Five years ago, retail innovator Phillip Raub disrupted the industry when he co-founded b8ta, a retail-as-a-service company with experiential, data-driven showrooms designed for trying and buying new ...

Researchers behind the device want to limit food waste and encourage “hyper-local circular economies.” A new type of 3D printer could help households do their part to reduce food waste while also ...

A new era of 3D printing "microfactories" is helping to turn waste plastics into "highly competitive" products fit for use in the construction industry, according to Veena Sahajwalla, professor and ...

Detroit — Instead of putting mounds of powdered waste from its 3D printers in a landfill, Ford Motor Co. is putting it in F-250 trucks. The automaker last year discovered the discarded byproduct of 3D ...

Every year, the world throws away about 62 million metric tons of electronic waste. Despite the valuable metals in electronics, we recycle less than a quarter of what we produce. At the end of the day ...

In the late 1990s, the designer Issey Miyake unleashed his game-changing A-POC project, an early attempt at zero-waste fashion. The process involved feeding a single piece of thread into an industrial ...

No one wants to design consumer electronics that last longer than a few years. This trend is an ecological disaster, with millions of tons of computers, printers, fax machines and cell phones ending ...

OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Model No., the on-demand custom furnishings company, today announced the launch of their sustainable home furnishings line after over a year of perfecting the supply ...

This article appeared in Machine Design and has been published here with permission. In breakthrough research, engineers affiliated with UNIST (located in Korea’s largest industrial city, Ulsan) have ...

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