Vibrantly colored wire is saved from the landfill and woven into recycled fan cages to produce these fresh pieces of furniture.

Plastic waste has been diverted from the city's shoreline to create a cost-effective, green space alternative.

Founded by two sons of farmers, this company wants to grow farm-fresh food -- out of shipping containers.

Fresh Cargo's new fair-trade Maasai Treads line combines locally sourced and recycled materials with indigenous sandal-making skills to create footwear that make a stylish, sustainable statement.

Thousands of abandoned flipflops turn up on African shores--Ocean Sole recycles them into something good.

Don't let artist Agustina Woodgate -- who says stuffing is "like looking into the soul" -- near your favourite stuffed teddy bear.

This contemporary urban home mixes reclaimed materials from local demolition sites with a modern design.

The big day is over and it's time to think about getting rid of the tree. If you've got a sturdy one and want a piece of furniture, here's an idea.

Your favorite clothing item just got even better. These new leggings from Girlfriend Collective tick all the boxes when it comes to eco-friendly and ethical production.

Waste water and waste heat recovery together at last, perhaps the most interesting new thing at Greenbuild.

My favorite day of the year is a shadow of its former self.

It's déjà vu all over again as the industry pushes "chemical recycling".

So you hit a gnarly wave and end up on shore with your board in two pieces. Bummer dude. But your green side can't bear to just trash that board that's gotten you through some pretty wild rides. You could repair it yourself,

Image via: Aaron Chang Gallery Aaron Chang, popular recycled fashion swimwear designer and professional photographer, not to mention surfing legend, is opening a green art gallery in San Diego, February 28, 2009. Each of the pieces are printed with

Aiming to raise awareness about e-waste recycling, this photographer used 4,100 pounds of e-waste in these futuristic scenes.

Tokyo 2020's organizing committee will transform old smartphones, laptops, and digital cameras into a true treasure.

Chances are, your holiday gifts may include an electronic gadget or two, and a new initiative aims to encourage and support the proper disposal and recycling of the old ones.

The best way to extract all of those valuable metals in old electronics may be to grow some fungus.

Argentine architect Carlos Levinton, who we've seen help Bolivian communities with PET, was asked by the UN White Helmets Comission to collaborate with ideas for the reconstruction of Haiti after the earthquake.

This company proves that plastic waste can be a valuable resource.

We’ve covered numerous tote bags here on TreeHugger, but there are so many cool styles out there we always find the need to post info about new ones that we spot. This one, found at Global Exchange (who we’ve mentioned before) is handcrafted in

What is "post-consumer recycled"? Once a material or finished product has served its intended use and has been diverted or recovered from waste destined for disposal, it is then considered "post-consumer." Having completed its life as a consumer item,

A technology developed at a national lab for improving carbon capture at power plants may be able to help craft breweries capture and reuse CO2 from their fermentation processes, while also slashing costs.

Thirty bottles will buy you a ticket on the subway or bus.

Can we hear them saying, "I told you so!" to the rest of the outdoor gear industry?

These bags are built to last, both in terms of usability and style.

Abandon not all ye moth-eaten and shrunken cashmere sweaters—designer Brooke Serson Cernonok of Teddylux can sprout an entire menagerie from your castoffs.

We take a tour of a sustainable factory that turns discarded glass into durable building materials.

The architects call it a "Conceptual Object" but it is pretty and real.

With 100 percent recycled content, it's an impressive standard for technical gear.

A Brooklyn-based design studio turns to digital animation to generate the patterns for these striking rugs made out of recycled carpet pieces.

These unique, handcrafted rugs are made to emulate the look and feel of moss, grass, snow and sand, for enjoyment at home.

There is a new use for your smashed iPhone: a clock.

Take nearly 8,000 old plastic bottles, add some construction waste and mud, and voila: a sturdy and sustainable home.

A major brand is putting out the first fully recyclable shampoo bottle made from recycled beach plastic

How many of these common items have you placed in your blue bin?

Using various vintage fabrics, many with a story behind them, this artist portrays ordinary people and historical figures with an artful eye.

The hotel company plans to recycle old soap into 1 million new bars for Global Handwashing Day.

With the price of scrap metal in the dumper, ScrapArtsMusic has turned piles from dumpsters into green music. The discarded metal, accordion parts, artillery shells, and other junked items salvaged

Yes, but we still have a problem, says Carl A. Zimrig in a new book "Aluminum Upcycled: sustainable design in historical perspective." Because we are using too much of the stuff.

Remember how aluminum cans are "100 percent recyclable into pure aluminum"? They lied.

Constructed as an "apartment-house" hybrid, this prototypical 753-square-foot house makes the most of a small lot.

Sort of, but there is less to it than meets the eye.

In a nod to Buckminster Fuller's design philosophy of "maximum gain with minimal input," the wooden supports for this lightweight canopy are recycled from a village renovation project.

Plastic Bottle Village demonstrates another approach to repurposing single-use bottles.

It turns out, there are a lot of chemicals that have to be dealt with before fabrics can be reused.

The space is the first to pop up at the recently opened Casa FOA interior design exhibition, the largest in the city.

An easy-to-emulate arrangement by local designers made for design exhibition Casa Cor Rio.

Using a non-chemical process based on traditional techniques, these furniture pieces are created with fish skins that would have otherwise gone to waste.

If you've been around the green scene for some time, you may feel some ideas get a little tired over time. That could have been the case for bags from recycled tires, but ever since I got one (not from this brand, of course) I've