Six years ago, an inflatable sailboat was created in a small workshop on the Breton coast: Tiwal 3 is the world’s first ever inflatable and high-performance dinghy-boat. Equipped with an inflatable PV...
In order to raise awareness about the importance of having a fire extinguisher at home, Korean giant Samsung’s insurance company created the Firevase, a flower vase that can also be used as a throwabl...
Jonathan Morrisson has combined his love of skateboarding and his environmental beliefs by creating skateboards made from recovered plastic bottle caps.
The idea behind recovering plastic waste and...
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Design and Icons
Plastic objects, whether they are recent or firmly-established cult objects,
have revolutionised the world of design, changed habits and left their mark on our
daily lives for several generations
Icons
The small yellow box that revolutionised breakfast
For several decades, a small yellow box has been a mainstay at the breakfast table for millions of children around the world: the box of Nesquik, the world’s most popular chocolate powder. A box that ...
Sporting holidays, whether at sea or in the mountains, are not without their dangers. And carelessness is not necessarily always responsible for accidents. Nature, as majestic as it may be, can someti...
Hundreds of laboratories around the world are attempting to copy nature in order to reproduce the materials refined over the course of millions of years of evolution. Synthetic polymers are frequently...
Some still consider packaging as mere advertising materials, or even just plain waste. This is a largely unjustified “trial of intention”, in particular with regard to primary packaging which has bene...
Plastics play a key role in the construction sector. In Europe, over 20% of the polymers produced are used in construction and public works, and innovations keep on coming. Although their intrinsic pr...
An interview with Manuel Gil , Sales Director at Solar Innova Green Technology, a Spanish company that designs and manufactures an ingenious solar tile....
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