Tag: recycling

These sneakers may look normal, but they in fact have an upper construction made from ocean waste plastic and illegal deep sea fishing net collected by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. The shoes were created by adidas, in collaboration with...

Another of Milan Expo‘s official sponsors is Nestlé, who have created the Baci Perugina pavilion. Most people who have visited Italy will be familiar with these little hazelnutty chocolates, and the pavilion has been done up to look like a...

Airline KLM collaborated with the Design Academy Eindhoven on Plane to Product, a fun recycling project. Using objects taken from aeroplane interiors, Design Academy students created new and useful products. KLM has recently upgraded their World Business Class, so gave 14 students...

Travel to the heart of St. Louis, Missouri and you’ll find the City Museum, possibly the best kids’ (and big kids’) playground in the world. Built on the 600,000 square foot site of the ex International Shoe Company, the museum/enormous...

The tiny Principality of Monaco’s Expo 2015 pavilion focuses on cooperation, governance, and education. Designed by Italian architect Enrico Pollini, the structure is made up of a number of freight containers, creating a colourful and creative facade which is, most...

Every day New York City produces 11,000 tons of waste. To solve this problem the office of Mayor Michael Bloomberg is launching a new advertising campaign called “recycle everything” to encourage New Yorkers to recycle any type of food, even...

The Campana Brothers (Humberto Campana and Fernando Campana) are extremely talented and well known Brazilian designers. In 1983, the two brothers teamed up to develop furniture made by ordinary, every day materials – including waste products such as cardboard, rope, fabric and wood scraps,...

Parking Canopy | Plastic Bottles Colored Water Recycling without limits…designer Garth Britzman of Lincoln, Nebraska used recycled bottles filled with colored water to create stunning topographical shade canopy for a vehicle. This project reused recycled soda bottles as a canopy under which a small...

The couch and armchair are made out of recycled foam, the natural and colorful shape comes from the different hackled foam source material. The system consists of two basic elements / panels which can be added easily together by a...

  Tires recycling isn’t a problem for Korean artist Yong Ho Ji. He uses tire strips and synthetic resins to create unusual sculptures. Along with sculptures and busts of familar animals this collection contains hybrid animals and hybrid humans. The...