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