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Aerial rendering of a floor clad in

Second time around

French researcher “quarries” on site for a new type of recycling and restoration

November 12, 2019

Photo of a display of a cocoon-like pavilion with various brownish-yellowish skins mounted on the wall

MIT lab creates sculptural pavilion made with dissolvable panels

April 15, 2019

Recycling truck wrapped in art for Washington, D.C.

Designed to Recycle

Washington, D.C., turns recycling trucks into art

August 2, 2018

Blue-sky Thinking

City of Dreams Pavilion brings artifacts of the agro-industrial age to New York City

July 19, 2018

IKEA recycled furniture

Flat pack it in, flat pack it out

IKEA to launch line of furniture made from recycled materials

July 6, 2016

Pneumatic tubes for transporting mail, as seen at a Sears Roebuck in Chicago. Similar tubes could one day be used for large-scale garbage collection in New York City. (Boston Public Library / Flickr)

Could pneumatic tubes on the High Line help New York achieve zero waste by 2030?

February 17, 2016

Chicago recycled an old rapid-transit station and sold its pieces at public auction

September 2, 2015

(Courtesy Urban Campsite Amsterdam)

Temporary Urbanized Campsite for Netherlands’ Man-Made Island

August 13, 2015

Broken umbrellas and bicycle wheels get a second life in these two, completely recyclable pavilions on Governors Island

June 30, 2015

Dutch ecopreneur Joost Bakker designs zero-waste homes, repurposes carcasses for his restaurant and delivers flowers

June 23, 2015

Archtober Building of the Day #30> Sunset Park Material Recovery Facility

November 3, 2014

Dlandstudio Proposes Plastics Recycling Center at the Brooklyn Navy Yard

June 22, 2012