Tag: plastic, rubber & high tech | Apartment Therapy

Top 5: Green Cookware Choices

Looking to update some items in your kitchen and hoping to make a greener choice? Here are some options you might want to check out......

New Greenish Ziploc evolve Bags

While we'd prefer to pack all of our lunchtime goodies in alternatives to plastic, like reusable sandwich bags, we can think of a few reasons we like having plastic zip bags around (most revolve aroun...

Solé Integrated Solar Tiles by SRS Energy

I was impressed to learn that these "barrel-style" roof tiles pictured above actually contain photovoltaic cells that generate electricity. They're constructed from a light-weight performance polyme...

GROW: A Hybrid Energy Delivery System

GROW .1 What is this, you may ask. Excellent question. These futuristic leaf-like designs you see above are actually solar leaves that harness power from both the sun and the wind. This unique hyb...

Ben the Bin: Stylish Modular Recycling

Reestore just keeps surprising us with the clever and creative reuse designs. Ben the Bin by Reestore is a new product that makes recycling easy and fun. Ben is a cute stackable, washable recycling ...

Future of Milk Packaging: Milk Pouch + JUGIT Container

We've seen the square milk jugs which are supposed to improve delivery efficiency but they will still fill up your recycling bin. Dayless Organic Milk comes in a calcium carbonate bag and sounds delig...

3 Form Eco Friendly Materials

We were recently introduced to a company that makes striking resin products with various botanical materials embedded in them. They're just dreamy and we can't believe that they're eco friendly, but ...

BIPV: A Good Idea?

BIPV stands for Building-Integrated Photovoltaics, which are products like Sunslates, pictured left: it's a shingle! it's a PV panel! it's both a shingle AND a PV panel! It sure looks nifty. But i...

RB Rubber Products

Think tires would make durable flooring? They absolutely do. While often used in athletic facilities, we'd like to see more recycled rubber flooring in homes and apartments. RB Rubber makes a wide r...