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From concrete-like building materials to restaurant crockery made from food scraps, this roundup explores eight projects created using discarded shells.

Following MIT's proposal to create climate-change-fighting bubbles, here are 10 inventions to limit the impact of architecture and design on our planet.

To mark Earth Day, weve rounded up seven materials that designers are using to replace more polluting mainstays such as plastic, concrete and leather in a bid to limit the impacts of climate change. With a recent study finding that human-made materials now outweigh the total mass of Earths living biomass, designers are becoming increasingly aware of how the products they design impact the planet. From using renewable, carbon capturing materials such as cork, algae and latex to turning reclaim...

Researchers create bio-concrete from invasive plant and animal species Central Saint Martins graduates Brigitte Kock and Irene Roca Moracia have collaborated on a range of concrete-like tiles that give new "economic and ecological" value to invasive species. The material for the tiles, which the researchers refer to as bio-concrete, is made from Japanese knotweed and shells from American signal crayfish. The material can take on a range of different finishes These are among the non-native speci...