recycling

Sustainable modularity and/or modular sustainability.

Brazilian Alfredo Moser saw light where others saw bottles, garbage or just plain recycling material. His innovation/invention now recycles sunlight (and plastic bottles) all over the world, spreading lightning fast.

From this:

To this:

From Malaysian architect/designer Edward Chew, to win the (2011) Grand Prize in the Bright Ideas Lighting Design Competition.

This origami lamp is the product of clever design, spawning from recycled Tetra Pak packages cutted into strips and then folded into triangles. These were then assembled to form the final, spherical, piece, without the use of any adhesives whatsoever.