Traditional cooling systems for buildings use refrigerants and electricity, which contribute to the atmospheric greenhouse ...

Bamboo: The Versatile Giant Bamboo is an incredible material that's causing a significant shift across industries. This plant ...

Cars speeding along a smooth, black-colored street in Nepal's Pokhara are also driving over heaps of discarded plastic, transformed into an ingredient in road construction. Nepal's urban areas ...

The variability of plastics creates issues in the recycling process, with polyvinyl chloride and polyethylene terephthalate, for example, deteriorating the quality of recycled oil — the building ...

"We saw scope for such plastics to be utilised as a raw material, partially substituting ... India has been leading the world in building a network of plastic roads, even making the usage of ...

Researchers at the University of Maine have managed to 3D print an organic building ... a common material in 3D printing and fully biodegradable as it is made of corn residue and wood flour from ...

The Voices of Liberty, an acapella group that performs at The American Adventure in EPCOT, debuted new costumes made from recycled materials. The debut was part of the opening day of the 2025 EPCOT ...

Natural building using less flammable materials gain interest post-wildfires Officials open to alternative building materials like adobe Challenges include financing and insurance for new ...

which is notoriously hard to do because many textiles use blended materials that are difficult or impossible to separate, and when textiles are recycled the quality tends to degrade over time. Most ...

Currently, about 450 million tons of plastic are discarded each year, but only 9% is recycled ... upcycling utilizes the existing building blocks to incorporate the mass and characteristics of the ...

Their innovative approach to homebuilding uses composite honeycomb sandwich panels made from recycled paper ... The result is a strong, lightweight building material that is fireproof, soundproof and ...