9 July 2013 Last updated at 23:08 GMT Help
More and more of us are recycling our waste at home in a bid to save resources - but could manufacturers do more themselves, by using recycled products as their raw materials in the first place?
The BBC's Up Next team have taken a look at three very different products that in their own ways, do just that.
First up, a recycling bicycle, or 'The Ingenio', as its creator, Victor Monserrate calls it. The Puerto Rican design student at London's Roy
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