Cardboard USB Drive Concept

Art Lebedev has come up with the idea of making USB flash drives on cardboard, which can be easily torn from a strip, and you can write down the file content on the exterior with a pen and share it!

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Modernizing The Christmas Tree

A "modern" twist to the natural and synthetic trees we've grown accustomed to!
Made with 100% recycled cardboard.

Get you Christmas tree here.

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File Formats Go Green!!!

The WWF format is a PDF that cannot be printed out. It’s a simple way to avoid unnecessary printing. So here’s your chance to save trees and help the environment. Decide for yourself which documents don't need printing out – then simply save them as WWF.

SAVE AS WWF, SAVE A TREE

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Food Packaging Into Haute Couture

French designer Katell Gelebart has created a colourful collection of wearable food packaging.

Working with Art D'Eco, a designers' collective that she helped found, DesignBoom reports that Gelebart's motivation to create her line comes from the idea waste is a resource with lots of potential.

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Urinal And Sink Combo

Eco urinal concept, designed by Yeongwoo Kim, recycles the water that is used for washing hands to flush the urine.

The sink with an integrated urinal will also help free up some extra space in the bathroom.

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Lugum: An Elegant Alternative To Plastic Cups

"Lugum" by Kimming Yap of Creativeans, a design studio based in Milan and Singapore.
This simple monochrome crockery set has all the benefits of disposables, without being cheap-looking.

Made out of the biodegradable cereplast bioplastic, "Lugum" is also a more eco-friendly alternative to those plastic cups.

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A Floating Pool In New York

+ Pool is an initiative by a group of architects and designers to build a floating pool in the rivers of New York City… and they need your help. The project was launched with the ambition to improve the use of the city’s natural resources by providing a clean and safe way for the public to swim in New York’s waters. This site is the culmination of Concept Design for + Pool and they are looking to build a team of interested organizations and professionals to continue the development of the project into a buildable proposal.

Their next step is to partner with local cultural, developmental and environmental groups to raise public and private interest, identify civic potential and approach the municipality, while working with engineers, planners and specialists to refine the social and ecological performance of + Pool.

To find out more, contact them at info@pluspool.org.

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Starbucks Recycled Mugs

These recycled ceramic mugs were brought to life in a zero-waste factory in Japan, which reuses the clay of former mugs and dishes to create new ones. It’s a story of reuse and renewal that is told from mug to package. The particles coming together to form words and shapes represent a renewed respect for resources.

Alice Friedel found the way to give broken pieces of ceramic a new life and make them  beautiful and whole again!

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The Recycled Wallet

The slim Holstee wallet design holds the essentials – cash, credit cards and even has a sliding window for your ID and Metro card. Working with a family-run non-profit based in India that works to collect and recycle litter off the streets of Delhi they were able to create their dream wallet.

This vegan (!) wallet is made primarily of plastic bags and newspapers, collected off the Streets of Delhi in India. Production of this wallet helps reduce waste in Delhi, provides fair wage employment and subsidizes healthcare and education for each employee’s family. Their packing is a minimal slide insert made of (at least) 90% recycled material.

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