Cairo design studio Mobikya takes old tyres, one of the world's biggest waste management challenges, and upcycles them into pieces of artisan furniture.
As owner of Gazwareen, Shahir Maged Mikhael scours the Egyptian coastline for driftwood, which he can build into cutting-edge, sustainable furniture.
Green Shift Leb wants to create sustainable furniture and green jobs in Lebanon, a country that could use eco-friendly initiatives more than ever.
Beirut-based furniture designer Collect to Create wants the whole of Lebanon to get excited about upcycling old junk into new, useful products.
“I have always recognized the huge amount of waste on Amman's streets, especially when growing up in east Amman, and started talking with a friend about what we could change,” Alaa Ziadeh says.
CAN Interiors wants to turn Cairo's liability of solid waste into an asset by creating a line of contemporary modern furniture.
Though the Lebanese government is reported to be low on action, a big section of society is racing to counteract the damage done through raising awareness such as Elyesh SD’s initiative, ODDD.
Though it all started off as an experiment with freelancing, upcycling discarded-of furniture suddenly became a fully-fledged business for Nour Nsheiwat and her husband, Nabil Haddad.
Cairo's Reform Studio is taking thousands of discarded plastic bags and converting them into fashion and homeware products.
Cairo-based Mostafa Hussein has set about giving oil drums a productive, eco-friendly reincarnation with his custom-made furniture business, Readymade.
Aya Tager is the Israel-based industrial designer behind AyaKaya, a business that creates functional and upcycled products from waste — and through its workshops, encourages others to do the same.
Ben Yavnieli founded Eden Social Wood Recycling as a way to preserve discarded wood, and to bring people who work with their hands into a community of their own.
