Recycling
Rafael Prieto creates furniture from fragments of New York buildings
Recyclable Wildflower installation among timber prototypes at BuildFest 2026
Meltable wax lamps by Baguette Studio can be endlessly remade
Lucifer Lighting puts recycled ocean-plastic lights into mass production
Issey Miyake transforms “wafer-thin” layers of waste paper into marbled furniture
“Legacy furniture manufacturers have been asleep at the wheel” say Rarify founders
Tarkett achieves “world’s first” carbon negative linoleum
RISD’s Loop Lab transforms its own waste streams into raw materials
Blast Studio launches Cupsan biomaterial made from London coffee cups
Multitude of Sins designs own material lab as “spatial memoir” of salvaged materials
Material Cultures and Studio Gil use biomaterials for London community hub
V8 Architects builds Rotterdam homes almost entirely from reused and recycled materials
Harvard University transforms waste wool into cladding for retrofits
Other Matter launches bio-leather made from single-use signage
Montreal designers turn pews into design objects to mark convent’s conversion
Montreal students convert Olympic Stadium roof into design objects
“It’s time to see all those circular economy strategies for what they are”
Plastic bottles recycled into Parkinson’s drug using bacteria
New York exhibition “reimagines the home” using furniture made of biomaterials
Emerging Johannesburg designers turn the city’s rags to riches in The Price of Gold exhibition
Suri 2.0 brings new features to bioplastic electric toothbrush
Max Lamb transforms hotel waste into one-of-a-kind furniture
Polycycle Illumination turns plastic film waste into jellyfish-like lamps
