Balenciaga has its four-figure IKEA bag, but it wasn’t the first label to find beauty in the banal – Ava Nirui traces her favourites
Five times fashion turned trash into treasure
Brazil's trash pickers turn garbage into art
DIY Projects that Turn Trash into Treasures - Goodnet
Plastic waste has an impact on our planet. It comes from the things we produce and buy—from food containers and packaging to the soles of sneakers. Plastic piles up in landfills. When it ends up in our oceans, it is…
TIME for Kids Trash to Treasure
Sackitey Tesa Mate-Kodjo's Photography Turns Fast-Fashion Trash
NASA Technology Designed to Turn Space Trash into Treasure - NASA
From trash to treasure: Artists turn discarded items into sought
Today, we launched the first product made with plastic certified from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch: The Ocean Cleanup sunglasses. We also presented how we can go full circle in our mission by creating a product with our plastic catch to fund the continuation of the cleanup.
Turning Trash into Treasure: The Ocean Cleanup Sunglasses
Transforming Trash Into Treasure: Upcycled Gift Boxes
Repurposed Container Gardens – Turn Trash into Treasure - The
Designed by Rem Koolhaas’ architecture firm OMA, Potato Head Bali’s idyllic ‘creative village’ – is another step towards a more sustainable, equitable future of hospitality and tourism
Potato Head, the Bali Resort Turning Tourist Trash Into Treasure
Grossly ambitious and rooted in scientific scholarship, The Other Dark Matter shows how human excrement can be a life-saving, money-making resource—if we make better use of it. The average person produces about four hundred pounds of excrement a year. More than seven billion people live on this planet. Holy crap! Because of the diseases it spreads, we have learned to distance ourselves from our waste, but the long line of engineering marvels we’ve created to do so—from Roman sewage systems and medieval latrines to the immense, computerized treatment plants we use today—has also done considerable damage to the earth’s ecology. Now scientists tell us: we’ve been wasting our waste. When recycled correctly, this resource, cheap and widely available, can be converted into a sustainable energy source, act as an organic fertilizer, provide effective medicinal therapy for antibiotic-resistant bacterial infection, and much more. In clear and engaging prose that draws on her extensive research and interviews, Lina Zeldovich documents the massive redistribution of nutrients and sanitation inequities across the globe. She profiles the pioneers of poop upcycling, from startups in African villages to innovators in American cities that convert sewage into fertilizer, biogas, crude oil, and even life-saving medicine. She breaks taboos surrounding sewage disposal and shows how hygienic waste repurposing can help battle climate change, reduce acid rain, and eliminate toxic algal blooms. Ultimately, she implores us to use our innate organic power for the greater good. Don’t just sit there and let it go to waste.
The Other Dark Matter: The Science and Business of Turning Waste