper Table Designer Li Xiao-Ming of Archstudio used…
- 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…
- Ocean Plastic Becomes FantasticWe love materials that help to clean up our oceans. Over the past year, we’ve looked at few earth-friendly innovations coming the sea including…
- A portable light made of industrial wasteJapanese design studio We+ designed a portable light fixture made of industrial waste, like fine debris and rubble. Called Ramli, the lamp is designed…
- Ultra water-permeable pavementStart-up Aquipor designed a pavement material with submicron-sized pores that allows water to pass through, but everything else to stay on the surface. While…
- Products made from plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage PatchDutch non-profit organisation The Ocean Cleanup brought its first batch of ocean plastic to shore from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, announcing it will…
- Fishing nets turned into 3D printed shellsIn a new project called Second Nature, Rotterdam based research and design studio The New Raw in collaboration with Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation in Athens…
- The first carbon negative road in the NetherlandsOn 1 November, the first CO2 negative road in the Netherlands was opened, located on the N211 between Poeldijk and The Hague over a…
- The Ocean Cleanup’s clean-up mission ready to startA month ago, the Dutch non-profit organisation The Ocean Cleanup deployed their first clean-up system from the San Francisco Bay. On 17 October, the…
- 3D Printed Airless Tyres Combine Elastomers With Impact-Absorbing GeometryPrint&Live, working with iSCALE3D, has developed fully 3D printed airless tyres for unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs). The design replaces the pressurised chamber of a…
- Rhino-Inspired Cellulose Fibres Combine Strength And BiodegradabilityResearchers from Anhui Agricultural University and Zhejiang University have developed high-performance cellulose fibres that combine the strength of advanced synthetic fibres with toughness comparable…
- 3D Printed Street Furniture Made From Recycled Construction WasteChinese studio BENTU Design has developed a method to transform demolition waste into 3D printed urban furniture. The project, titled Inorganic Growth, explores how…
- “World’s First” Poker Set Made From Recycled Marine PlasticA poker set made from discarded marine plastic, said to be the world's first, shows how ocean waste can become a high-quality design product.…
