The Robot Bird teaches kids about recycling

A fun, interactive sculpture installed in Belgrade aims to animate and educate the citizens and their children about the importance of recycling.


by Lidija Grozdanić

Photo courtesy of the Octopus Association.

Unwaste

Sustainable designers explain how we could restyle our old objects. 

by Cecilia Anesi 

Renata.

Turning waste plastic bottles into solar bulbs

Providing interior lighting for the poor, one litre at a time. 


by Lidija Grozdanić  

Photo courtesy of A Liter of Light.

Coffee can fuel more than just your day!

Using coffee waste as an alternative energy source might be excellent news for people who love starting their day with a cup of coffee.

by Lidija Grozdanić

Capannori the first “zero waste” municipality in Italy

An ambitious project in the hearth of Tuscany. 

by Michele Lapini 

Photo by Capannoli 1, FreeDigitalPhotos.net

The sound of garbage

What would you do if you were given an amount of garbage? Miatralvia decided to... rock it!

by Ilaria Lonigro

Denmark's Sustainable Solutions: Using Waste for Energy

Waste is a pressing environmental, social and economic issue. While waste is often viewed as just waste, and dumped in methane producing landfills, at Amagerforbrænding in Copenhagen, they turn waste into green energy. 

by Peter Bjerregaard

Would you Wear Clothes Made out of Dust?

by Lara Smallman

Philippe Starck. Photo by www.treehugger.com

Can the French bad boy of the design world that is Philippe Starck really save us from ourselves?

A new life for disposed New York umbrellas

A Haitian designer has found a way to clean New York streets from unused umbrellas. 

by Ngalula Beatrice Kabutakapua 

An umbrella dress. Photo courtesy of Himane.

"We need to change, and waste is the place to start"

by Cecilia Anesi

Do You Want the Good News or the Bad News?

by Lara Smallman

Flippers, lotion and . . . ashtray!

What's you footprint on seaside spots? Did you know that cigarette butts can be fatal for whales and tortoises? Beach smokers can green up with a nice handpocket ashtray. The idea spread from Portugal to Italy. Here Daniele Ceragioli tells us how he decided to distribute beach ashtrays in his hometown, Viareggio. 

by Ilaria Lonigro

Materials of the future may be biodegradable

A reportage about research of new materials, which are easy degradable in the nature (for example polyurethane)and about bacterials decomposing them. Could this be the future of eco-materials? 

by Martin Maska

Cradle to Cradle

Effective natural resource management will soon become a decisive competitive factor in business. It will separate the companies that understand how to adapt to the new economic agenda from the rest, and adopting the Cradle-to-Cradle approach could facilitate this shift.

by Peter Bjerregaard 

Developing ecological chemicals at Brno University of Technology

An interview with Prof. Josef Jancar, director of Institute of Materials Chemistry at Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic, which researches new materials (for example polyurethane) which are easy degradable in the nature.

by Martin Maska

Recycling as a competitive edge

Recycling is playing an increasingly important part in our daily lives, but it also marks an emerging shift in our understanding of the economic system.

by Peter Bjerregaard

"More than 80% of the waste in this disposal site is reused."