Zero Waste Lab News Today

What role can bars and mixologists play in protecting Earth’s fragile environment? It’s a question that Torres Brandy is attempting to answer via its innovative Zero Challenge competition, which is designed to promote a new paradigm in hospitality by aligning cocktail culture with environmental responsibility.

We present the key facts and figures behind the relationship climate change shares with cities, buildings, architects, and materials.

It is only with the collective efforts of everyone that we can succeed in making UC Berkeley a cleaner and more sustainable campus for years to come.

A project exploring mycelium as a building material is included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at University of Colorado Denver.

We've started to tell the story of ReGeneration Surf, but we need your help to finish it! Help fund the final short film!

Environmental organizations on campus have spent the COVID-19 pandemic spearheading several sustainability initiatives, including a focus on single-use plastics. CalPIRG’s Plastic-Free Seas campaign began in the fall of 2019 to push UC Berkeley to take action on the global ecological, health and environmental damage caused by single-use plastic, according to a CalPIRG press release. Spearheaded by Nicole Haynes, then CalPIRG chapter chair for UC Berkeley and Plastic-Free Seas coordinator, the...

Zero Waste Lab Turns Plastic Trash Into Multi-Use Public Furniture Using 3D Printing A zero-waste project from the Netherlands is using 3D-printing technology to turn plastic trash into stylish urban furniture. Zero Waste Lab by The New Raw, a collaboration between Rotterdam-based architects Panos Sakkas and Foteini Setaki, makes everything from park benches to work stations to dinner tables, encouraging people to think about the impact of single-use plastic consumption. “Plastic has a design...