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Practical purposes for potato peels

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Students from Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Italy developed a cone to hold French fries made from potato peels, while the start-up Chip[s] Board developed an MDF-like board material made from peel waste. Designers ...

A house built with seaweed

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Omar Vázquez Sánchez, founder of the company Blue Green in Puerto Morelos, Mexico, constructed a house in fifteen days, with seaweed as the primary building material. Seaweed is gaining popularity as a material. It is ...

Affordable prosthetics made from recycled plastic waste

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The initiative Project Circleg aims to fight the world’s plastic pollution as well as help people in need of prostheses by producing low cost lower-limb prosthetics made from recycled plastic. The prosthetic leg system is ...

Rugs made from worn out sport shoes

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Sports brand Adidas has commissioned Dutch designer Simone Post to make rugs from worn sport shoes. Worn sport shoes exist in large quantities in the world, and it has a steady waste flow, so it ...

3D printed block of digital wood has an internal grain

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Researchers at Columbia University used a voxel printing techniques to create digital wood, complete with internal grains and external colour textures. The block of digital wood is based on an olive wood sample, with its ...

The Future of Urban & Landscapes: an interview with Cees Donkers

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“Urban Lab” is the theme that Urban & Landscapes ambassador Cees Donkers considers important for our annual trade fair MaterialDistrict Rotterdam. Donkers was the city architect of Design City Eindhoven in the Netherlands until his ...