Welsh company Affresol has announced that it will soon make available a range of new, modular homes that use recycled plastic as the primary construction material. These modular homes will supposedly not just be plastics on the exterior, but they will make use of Thermo Poly Rock (TPR), a new material developed by Affresol, which they say is low in carbon content.
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With the UK government moving to cut £500m across education, many schools may be left short of cash. It is with a view to provide funds for schools, that the Support Your School fundraising initiative is moving. And it has rather green ways to approach the issue. The initiative intends to raise £5 million through the recycling and reuse of inkjet cartridges and mobile phones.

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Over the past few weeks, we have been hearing a lot about IBM doing loads of green stuff, which is all good. Now, IBM and Stanford researchers have come up with a way that would allow for PET plastic recycling, and do that at much lower temperatures. Currently, PET plastics are downcycled, rather than recycled. Which is to say, that they are good only for a lesser use like carpets and clothing, and cannot be recycled again.
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Recycling plastic effectively would save our world millions of tons of waste, but the bad guy that plastic is, it doesn’t lend itself easily to recycling. There are of course recycle numbers on most plastic containers, but then even these plastics with same numbers often cannot be recycled together. All this basically takes us to huge mountains of plastics that need to be sorted before they can be put to recycling.
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The Loxolop lamp flows across a number of artistic boundaries. It is inspired by origami and biomorphism, takes on a great shape as a lamp, and best of all, it is made using waste paper from a juice carton factory. Getting the lamp to work, however, won’t be an easy thing. There’s an element of complexity in the lamp which would require the users to exercise their brains a bit and put the two complex shape together. As a reward, the lamp does take on beautiful shapes.
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Puma’s been doing some interesting things lately, like the cool solar phone it unveiled at the Mobile World Congress, or this brand new F1 car. This one won’t run, let alone provide a decent competition those “real” Formula 1 cars, but it is quite an eye catcher.
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Repurposing old containers isn’t something brand new for Korea’s Incheon City, which has one of the biggest harbors in the country. Integrating these containers into the rural landscape hasn’t really shown very promising results, and it is with this in mind that the AnL studios created the OceanScope observatory.
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Whatever Men in Black may be up to, they would most likely approve of the Alien Queen. That the queen is 2.4 meters high and made entirely of steel would probably help them reach the decision quicker. The Alien Queen sculpture created by RoboSteel is made entirely out of steel and recycled parts reclaimed from iscarded cars, boats, dishwashers, motorbikes, televisions and the like.
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The Cloudscape looks like a wonder world, quite like the one seen in fiction and cartoons where everything is fluffy and soft. This is an installation by the Bjarke Ingels Group and was installed at the P.S. 1 Young Architects Program design competition. While the shape may not be an exact reminder of the clouds, the design pretty much does its job well.
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The size of shipping containers probably makes them very useful for constructing living quarters, and that is the reason why we see so many interesting designs from what once used to be plain old shipping containers. But that isn’t all the story, the 20 container cabins to be built at the Camp Emerald Bay will also include reclaimed lumber, durable rubber flooring, LED lighting, and solar photovoltaics.
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