A team of Virginia Tech researchers have developed the Sustainable Art Painting toolkit for kids, which converts food scraps generated by US schools into watercolour paint. More about Virginia Tech designers create kid's toolkit for converting compost into paint
A Finnish huussi, or composting toilet, has been built in the centre of the country's pavilion at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, which aims at critically exploring the world's unsustainable approach to sanitation. More about Finnish Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale "declares the death of the flushing toilet"
American startup Recompose has opened a funeral home in Seattle designed by architecture firm Olson Kundig, where human remains are composted and turned into a nutrient-rich soil that can nurture new plant life. More about Recompose human composting facility "transforms your loved one's body into soil"
Italian studio Carlo Ratti Associati (CRA) has designed a concept for a compostable marker pen comprising natural fibres and a water-based, edible ink that would break down within six months. More about Carlo Ratti Associati designs "world's first fully compostable marker"
In the third part of today's collaboration between Virtual Design Festival and Forward Festival, Freitag creative director Pascal Dulex explains how the Swiss accessories brand evolved from making bags out of truck tarpaulins to creating compostable clothes. More about Freitag creative director talks about creating clothes that are "completely biodegradable" at Forward Festival
Public Works has built a water-heating system powered by compost that warms a bench at the Oslo Architecture Triennale to demonstrate the potential of the system. More about Public Works builds waste-to-energy Power Plant(s)! to showcase fossil fuel alternative
Tech-based clothing startup Vollebak has launched a T-shirt made entirely from wood pulp and algae, which breaks down in soil or in a composter within three months. More about Vollebak's plant and algae T-shirt becomes "worm food" in 12 weeks
Aiming to change our attitudes towards menstruation, Central Saint Martins graduate Kaye Toland has developed a tampon delivery system that transforms sanitary products into compost. More about mCycle is a "Deliveroo for tampons" that turns sanitary products into compost
Aiming to change our attitudes towards our own excrement, Dutch design duo Makkink & Bey have created a toilet that collects poo and wee before turning it into compost. More about Studio Makkink & Bey's wheelie-bin toilet harvests human waste for electricity and compost
Oregon designers John Arndt and Wonhee Jeong of Studio Gorm have designed a kitchen where waste products are used to grow plants. More about Flow2 kitchen by Studio Gorm
More from Dutch designer Guus Van Leeuwen: Power Plant is a conceptual device for generating energy from household compost, exhibited at the Design Academy Eindhoven graduation show as part of Dutch Design Week last month. More about Power Plant by Guus Van Leeuwen