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An aluminium alloy made from 100 per cent recycled waste is set to be a game-changer for the furniture industry, according to Norwegian designer Lars Beller Fjetland.

Indonesian non-profit Sungai Watch has unveiled the debut furniture launch from its design studio Sungai Design, aimed at creating useful products from the mountains of plastic waste that it fishes from Bali's rivers every day.

studio sozai center has already transformed its adam sheet made of recycled apple pomace or waste into a card case and a crossbody pouch.

3D-printed using recycled PET bottles, the 'polyformer' is a vertical and modular L-shaped machine that users can adjust to their liking.

a one-liter recycled plastic bottle provides enough raw material for ten 2 x 4 LEGO bricks.

As we take our first steps into a new year (and decade), we enlist the help of Nicole McLaughlin – a designer famed for her innovative work turning old clothes, baguettes and anything she can get her hands on into high-fashion garments – to create a survival kit for 2020. Here, she tells us about the three objects she’s created.

Norweigian aluminium company Hydro is exhibiting designs made entirely from recycled aluminium scrap at Milan design week.

Sportswear brand Camper has released the Roku modular trainer, which is formed of six parts that can be easily assembled and disassembled.

Australian design brand Derlot has released a new version of its Stump stool with a colourful terrazzo-like surface resulting from its recycled plastic materiality.

dutch designer iris van herpen has collaborated with parley for the oceans in five dresses entirely made out of upcycled marine debris.

called gjenge makers ltd, her company initiated following the development of a prototype machine that turns discarded plastic into paving stones.