What do peanuts, rice, bananas, potatoes, and mushrooms have in common? In addition to being delicious, they have the potential to make excellent additions to a new building material proposed by the Arup group. In a report entitled “The Urban Bio-Loop,” the firm proposes using food waste (something developed nations have an abundance of) to build structures that are low-cost and eco-friendly. According to the authors, the report aims to demonstrate ‘that a different paradigm...
from Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building https://inhabitat.com/this-company-wants-to-turn-food-waste-into-building-materials-heres-how
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