Art Activist Liina Klauss’ Sculpture From 5,000 Salvaged Flip-Flops
From ocean plastic waste to a large-scale installation at Bali's Potato Head Beach Club
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10pt’s Clever Sustainable T-Shirt Packaging
Student designers Antonina Kozlova and Kanokpon Yokchoo from the Anhalt University of Design started a T-shirt brand whose packaging is not only sustainable, but also useful. The innovative packaging—a spiral paper tube …
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Daisy Harris-Burland Turns Recycled Materials into Couture Fashion
A glimpse at one of Tiger Beer's "Uncaged" artists and an opportunity to join in the program
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This “Inadvertently Engineered” Enzyme Could Help the Environment
“Inadvertently engineered” by scientists at the University of Portsmouth and the US Department of Energy, a new enzyme has been discovered (well, created in actuality) that might help the recycling process—therefore benefitting …
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Malmö Upcycling Service’s “Odds & Ends” Made From Recycled Materials
Using waste materials to create new objects, Malmö Upcycling Service’s “Odds & Ends” collection includes pieces made from “brick, glass, acrylic, stone, and sheet metal.” Unveiled at Reykjavík, Iceland’s DesignMarch last week, …
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Winning Proposals For Plastic Replacement
With ideas varying from renewable materials composed of agricultural by-products and food waste to magnetic additives and compostable organic layering, five concepts were each awarded $200,000 to enable them to enter a …
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Recycle Your Eclipse Glasses
After today’s total solar eclipse in the United States, many who took proper precaution find themselves with flimsy cardboard eclipse sunglasses. Thankfully, these glasses don’t need to occupy table space or end …
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How Old Cosmetics Can Help Wildlife
Rather than tossing used mascara wands in the recycling, send them (or encourage others to send them) to the Appalachian Wildlife Refuge—an all-volunteer organization that rehabilitates animals who have been injured or …
NRG’s Sneaker Composed of Repurposed CO2
A shoe without an environmental footprint by the XPRIZE-affiliate energy organization