Waste recycling center architecture

Machines use science to separate a stream of waste into valuable raw materials.

This design-build project transformed a beloved neighborhood resource into a destination built around sustainability. The new Recycling and Environmental Resource Center serves an average of 400 visitors a day with a circular site plan that safely separates operations and visitors’ paths of...

Community Recycling Center | Architecture school graduation project 2021

Splendor in the Trash - Waste as a Resource - Amager Bakke - Waste to Energy Plant in Denmark to provide recreation to city dwellers on its roof top ski slope. Image: BIG / Bjarke Ingels Group

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Back in 2003, Kamikatsu, a town in Tokushima Prefecture, became Japan’s first municipality to go zero waste, establishing a whopping 45 categories for recycling. Today, the village reuses about 80 percent of the garbage it generates, and the Kamikatsu Zero Waste Center is at the forefront of the community’s charge to become entirely trash-free inContinue reading "Recycled Building Materials Construct a Multi-Purpose Zero Waste Center in Japan"

Completed in 2019 in Schweinern, Austria. Images by Andreas Kraus. This center for recycling and waste management is a project of the community association for environmental protection of St. Pölten in Lower...

Image 8 of 13 from gallery of Smestad Recycling Centre / Longva arkitekter. Photograph by Ivan Brodey

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Six NSW councils have received funding to develop recycling facilities for problem household waste such as oils, paints and gas bottles.

Eco cycle zero waste park concept

Leeds, England will soon be the green poster child for waste–to-landfill reduction with its upcoming Recycling and Energy Recovery Facility, designed to remove recyclable waste from the city’s trash bins—214,000 annual tons of waste, to be exact. Designing the project is Jean Robert Mazaud, founder of France’s S’PACE Architecture, whose expertise lies in large-scale industrial […]

This small project humbly sits in the countryside, approximately a one-hour drive from the center of Kaohsiung City, a southern metropolis in Taiwan. Commissioned by a client who owns a 1.27-hectare land for soil waste management and treatment, the major request was simple yet crucial that they expected this building to become the place where they could survey the whole site and be capable of immediately understanding the actual situation at any moment.

A DIY project is helping communities around the world to reuse their plastic waste instead of just sending it for recycling.

DLW Architectes and Mathieu Le Baerzic Architect have realised an innovative industrial facility, featuring a treelike mixed structure that appears through the polycarbonate facades.

A public recycling facility by Longva Architects introduces a new building typology in Oslo.

Australian architect Alex Symes was inspired by the tiny house movement to create a sustainable, portable home on wheels for Dresden, maker of 100-percent recyclable prescription eyewear.