How carefully dismantling buildings and using their elements to produce new structures can positively impact the environment and reduce waste.

To engage people in your community in creative reuse, a recycled art contest is a great way to inspire people from many ages and backgrounds.

Bureau SLA and Overtreders W used only borrowed or recycled materials for this Dutch Design Week pavilion, the venue for Good Design for a Bad World

Sourcing fabric for sewing projects. There are a few main sources to collect the raw materials for sewing projects. If you sew, you will already have definitely realized that you have lots of small scraps of fabric. In this case the journey will be easier for you. Clothing from your closet or close family that you were thinking of getting rid of is a wonderful source of fabric. Another source is charity stores, op shops and the recycle industry. If you have access to the textile industry…

Image 1 of 68 from gallery of Photography: Wang Shu Projects, by Clement Guillaume. Ningbo / © Clement Guillaume

How to upcycle, repurpose, refashion and re-make everything from jewelry to kids clothing and home decor.

Reset Materials, an exhibition at Copenhagen Contemporary, features building fragments made from biomaterials including straw, silicon and biocement.

French architect Clarisse Merlet and her studio show the potential of recycling textiles to create construction materials through FabBRICK.

Image 10 of 15 from gallery of Reduce, Reuse and Recycle: the Three R's Rule Applied to Architecture. People's Pavilion / bureau SLA + Overtreders W. Image: © Filip Dujardin

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