Neil Thomas on building with bamboo.

Neil Thomas on building with bamboo.

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Notpla's Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez on seaweed and his mission to eradicate single-use plastic.

Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez is the co-founder of the seaweed-based packaging company, Notpla. He and Pierre Paslier started working together in a kitchen while students at the Royal College of Art and Imperial College in 2013 and have since gone on to create a genuinely global brand. ...  Show more

Shubhi Sachan on cotton, condoms and working with waste.

Shubhi Sachan is a multi-disciplinary designer and the founder of Material Library of India. The New Delhi-based library was the first of its type in India and acts as a research and design consultancy committed to unlocking the potential of industrial and agricultural waste – of ...  Show more

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