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- Space Waste Lab draws attention to waste in spaceDutch design studio Studio Roosegaarde announced their new large-scale project, Space Waste Lab, which investigates how to upcycle space waste into sustainable products. The…
- Food Waste Ware: tableware with lacquer made from food wasteJapanese designer Kosuke Araki created tableware called Food Waste Ware, made from carbonised food waste, and Anima, also made from food waste and with added…
- Bottle-Up: What if Glass Waste Could Become a Valuable Asset In Zanzibar?WHAT IF...glass waste on Zanzibar could become a valuable asset? That is the question a team of Dutch designers is taking on as part…
- Transforming E-Waste to Gold: A Sustainable Approach to Material RecoveryA team of researchers at Cornell University has developed a method to extract gold from electronic waste (e-waste) and repurpose it as a catalyst…
- Ignorance is Bliss project repurposes waste metal as pigmentsWith her ongoing Ignorance is Bliss project, designer Agne Kucerenkaite repurposes metal waste from industries as pigments to make new valuable products, including ceramic…
- Coffee Waste Upcycled Into High-Performance Biodegradable InsulationA new material innovation demonstrates how everyday waste streams can be transformed into high-value building solutions. Researchers at Shenyang Agricultural University have developed a…
- Chemical Recycling Recovers Building Blocks From Polyurethane WastePolyurethane (PU) is widely used in mattresses, furniture, insulation, automotive components and numerous other products. However, recycling this versatile polymer remains challenging, particularly when…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Banana Peel Waste Forms Basis For Experimental BiomaterialsBanana peels are a common organic waste stream, but their material potential often remains unexplored. The research project From Waste to Resource by Kardelen…
- 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.…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Construction material made of cellulose wasteHonext is a sustainable construction material made of cellulose leftover of unusable paper sludge and cardboard waste. Most construction materials are difficult to recycle…
- Ceramics made of reclaimed industrial waste by-productsCalled Circular Ceramics, Sara Howard designed a tableware collection made of reclaimed industrial waste by-products, aiming to minimise the consumption of finite raw materials…
- Furniture made from waste clothes and other post-consumer materialsAs our trash piles grow, reclaiming and recycling materials becomes increasingly important. Circular consumer brand Pentatonic has applied its technologies to address multiple consumer…
- Seaweed and Algae Waste Become Bespoke Interior Textiles in CopenhagenNatural Material Studio has created bespoke bio-textile installations for the renovated Sticks’n’Sushi restaurant in Lyngby, north of Copenhagen. The project shows how organic waste…
- Recycled Paving Blocks Made From Mollusk Shells And Mining WasteResearchers at the University of Córdoba have developed a paving block made entirely from industrial waste. The innovation replaces both natural aggregates and conventional…
- Lithuanian Researchers Turn Textile Waste into High-Strength CementResearchers at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) in Lithuania have developed a new way to turn textile waste into both alternative fuel and high-performance…
