A lot of things can be recycled, including furniture, decorations and accessories. In one way or another, they can all be ...

A DIY vertical garden maximizes space in a small area. This vertical planter uses a common container that people often toss ...

Though 100% of plastics are recyclable, just 10% of our plastics ever actually get recycled. Most of this waste winds up clogging landfills. For his senior thesis project at Eindhoven Design Academy, ...

UC Riverside scientists have created a small-scale system that transforms food waste into high-protein animal feed and ...

It all started in 2014 when Dave Hakkens, then a student at the Eindhoven Design Academy, released his design for a plastic recycling machine to the world for free. The aim was to make plastic ...

All of that leftover metal, wood, fabric, and tile can find a new home—if you know where to look. If you’re doing your own renovations or just working on some projects around the house, you'll find ...

The 2011 recycle recovery rate in the U.S. was an abysmal eight percent, prompting a Dutch designer to create a DIY plastic-recycling machine. Dave Hakkens’ open-source prototype, called Precious ...

Dave Hakkens is going into “do-it-yourself” mode for plastics recycling. It's not just for a new hipster trend project. Instead, Hakkens has developed a way to grind and recycle plastics and reuse it ...