Waste Vault - ETH Zürich Pavilion from building blocks made from recycled plastic Watch Video
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Description: For the IDEAS CITY Festival in New York at the end of May, ETH Zurich constructed a 90 m2 pavilion made from recycled beverage packaging. The project, led by ETH Zurich`s Assistant Professor Dirk E. Hebel and Professor Philippe Block, aims to show the immense potential of waste for the construction sector.nnYou can't make an omelette without breaking eggs – this saying does not refer to the world's waste production, but it describes the phenomena surprisingly well: almost every human activity