Designers including Michael Marriott, James Shaw and Soft Baroque have favoured recycled materials for this year's Ready Made Go collection, presented at Ace Hotel during London Design Festival. More
A single piece of flat, flexible plastic serves as a whole set of measuring spoons in this invention by Polygons Design. More
London Design Biennale 2016: fragments of recycled ocean plastic are inlaid to achieve the terrazzo effect of the Gyro table, designed by Brodie Neill for Australia's entry into the first London Design Biennale (+ slideshow). More
Graduate shows 2016: Vilnius Academy of Arts graduate Austeja Platukyte has designed a range of packaging using a material made from algae, which could replace non-biodegradable forms of plastic (+ slideshow). More
New York firm Hou de Sousa has created an interactive installation in a Washington DC subway station, using over half a million plastic spheres glued together to form building blocks (+ slideshow). More
Graduate shows 2016: design graduate Micaella Pedros demonstrates how heat-shrunk plastic bottles can be used to create stable furniture joints in this movie filmed by Dezeen for the Royal College of Art (+ movie). More
Graduate shows 2016: Royal College of Art graduate Micaella Pedros has repurposed discarded plastic bottles into joints that can be used to hold wooden furniture together (+ movie). More
Graduate shows 2016: Royal College of Art graduate Tessa Silva-Dawson has used cow's milk to create a natural alternative to plastic from non-renewable sources (+ slideshow). More
Danish design brand Karakter has relaunched furniture and lighting created by Italian industrial designer Joe Colombo in the 1960s (+ slideshow). More
Sports brand Adidas and environmental initiative Parley for the Oceans have released the first batch of running shoes with uppers made using recycled plastic recovered from the sea (+ movie). More
Clerkenwell Design Week 2016: US company Loll Designs has created a range of bright-coloured garden furniture from discarded milk and detergent packaging. More
Paritzki & Liani Architects has completed an office for an engineering company in Tel Aviv, featuring a billowing "sky-ceiling" created using the brand's signature product (+ slideshow). More
Canadian architecture studio UUfie has inserted polycarbonate partitions into a medical clinic, part filling them with glass to create a hazy "horizon" (+ slideshow). More
The architecture college at Washington University in St Louis has announced it plans to prohibit students from using styrene in their models, citing health risks related to the chemical that is used to make foam boards. More
Dutch designer Dave Hakkens has updated his series of Precious Plastic machines, which anyone can build and use to make products by recycling the material (+ movie). More
Milan 2016: coloured streamers erupt from the first-floor arches of a palazzo facade to create this undulating canopy designed by Beijing architecture studio MAD (+ slideshow). More
Milan 2016: a minimal rocking horse by Nendo and a swing by Philippe Starck are among Italian design brand Kartell's collection of products aimed specifically at children, a key trend in Milan this year (+ slideshow). More
Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has built a showroom and production facility for a Japanese furniture manufacturer, which features both translucent undulating walls and a simple rectangular roof. More
Architecture firm Spark wants to use HDPE plastic waste to build a series of elevated beach huts resembling giant pine cones in Singapore. More
A group of University of Tokyo students overseen by architect Kengo Kuma have developed a 3D-printing pen that can be used to create complex architectural structures out of plastic sticks. More