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  • River plastic pollution solutions

    Four technologies tackling the problem of plastic pollution in rivers

    Most ocean plastic starts off in rivers. From bubble curtains to googly-eyed trash wheels, here are four technologies designed to intercept river plastic before it gets to the sea. More

    India Block | 29 November 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Enis Akiev makes marbled tiles from post-consumer plastic waste

    Enis Akiev makes marbled tiles from post-consumer plastic waste

    Kazakhstani designer Enis Akiev has developed a method for turning single-use plastic packaging into tiles, by emulating the organic process of rock formation. More

    Jennifer Hahn | 19 November 2019 | Leave a comment
  • MarinaTex Lucy Hughes James Dyson Awards

    UK student's fish-waste bioplastic MarinaTex wins 2019 James Dyson Award top prize

    An easily biodegradable material that could be "part of a global answer" to single-use plastic pollution has won its inventor, British designer Lucy Hughes, the international James Dyson Award. More

    Rima Sabina Aouf | 15 November 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Charlotte McCurdy creates carbon negative raincoat from algae plastic

    Charlotte McCurdy creates "carbon-negative" raincoat from algae bioplastic

    New York designer Charlotte McCurdy has fashioned a water-resistant jacket from a plastic made of algae, which captures existing CO2 from the atmosphere. More

    Jennifer Hahn | 5 November 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Dezeen Day

    Plastic recycling is "bullshit" says Richard Hutten at Dezeen Day

    Dutch designer Richard Hutten clashed with the CEO of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation at the Dezeen Day conference last week, with the two speakers disagreeing over the role of plastic in the circular economy. More

    Bridget Cogley | 4 November 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Interceptor by The Ocean Cleanup

    The Ocean Cleanup launches system to catch plastic waste in rivers

    Dutch non-profit The Ocean Cleanup has launched the Interceptor, an autonomous system for collecting plastic pollution from rivers before it reaches the sea. More

    India Block | 29 October 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Dorian Renard blows plastic like glass for a collection that reconsiders the material's value

    Dorian Renard blows plastic like glass for a collection that reconsiders the material's value

    French designer Dorian Renard has applied traditional glassblowing techniques to a series of plastic furniture and sculptural pieces, in a bid to present the maligned material in a new light. More

    Jennifer Hahn | 25 October 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Materialism The bag project Studio Drift

    Studio Drift reduces plastic bags into blocks for Materialism installation

    Amsterdam-based Studio Drift has created an installation of 3,000 blue blocks, which each represent the plastic used to make an individual supermarket bag, at the Van Abbemuseum for Dutch Design Week. More

    Augusta Pownall | 22 October 2019 | Leave a comment
  • UK government publishes bioplastic paper

    UK government moves to end "vague and misleading" bioplastic terminology

    The UK government has called for experts to help it develop standards for bioplastics and biodegradable plastics, amid rising concern over greenwashing. More

    Marcus Fairs | 25 September 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Lucy Hughes' fish scale bioplastic wins UK James Dyson Award for student design

    Fish scale bioplastic wins UK James Dyson Award for student design

    University of Sussex graduate Lucy Hughes used fish waste to create MarinaTex, a compostable alternative to single-use plastic that has won her this year's UK James Dyson Award. More

    Rima Sabina Aouf | 24 September 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Watch our talk with Rossana Orlandi from Istituto Marangoni London

    Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs talked to design gallerist Rossana Orlandi about her Guiltless Plastic initiative in a discussion hosted by Istituto Marangoni London. More

    Sebastian Jordahn | 18 September 2019 | Leave a comment
  • PriestmanGoode air travel exhibition Get Onboard: Reduce. Reuse. Rethink a

    PriestmanGoode shakes up air travel to eliminate single-use plastic

    Industrial design studio PriestmanGoode swaps single-use plastic for ground coffee beans and rice husk in its overhaul of throwaway cabin service goods from meal trays to toiletries. More

    Natashah Hitti | 16 September 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Sam Jacob looks to a future when ocean plastic outnumbers fish

    Sam Jacob has reimagined a famous Eames textile for his London Design Festival installation Sea Things, to highlight the threat ocean plastic poses to marine life. More

    Amy Frearson | 16 September 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Cubitts makes Redux glasses from waste materials

    Cubitts makes Redux glasses from waste materials including human hair and potatoes

    Corn husks, wool and yoghurt pots are some of the materials used in a series of experimental spectacles by British eyewear brand Cubitts. More

    Amy Frearson | 29 August 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Ocean Cleanup plastic burning

    Plastic collected by The Ocean Cleanup will be burned to generate electricity

    Dutch non-profit The Ocean Cleanup plans to burn some of the plastic it collects from the Pacific Ocean, Dezeen has learned. Designers and environmentalists say the move "makes no sense". More

    Marcus Fairs | 19 August 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Cyrill Gutsch Parley for the Ocean

    "I don't believe we're going to clean up the oceans" says Parley for the Oceans founder Cyrill Gutsch

    Eliminating plastic from the seas is not possible and instead new materials need to be developed to replace plastic, according to the founder of Parley for the Oceans. More

    Marcus Fairs | 13 August 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Rome recycling scheme exchanges plastic bottles for free rides on public transport

    Bottle recycling scheme in Rome exchanges plastic waste for metro rides

    Rome is trialling a scheme where people can recycle plastic bottles in return for free rides on the city's public transport system. More

    India Block | 12 August 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Lapee female urinal by Gina Périer and Alexander Egebjerg

    Lapee female urinal designed to reduce festival loo queues

    Gina Périer and Alexander Egebjerg have designed an industrial-standard female toilet for festivals and outdoor events that allows people to pee sitting down quickly and safely. More

    India Block | 18 July 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Prada Econyl recycled nylon bags

    Prada to phase out virgin nylon in its "emblematic" bags by 2021

    Italian fashion brand Prada has launched six bags made from regenerated nylon, as the first stage in its plan to phase out virgin nylon in the next two years called the ReNylon project. More

    Augusta Pownall | 12 July 2019 | Leave a comment
  • The Ocean Cleanup redeployed to tackle Great Pacific Garbage Patch

    The Ocean Cleanup redeployed to tackle Great Pacific Garbage Patch

    A floating device employed by The Ocean Cleanup project has been upgraded and returned to sea in a second attempt to catch the plastic waste circulating in the Pacific Ocean. More

    Natashah Hitti | 24 June 2019 | Leave a comment
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