Published 29 March 2021 by Elsa Ferreira

From the heart of the waste processing plant in Ivry-sur-Seine outside Paris, Stefan Shankland has been documenting perpetual and inexorable mutations.

Published 13 June 2017 by Cherise Fong

The movement is picking up speed, from San Francisco to Abu Dhabi, from Nestlé to Ikea, from governments to communities. In Japan, the tiny village of Kamikatsu, is leading the way toward zero waste.

Published 20 March 2017

In the biggest garbage dump in West Africa, in Ghana, a makerspace is being set up where one is beginning to imagine projects to improve the life conditions of the families living there and to create added value from rubbish.

Published 8 November 2016 by Caroline Grellier

Plastic wrappings are a plague in Africa. Not for the Cameroonian engineer Calvin Tiam who developed a roof coating made from plastic waste. Meeting.

Published 12 October 2016 by Alexis Rowell

For the last 9 months Alexis & Blanche have been trying to reduce their waste to zero. By the end of September, they reached 90g per person per week. How do they do it?

Published 30 June 2016 by Alexis Rowell

To coincide with the first Zero Waste Festival in France from June 30th to July 2d, ecowarrior Alexis explains his life with Blanche, minimizing their impact on the environment.

Published 19 May 2016 by Caroline Grellier

Caroline Grellier is keeping the creation journal of Termatière, vine shoot upcycling project. Our material maker produced her first samples.

Published 18 April 2016 by Caroline Grellier

Termatière, future company specialized in recipes of 100% bio-sourced materials, begins its R&D (at last!) with support from the laboratories of Inra.

Published 12 February 2016 by Caroline Grellier

Our designer and DIY columnist Caroline Grellier went into high-speed train mode in early 2016 with Termatière, her business project of 100% bio-sourced local new materials.

Published 11 January 2016 by Caroline Grellier

The Termatière project has been under development for a year, with turbulences and accelerations. Time for a first assessment for our maker columnist, and now start-uper in bio-sourced materials.

Published 7 December 2015 by Caroline Grellier

Blizzard warning on the Termatière, a cooperative project for agricultural waste upcycling into 100% bio-sourced materials, with a decisively maker approach.

Published 13 October 2015 by Caroline Grellier

From maker to researcher, is there only one step? Caroline Grellier discussed the subject with the National institute for agronomical research (Inra) and Sup’Agro Montpellier.

Published 5 May 2015 by Caroline Grellier

For her agro-material design agency project La Termatière, Caroline Grellier went off to Togo to observe the activity of a research centre in local materials.

Published 6 April 2015 by Caroline Grellier

La Termatière, Caroline Grellier’s project of viticulture by-products development, must define its investments needs in order to progress from DIY to mass production.

Published 2 March 2015 by Caroline Grellier

A podium at the Paris Agricultural Show start-up contest and a meeting with scientists: the great leaps forward of Caroline Grellier's viticulture by-products upgrading project.

Published 2 February 2015 by Caroline Grellier

The designer Caroline Grellier keeps the diary of her project of viticulture by-products upgrading. Her Cooperative is now doubly incubated by Agro Valo Méditerranée and Alter’Incub.

Published 5 January 2015 by Caroline Grellier

Does a maker make a good innovator? Caroline Grellier, designer, chronicles her project “Cooperative for the upgrading of viticulture materials", incubated by Sup’Agro Montpellier.