Local designer Rafael Prieto has created a collection of furniture using cast-offs of a Tribeca facade for his latest exhibition at Emma Scully Gallery in New York City. More about Rafael Prieto creates furniture from fragments of New York buildings
A recyclable timber pavilion designed to mimic wildflowers is among the prototypes built by students at BuildFest 2026, shown in this video produced by Dezeen. More about Recyclable Wildflower installation among timber prototypes at BuildFest 2026
Grinham Research Group at Harvard University has developed an insulating cladding tile made from waste wool, which was presented at this year's Oslo Architecture Triennale. More about Harvard University transforms waste wool into cladding for retrofits
Design studio Other Matter has built on its flagship product, a petrochemical-free signage film, by recycling it into an upholstery material called Other Matter Leather, on show this week at 3 Days of Design. More about Other Matter launches bio-leather made from single-use signage
Paris-based Baguette Studio has developed a range of wax lampshades that can be melted down and recycled without any loss of material using its own custom-built rotational moulding machine. More about Meltable wax lamps by Baguette Studio can be endlessly remade
Texas lighting company Lucifer Lighting has integrated ocean plastic into its Atomos downlighting, melting down millions of feet of fishing lines and nets into its injection moulding processes. More about Lucifer Lighting puts recycled ocean-plastic lights into mass production
As part of a larger reuse project of a former convent in Montreal, curatorial collective Nouveau Milieu has commissioned design objects repurposed from the pews, which were showcased during Montreal Design Week. More about Montreal designers turn pews into design objects to mark convent's conversion
Students at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, have converted the Kevlar fabric used for the infamous Montreal Olympic Stadium into furniture for an exhibition held during Montreal Design Week. More about Montreal students convert Olympic Stadium roof into design objects
Fashion house Issey Miyake has created handcrafted furniture out of compressed log-like rolls of paper salvaged from the production of pleated garments, which will be unveiled at Milan design week. More about Issey Miyake transforms "wafer-thin" layers of waste paper into marbled furniture
Nostalgia and risk-averse business practices have stifled innovation in the American furniture industry, Rarify founders David Rosenwasser and Jeremy Bilotti tell Dezeen in this interview. More about "Legacy furniture manufacturers have been asleep at the wheel" say Rarify founders
The circular economy is an unhelpfully vague concept that belongs in the recycling bin, writes Smith Mordak. More about "It's time to see all those circular economy strategies for what they are"
University of Edinburgh researchers have used bacteria to turn plastic waste into a Parkinson's drug, advancing a new approach known as "bio-upcycling". More about Plastic bottles recycled into Parkinson's drug using bacteria
French flooring brand Tarkett has announced that its linoleum is now carbon-negative across all stages of its life cycle, from sourcing raw materials to end-of-life deconstruction and recycling. More about Tarkett achieves "world's first" carbon negative linoleum
The Rhode Island School of Design has launched Loop Lab, a pilot initiative that transforms the school's own waste into raw materials for students to reuse and reimagine. More about RISD's Loop Lab transforms its own waste streams into raw materials
Eames chairs reupholstered with a denim-mycelium hybrid textile and mycelium fibre encased in an acrylic coffee table have been showcased in a biomaterials exhibition in New York City. More about New York exhibition "reimagines the home" using furniture made of biomaterials
Some of Johannesburg's most promising young designers joined forces for an exhibition at Design Week South Africa, using locally found and discarded materials to rewrite the narrative about their city. More about Emerging Johannesburg designers turn the city's rags to riches in The Price of Gold exhibition
London's discarded takeaway coffee cups are given a long and useful life in Cupsan, a new biomaterial that local design practice Blast Studio has started producing at scale. More about Blast Studio launches Cupsan biomaterial made from London coffee cups
Bengaluru studio Multitude of Sins has used rejected samples, broken prototypes and construction waste to transform an apartment into its material lab and research space. More about Multitude of Sins designs own material lab as "spatial memoir" of salvaged materials
Dezeen Showroom: Dutch company Pretty Plastic has produced tiles for facades and roofs using a notoriously hard-to-recycle material: PVC from post-consumer construction waste. More about Tiles by Pretty Plastic
Oral care company Suri has made its first update to its electric toothbrush, known for its sustainable approach with bioplastic brush heads recycled through a takeback scheme. More about Suri 2.0 brings new features to bioplastic electric toothbrush