Reviving Local Economies by Harvesting Waste

Reviving Local Economies by Harvesting Waste

Posing the question of whether industry and nature can co-exist, designer Marlène Huissoud investigates waste material from the insect world in her sculpture collection Of Insects and Men. Combining honey bee bio-resin, a natural by-product of beekeeping, with manmade waste glass fragments, Huissoud challenges our understanding of ‘real’ and ‘fake’. The bio-resin is processed using […]

Built of Waste StoneCycling

Built of Waste StoneCycling

StoneCycling, founded in 2013 in southern Holland by Tom van Soest and Ward Massa, transforms local waste into sustainable building material. Each of its WasteBasedBricks is made from waste materials gathered within a radius of 150km of the factories StoneCycling works with. Variations in local supplies and differences in production methods result in a range […]