Category "Material"

Royal College of Art graduate Johanna Schmeer builds on developments in nanotechnology to create synthetic foods for feeding the world's burgeoning population.

The natural alternative to plastic wrap for food storage. A lost tradition of infusing organic cotton with beeswax, organic jojoba oil and tree resin.

Made from polylactic acid (PLA), the set is the result of designer Qiyun Deng’s studies at the École cantonale d’art de Lausanne in Switzerland.

Slovakian designer Šimon Kern's Beleaf chair is made from a mixture of recycledleaves and bio-resin.

London-based designer designer Peter Marigold is launching a remouldable bioplastic card that can be used to make new tools and modify or repair broken objects.

BASF’s ChemCycling project is a new innovative way to reutilize the plastic wastes by thermochemical processes to produce syngas or oils.

TheCircularLab creates a plastic from plant waste that can be recycled, composted and can biodegrade in a marine environment.

Sulfur is a waste product from many industrial processes and could be an alternative to oil from which to manufacture plastics.

Glues have been the cornerstone of linear mass production. But the same glues are a circular economy nightmare. So what about a glue that works like a screw? That’s the idea behind the DSM-Niaga joint-venture.

Scoby, is a membrane made of bacteria and yeast, which is created through a fermentation process.