Posts Tagged ‘repurposed’

Disposable Office

The value of paper is typically measured by the value of the information it carries; once the information is deemed useless, the paper is discarded. Robert Buss of PUSH> reuses paper in the service of a longer-lasting function: furniture. Disposable Office takes the most common material of workplace...

August 4th, 2007 | feature, paper | Read More

Clay Paint

Green Planet Paints offers a clay paint with soy-based resin. Soy replaces the acrylic ingredient used in most conventional paints, which is typically derived from petrochemical sources. Natural mineral and clay-based pigments are added to the soy resin, in addition to titanium dioxide, for odor and...

August 3rd, 2007 | mineral | Read More

Vertical Garden

In addition to its positive aesthetic qualities, natural foliage is being used increasingly as a ‘living’ building material with the pragmatic effects of air purification, acoustic absorption, and thermal insulation. Patrick Blanc’s vertical garden, known as Le Mur Végétal in French,...

January 8th, 2007 | biomaterials | Read More

Vy & Elle

Vinyl billboards are used nationwide as temporary banner advertisements and are usually discarded into landfills where they create toxic pollution. Upset by this wasteful practice, Nicola Freegard and Robin Janson founded Vy & Elle in 2002 in order to transform this landfill-bound material into durable...

October 5th, 2006 | plastic | Read More

X-Ray Lamp

Working long hours in the lab, cancer-immunology researcher Jahan Khalili was inspired one night to create light fixtures using x-ray film. Khalili wrapped DNA and proteomic x-ray film around a simple metal wire frame and hung the fixture from the ceiling and created the X-Ray Lamp. The typical lamp...

June 23rd, 2006 | light | Read More

Ecobrique

French ceramics manufacturer vbc3000 offers bricks that incorporate waste treatment plant residue in the clay matrix. According to the company, Ecobriques perform just as well as conventional ones. The vbc3000 process can produce solid bricks and lightened, low density, granules for use in building construction...

June 4th, 2006 | mineral | Read More

100 Percent

100 Percent is a material designed to have a minimal environmental footprint. Made entirely from postconsumer recycled high-density polyethylene (HDPE), it is waste transformed into engineered panels for design applications. 100 Percent is derived from recycled household packaging materials, such as...

April 28th, 2006 | feature, plastic | Read More

Heat Treated Carpet

Carpet is typically used for 7-10 years (residential) or 5-8 years (commercial), and re-carpeting accounts for 55% of all carpet sold. Moreover, carpet has been estimated to require up to two hundred and fifty thousand years to biodegrade. Heat Treated Carpet is a sheet material produced from polypropylene-based...

April 13th, 2006 | feature, plastic | Read More

Decato

According to Preform Manufacturing, Decato is the most environmentally sensitive interior partition product available on the market. Over 80% of the product is from recycled, bio-based, or sustainable materials, and is virtually 100% recyclable. Core materials are totally non-toxic. Furniture component...

April 8th, 2006 | metals | Read More

Porocom

Porocom – short for ‘porous construction material’ – is an environmentally friendly product that reduces noise pollution. It consists of granules of recycled materials (sintered coal ashes, clay, glass shards, eco grid and so forth) heated to about 200°C before being brought...

March 24th, 2006 | mineral | Read More