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- Radiation-Processed Plastic Waste Becomes Durable Building Material in the PhilippinesThe Philippines has developed a prototype residential building that uses construction components made from recycled plastic waste. The materials were produced using radiation-based processing…
- Plastic Fantastic: Tracing the Evolution and Impact of PlasticsThe Industriemuseum in Ghent, Belgium, is hosting "Plastic Fantastic?", an exhibition that explores the development, applications, and challenges of plastics. Running until 2 June…
- From Shopping Bags to Streets: Turning Plastic Waste into InfrastructureGlobal plastic waste is projected to exceed one billion tonnes a year by 2050. Yet only about nine per cent is currently recycled. Researchers…
- What to do with plastic waste?What should we do with all the plastic waste that’s lying around our world? More and more organisations are taking measures to control out…
- Mega Mat: Transforming Plastic Waste into a Sustainable Urban ExperienceAt Bangkok Design Week 2025, MVRDV unveiled the "Mega Mat," a striking public installation designed to highlight the potential of recycled plastic while raising…
- A portable charger made from plastic waste and repurposed batteriesBrighton-based sustainable design studio Gomi designed a 12,000mAh portable charger made from 100% ‘non-recyclable’ plastic waste and repurposed batteries that would otherwise go to…
- Recycled Park made from plastic waste retrieved from the riverPlastic litters our environment and harms marine life when it enters the water. In order to reclaim this plastic waste, various organisations in the…
- Is recycling the solution for plastic waste?Researchers from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden found toxic chemicals in recycled plastic collected in thirteen countries, including pesticides and pharmaceuticals. At first…
- 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…
- 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…
- Robotic 3D Printing System Reuses Shredded Plastic WasteA robotic 3D printing system developed by WASP combines direct plastic recycling with large-format additive manufacturing. The setup can process shredded thermoplastic waste without…
- 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.…
- From Plastic Waste to Smart Sensors: Turning Bags into Pollution DetectorsScientists at Universitas Gadjah Mada in Indonesia have developed a way to transform discarded plastic bags into nanomaterials that can detect metal pollution in…
- Precious Plastic: Build Your Own Plastic Recycling FactoryCurrently, less than 10% of the world's waste plastic is recycled. Project Precious Plastic from Dutch innovator Dave Hakkens however seeks to change this…
- 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…
- 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,…
- A modular tricycle made from recycled plastic wasteFor his graduation project for the Design Academy Eindhoven, Thomas Hoogewerf created a modular tricycle made from recycled plastic and metals, especially for use…
- Zero Waste Bistro is made from recycled drink cartons and recycled plasticZero Waste Bistro, a pop-up restaurant built for the WantedDesign Manhattan fair at the NYCxDesign Festival, is built from board made from recycled drink…
- 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…
- Modular houses made of waste plasticDutch housing association Parteon, foundation Clean2Anywhere and the municipality of Zaanstad will jointly produce twenty homes made from recycled plastic. The foundation Clean2Anywhere builds…
- Turning plastic waste into high-quality fuelResearchers from Purdue University in the US developed a new chemical conversion process that can transform polyolefin waste, a form of plastic, into high-quality…
- Grape waste from wine making could lead to more durable plasticsResearchers from the University of Clermont Auvergne in France is working on a way to use the pomace left behind during wine production to…
- A chair made of recycled plastic wasteCreative platform Space Available collaborated with DJ Peggy Gou to design ‘Trash to Chair’, a chair made of 20 kg of recycled plastic waste…
- Turning food waste into biodegradable plasticsCanadian-based company Genecis developed biological processes that convert food waste, otherwise destined for the landfill, into biodegradable plastics. The type of plastic Genecis produces…
