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Disney Unveils Eco-Chair for Adults That Looks Like It’s for Kids

Disney Unveils Eco-Chair for Adults That Looks Like It’s for Kids

Kiddie Co. Walt Disney is launching a line of upscale furniture at the Milan Design Fair in Italy this week. Disney teamed up with Italian furniture makers Cappellini to create a fancy “adult

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New York’s Recycling Program Finally Getting Expanded!

New York’s Recycling Program Finally Getting Expanded!

New York City will soon move into modern times with an updated recycling program that will increase plastic recycling, place more recycling bins around the city and add drop off locations in the boroughs

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EcoNation and TerraCycle Transform Snack Bags into Upcycled Gadgets

EcoNation and TerraCycle Transform Snack Bags into Upcycled Gadgets

TerraCycle has been rocking the upcycling world for a while now by collecting trash from their consumers to make colorful accessories from packaging. Now they’ve teamed up with EcoNation to make a

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Tweet to Win A Karim Rashid Designed Water-Filtering Bobble Bottle!

Tweet to Win A Karim Rashid Designed Water-Filtering Bobble Bottle!

Want to win a beautiful, water-filtering bobble water bottle? All you have to do enter is tweet! That’s right, we’re giving away 10 of these rad Karim Rashid-designed reusable bobble bottles,

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Tweet to Win A Karim Rashid Designed Water-Filtering Bobble Bottle!

Tweet to Win A Karim Rashid Designed Water-Filtering Bobble Bottle!

Tweet to win a beautiful, water-filtering bobble water bottle! If you missed last week’s contest to win a Karim Rashid-designed reusable bobble bottle, today is your lucky day because we’re

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Win A Karim-Rashid Designed, Water-Filtering Bobble Bottle!

Win A Karim-Rashid Designed, Water-Filtering Bobble Bottle!

Win a colorful, modern water-filtering bobble water bottle! Ever find yourself down to your last drop of water in your reusable bottle and tempted to buy bottled? Well, you’ll never have that

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Win A Karim-Rashid Designed, Water-Filtering Bobble Bottle!

Win A Karim-Rashid Designed, Water-Filtering Bobble Bottle!

Win a beautiful, water-filtering bobble water bottle! We’re huge fans of design mastermind Karim Rashid‘s colorful, reusable bobble bottles that filter your water on the go, so we’re

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Affresol Makes Modular Homes Out of Recycled Plastic

Affresol Makes Modular Homes Out of Recycled Plastic

While a party guest suggests to Dustin Hoffman’s character in The Graduate that “There’s a great future in plastics,” nobody could have predicted that they’d one day be used

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Karim Rashid Unveils Water-Filtering “Bobble” Bottle

Karim Rashid Unveils Water-Filtering “Bobble” Bottle

Here at Inhabitat we’re pretty much glued to our reusable water bottles, so we got a little giddy when we saw the Bobble, a water filtering bottle designed by iconoclast designer Karim Rashid that

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IBM Creates Plant-Based, Highly Recyclable Plastics

IBM Creates Plant-Based, Highly Recyclable Plastics

IBM researchers announced yesterday that they discovered a method of creating highly recyclable plastics from one of the most eco-friendly materials around – plants. Not only are the

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Recycling Robot Uses Lasers to Sort Plastic

Recycling Robot Uses Lasers to Sort Plastic

Osaka University recently unveiled a recycling robot that uses lasers to sort out different types of plastics. The robot, designed by IDEC, the Photonics Advanced Research Center, and Mitsubishi Electric

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Great Pacific Garbage Patch is Worse Than We Thought

Great Pacific Garbage Patch is Worse Than We Thought

It’s a rumor that we hoped would never be confirmed: at least 1,700 miles of plastic trash is floating in what is commonly known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Up until this point, scientists

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SUSTAINABLE STYLE: Plastic Fantastic ‘Melissa Shoes’

SUSTAINABLE STYLE: Plastic Fantastic ‘Melissa Shoes’

Melissa Desire + Triton Red Hot Heels, $58 at Kaight NYC We generally associate plastic shoes with blister-generating sandals or galoshes that take eons to decompose in landfill, but when it comes to

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