Charlotte Böhning and Mary Lempres of Doppelgänger have developed a bioplastic version of polystyrene foam that is made from the exoskeleton of mealworms and breaks down in soil in a couple of weeks. More about Doppelgänger creates polystyrene substitute from plastic-eating mealworms
Sustainable packaging brand Notpla has used seaweed leftover from its own production processes to create paper that can be turned into envelopes and boxes. More about Notpla salvages seaweed by-product to make paper
Danish brand Sinful has created a range of three sex toys using ocean plastic collected in Southeast Asia. More about Ohhcean sex toys are made from recycled ocean plastic
Design studio Envisions has worked with engineering company Imat-Uve to make a recycled textile from used clothing usually considered unfit for recycling. More about Previously unrecycleable clothing made into Fibers Unsorted textile
An autonomous recycling machine designed by Taiwanese company Miniwiz, which can be transplanted into local communities to transform plastic waste into useful products, has received the 2021 World Design Impact Prize. More about Mobile AI-powered recycling plant Trashpresso wins World Design Impact Prize
Norwegian studio Snøhetta has worked with Belgian designers Studio Plastique and Italian manufacturer Fornace Brioni to produce tiles made of glass from discarded ovens and microwaves. More about Snøhetta and Studio Plastique make tiles from recycled oven and microwave glass
Design studio GoodWaste has collaborated with Selfridges to give new life to the department store's waste materials, recycling them into lamps, candles and vases for sale in its London location. More about GoodWaste repurposes Selfridges scrap materials to create homeware line
Architect Hiroshi Nakamura incorporated around 700 windows donated by the local community into the facades of this waste recycling facility in the town of Kamikatsu, the first place in Japan to pass a zero-waste declaration. More about Kamikatsu Zero Waste Center by Hiroshi Nakamura is built using waste materials
Rotterdam studio The New Raw has recycled misprints and prototypes from its previous experiments in additive manufacturing to 3D print a limited edition chair called Ermis. More about The New Raw 3D prints "zero-waste" Ermis chair from studio's own offcuts
EBBA Architects has used hundreds of pieces of timber to give identity to a set of repurposed cabins, creating a temporary education centre with a reversible design. More about EBBA Architects builds Construction Skills School using only reusable components
The white T-shirts and trousers worn by torchbearers carrying the Olympic flame at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic torch relay have been made from recycled plastic bottles collected by Coca-Cola. More about Tokyo 2020 Olympic torchbearers wear uniforms made from recycled bottles
Athletes at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics will sleep on beds made from recycled cardboard and customisable mattresses by Japanese bedding company Airweave. More about Airweave creates cardboard beds and modular mattresses for Tokyo 2020 Olympics
The Cork House, designed by CSK Architects in collaboration with the Bartlett, was the subject of the second Dezeen x Knauf Architecture Project Talk. Register now to watch the recording. More about Watch our Architecture Project Talk about the Stirling Prize-shortlisted Cork House
Designer Nicole McLaughlin has collated an anthology of her viral projects, which see everyday items transformed into wearable pieces of design. Here, she shares her six favourite projects from the book. More about Six projects by Nicole McLaughlin that use ordinary objects in unexpected ways
South Korean designer Donghoon Sohn has pressed plastic slabs together like slices of bread for his latest furniture series, allowing primary coloured, recycled binder to bleed from the cracks as if it was melted cheese. More about Recycled 3D-printing waste oozes from monolithic furniture collection by Donghoon Sohn
Barcelona-based startup Honext has developed a sustainable construction board material made from a combination of enzymes and cellulose taken from the waste streams of paper production. More about Honext develops recyclable construction material made of cellulose fibres from waste paper
Swiss brand Freitag has created a shop in Zurich, which is a "micro-factory" where customers can help make their own bag out of recycled tarpaulins. More about Freitag's Sweat-Yourself-Shop is a tiny factory for making bags
Dutch designer Richard Hutten worked with Lensvelt to create 27,000 new seats for Amsterdam's Schiphol airport that make use of the building's existing resources. More about Richard Hutten melts down airport's old chairs for "radical" new seating system
A series of animal companions created by Sarah Willemart and Matthieu Muller has been named the best design in Samsung and Dezeen's contest to create innovative household objects by repurposing cardboard packaging.
More about Endangered Animals wins Dezeen x Samsung Out of the Box Competition
In this video, Dezeen x Samsung Out of the Box Competition finalist Akhil Kumar discusses his Twist basket, which is made of from the box of Samsung's The Sero television.
More about Akhil Kumar creates faceted basket by folding Samsung Eco-Package box