Status: Concept

Waste Vault Pavilion

Pavilion Made From Recycled Beverage Cartons – On the occasion of the IDEAS City Festival in New York in 2015, beverage cartons were cut up and pressed into plates by heat. These formed an environmentally friendly pavilion that had tremendous strength due to the plastic coating on the recycled cardboard. The recycling concept was developed and implemented by Prof. Dirk Hebel[...]

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MILK MaterialLab Waste Vault Pavilion ETH Zuerich

Algae Water Bottle

Bottle From Agar-Agar – Ari Jonsson during his at the Academy of Arts in Rekjavik has developed the concept for a water bottle made of agar-agar, which dissolves within a few days after use. For this purpose, agar-agar is brought to a boil with water and a gelled mass is formed. This is then poured into a frozen[...]

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Alginsulate foam

Foam From Algae – The innovative alginsultate foam, which was developed in an exchange between TU Graz and the Universidad de Magallanes in Chile, shows the natural sea dweller in a new light. The extraction of the algae material is considered environmentally friendly due to the low CO2 emissions during production. Algae is also a rapidly renewable raw[...]

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Lupine Project

Material From Lupins – The packaging material made from lupins was born from an idea by Iceland designers Inga Guðlaugsdóttir and Elín Harðardóttir. By producing fiberboard from lupine, a plant native to Iceland, the different stages of the plant could be studied by testing the flexural strength of the plant produced. Tests during the changing seasons further showed[...]

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Super Synthetics

Dissolvable Rice Starch Drinking Vessel – With the Super Synthetics project, a drinking vessel based on natural materials was developed by Maria Idicula Kurian as her master’s thesis at Central Saint Martins College. Various ingredients such as rice pepper, potato starch and bacterial cellulose were experimented with and used in the project. If liquid is added to the drinking vessel,[...]

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Milk Plastic

Products From Cow’s Milk Protein – Milk Plastic is engaged in the manufacture of products based on casein as a starting material. For this purpose, the curd contained in surplus milk is separated from the liquid whey by applying heat. The curd obtained is then dried and processed into pellets by adding natural plasticizers. By processing the pellets into board[...]

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