Category "Waste"

From desk organizers to bird feeders - there are literally hundreds of useful gadgets you can craft from empty plastic bottles.

French artist Anastassia Elias has founded Toilet Paper Art using the paper tubes to create scenes from everyday life, as well as suggestions and predictions.

A lamp made of empty Tetra Brik boxes.

Designer Brodie Neill has created a contemporary hourglass filled with microplastic instead of sand to highlight the issue of ocean plastic pollution.

Emily Enrica’s design is called Paper Noodle. A packaging made from paper pulp which is 100% biodegradable, recyclable, microwave safe and FDA tested food safe.

Sweet Sneak Studio's Microplastic Photo Series explore the impacts of our global plastic pollution.

The unknitting machine is a student-designed device that uses human power to unravel old knitted clothes, so the yarn can be reused.

Scientists from the UK’s National Physical Laboratory have developed a printed circuit board that falls apart when immersed in hot water.

Afroz Shah is a young Indian lawyer from Mumbai whose name is synonymous with the world’s largest beach clean-up project. In 2016, the UN awarded him for their Champions of the Earth Award.

Scottish startup Kenoteq has launched the K-Briq – a more sustainable building brick that is unfired and made of 90 per cent construction waste.