Celebrate World Water Day by Surfing a 14-Foot Wave Made of Plastic Bottles in San Francisco
For the past 20 years, the world has observed World Water Day on March 22nd - and to mark the occasion this year, the...
The Solecan Combination Waste Bin Makes Recycling a Breeze
Can a simple redesign of the trash can make recycling so easy that everyone will do it? That is what husband and...
Laurens Van Wieringen Recycles Waste Plastic Into Colorful Fluid Tableware
Dutch designer Laurens Van Wieringen collects rejected plastic items from factories and scrap yards and turns them...
Erika Drake's Recycled Plastic Bag Stool Calls Attention to the Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch
Designer and artist Hongtao Zhou worked with his Hawaiian student Erika Drake to fix a broken stool by reinforcing...
BRC Designs' Colorful Capped Out Chair is Made From Hundreds of Recycled Bottle Caps
[gallery_extend] BRC Designs' Capped Out Chair consist of hundreds of salvaged bottle caps layered over...
Artist Aurora Robson Transforms Discarded Plastic into Beautiful Pieces of Art
Aurora Robson isn't just an artist -- she's also an environmental activist. The Canadian-born artist's elaborate...
PK Steel Creates Contemporary Furniture Out of Recycled Plastic and Steel
PK Steel Designs creates contemporary furniture out of recycled steel, but they wanted to take the sustainability...
NYIT's SodaBIB Project Redesigns the Shipping Pallet to Double as a Plastic Roof
Students and professors at the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) have collaborated to redesign the shipping...
DecoBricks: Durable Building Bricks Made From Recycled PET Cups
DecoBricks are a system of modular building bricks made from recycled PET plastic. The decorative bricks repurpose...
Royal College of Art Unveils "Design For The Real World" Exhibition at London Design Festival
[gallery_extend] "Ento - The Art of Eating Insects" aims to introduce the high-protein, energy-efficient...
Woolly Pocket Debuts New Recycled Plastic Wall Planter at Independent Garden Center Show
If you love the look of Woolly Pocket planters but aren't sure how a fabric planter would work in your living room,...
Will.i.am Launches Ekocycle Line of Products Made from Recycled Waste
"All good things must end, but an end can be a new start," explains Will.i.am in a new ad for Ekocycle, a new line...
Pacific Ocean Trash Cleans Up Nice As Method's New Soap Bottle
For years environmentalists have wondered why someone doesn't do something about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch....
Studio Swine's Sea Chair is Made From Recycled Plastic Ocean Waste
Our oceans are filled with plastic waste that will never fully decompose - the pieces just get smaller and smaller,...
RCA Grads Create Recycled Polyfloss Plastic Using a Cotton Candy Spinner
[gallery_extend] The Polyfloss Factory is a project which aims to to reduce waste on a personal level...
