With the increasing awareness on the importance of sustainability, several global garment brands, including Hennes & Mauritz (H&M), Walmart and luxury brand Stella McCartney, have started promoting sustainable fashion for reducing the ...
Tags: Recycling Apparels, Apparel
Starting this September, the two exhibitions will be held in halls 2 and 4 at Le Bourget. Hall 4, the most recently built structure at the Parc du Bourget, has been selected for its ultra-modern infrastructure and its layout, which allows ...
Tags: Texworld, Apparelsourcing
GoGo squeeZ, a squeezable fruits product brand owned by French group Materne, has partnered with TerraCycle, a US-based upcycling and recycling company, for GoGo squeeZ Brigade, a free recycling program. The recycle program will enable ...
Ahh. The floating shelf. It’s a shelf that floats, just… like magic. What’s not to love? I’ll be moving this year so I’m in the predicament of knowing what a pain it is to fill those kinds of holes, so I ...
Over the year, I have written about a variety of interior design and gardening ideas to use throughout the seasons. There are all fun to research and put together. But as always, I have favorites. Unless you have the money to change out ...
Tags: interior design, gardening ideas, 2012, design
Just before Christmas, the global home textiles industry is preparing for Heimtextil. Since 1971, the world summit of the home textiles business has been taking place in Frankfurt am Main — this time from 9 to 12 January 2013. As ...
Tags: Textile World, Home Textiles, textiles industry, textiles
Who knew plastic bottles could actually be made into something that doesn’t represent trash. Not only are these creations sustainable, they are also nice to look at. Below are a few examples of how you can transform your old soda ...
Tags: Home Decor, Plastic Bottles, art, Upcycling
Tom's of Maine, a leader in natural oral and personal care products, has partnered with TerraCycle, a recycling and upcycling pioneer, to give a second life to product packaging with the launch of the Tom's of Maine Natural Care Brigade. In ...
Tags: Recycling Initiative, Natural Care Brigade, product packaging
Oral and personal care products maker Tom's of Maine has partnered with TerraCycle, a recycling and upcycling company, has launched the Tom's of Maine Natural Care Brigade, in a bid to give a second life to product packaging. The ...
Avery Dennison's new Bottle-to-Bottle (B2B) film portfolio aims to address the easy removal of labels for PET reclamation programs. The B2B range is built on clear/white BOPP film facestock anchored by SR3010, a switchable adhesive, which ...
US-based Malt-O-Meal Company has introduced the Sally's brand cereal in green packaging. Malt-O-Meal said by packaging Sally's cereal in resealable bags and eliminating the exterior box, the cereal bags leave less consumer packaging to ...
Tags: green packaging, Cereal, cereal bags
what A Waste! Innovative ways to divert used clothing and textiles from landfill. A seminar and exhibition is being jointly hosted by I&G Cohen Ltd and Axion Consulting at the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) in Manchester on Tuesday ...
Tags: textiles, textile recycling, textile market, textiles industry
Young companies and emerging product, furniture and textile designers will be presenting inspiring ideas and innovative textile developments at next year’s Heimtextil (9 to 12 January 2013) fair in Frankfurt, Germany. With a ...
Tags: innovative textile, Home Textiles, textile designers, heimtextil fair
Rustic chic meets DIY and the Bike Culture edge,with a hint of upcycling brings you to the design aspects of the bicycle chandelier.A quick browse through the internet shows that these recycle bike chain junkies have utilized both ...
Tags: Bike Culture, bike chain, light deseign, chic lighting
If you are not an architect you may have a few questions at this point. Bumwad is used by architects – per the Urban Dictionary – ”The name given to thin transparent tracing paper used by architects, engineers and others, ...
Tags: pendant light