Whether it's a pair of tattered jeans, a landfill-bound glass bottle or a bald tire, post-consumer waste is a massive problem ...

Inside portions of the home use old barn wood. This model with recycled house material starts at $35,000 and is available in ...

Builders now are constructing fully livable homes with the ... to reuse and repurpose a building’s materials whenever possible. By creating glass blocks made from recycled glass that can be ...

A home made from recycled plastic is so well-insulated ... Plastic is impermeable and does not conduct heat, making it a good building material for hot and cold countries, he adds.

Concrete, the second-most-used material on Earth ... shallow seas rich with the lime for building their shells. It is this solidified soup of ancient oyster bits that when mixed with shales ...

Portions of the home interior were also constructed from recycled wind turbine components. Credit: Vattenfall / Jorrit ...

Thirty-six homes—the world’s last topped with ... And, as it turns out, when naturally uprooted by wind, dried and used as a building material outside of the water, eelgrass continues to ...

They plan to print an entire villa of these homes, and to start building recycling facilities in China to collect material for use in the printer. The first home for sale will be located in Qingdao.

An envelope. It indicates the ability to send an email. Asphalt pavement is one of the world's most recycled materials. Its ingredients can be reused over and over, and recycling it is cheaper ...

With the majority of homes and residential projects being ... As we developed more advanced building skills, we used materials such as wood, stone, and clay and architecture evolved significantly ...