Category "Waste"

Royal College of Art graduate Tessa Silva has turned a clay-like material made from waste milk into bulbous vases, candelabras and door handles called Chalk & Cheese.

MANOTECA crafts unique pieces of furniture by using parts from abandoned products.

Benjamin Benmoyal, a fashion student at Central Saint Martins in London, uses discarded video and cassette tapes to design his new collection called “It Was Better Tomorrow.”

The company repurposedMATERIALS comes up with creative ways to keep all sorts of unwanted stuff out of landfills.

The Ocean Cleanup’s device — a 2,000-foot long floating tube that skims the surface of the water to catch plastic trash—has returned to shore.

In 2016, Japanese scientists discovered a bacterium that can break down PET plastic. Now, researchers from DTU will speed up the process to put plastic waste to use.

The world is beginning to understand the threat of global plastic waste, according to the renowned broadcaster Sir David Attenborough.

Indonesia has become a dumping ground for vast quantities of the world’s unwanted plastic since China banned imports of foreign plastic waste in 2017.

The new technology is expected to reduce our dependency on products made from petrochemicals.

Working with a few fashion friends Rachel Kelly designed patterns for three tote bags and started to put the recycled material to use.