Category "Waste"

The enormous variety and abundance of plastic packaging—including tough-to-open clamshells—is a big headache for the recycling industry.

Barnacle is a fully funktional sideboard by Artist and Designer Stuart Haygarth, mimicking decaying ships on the sea bed.

Better To Transport is a tricycle made from recycled materials commonly found in Mexico City, with demountable components designed to be easily replaced over time.

‘Frammento’ is a collection of skateboards designed by Paolo Gentile and made from rubber obtained from End-of-Life tires.

“Environmentally Conscious Organization” created a pizza box made from recycled cardboard with a perforation that lets you separate the so called “Green Box” into four plates plus a stripe that becomes a container for leftovers.

By combining vegetable oil and rust powder Irish teenager Fionn Ferreira developed a ferrofluid – a liquid that acts as a carrier for tiny particles of a magnetic substance.

French designer Gaspard Tiné-Berès proposes to repair and re-use discarded and damaged appliances, with readily available reclaimed materials providing the necessary components, and the bodies constructed from cork.

A Lamp created from paper pulp of 4-paper egg cartons that are spread over a mold and left to dry.

San Francisco-based Fireclay Tile turns old CRT glass into recycled glass tiles.

Researchers at IBM developed the process, called VolCat, as an alternative to traditional recycling.