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A green background decorated with white LED bulbs. The bulbs colourful leads overlap to form a graphic pattern.
The one-euro challenge. Stopping at nothing to make LED bulbs truly affordable.
A close-up of a wedge dowel joint about to be snapped in place on the table.
In stubborn pursuit of speedy self-assembly
Guillaume Charny-Brunet, SPACE10’s Co-founder & Strategy Director.
SPACE10 – the IKEA research and design lab exploring the future of living
A little boy laying on his side in bed smiling with a grey soft toy elephant.
How we work with chemicals
A woman putting a filled water bottle inside a brown leather purse.
Eliminating single-use plastics – and keeping plastic waste out of our oceans
Three IKEA veggie hot dogs in buns.
The veggie hot dog. A delicious plant-based alternative.
Malin Nordin, Head of Circular Development at Inter IKEA Group.
Why the future of furniture is circular
Product Developer Anna Granath and designer Emma Olbers when creating the IKEA KNIXHULT lamp.
Setting out to make a sustainable icon
A bag and a tablecloth from the IKEA MUSSELBLOMMA textile collection together with fish nets on a mirror cube.
Turning plastic waste into beautiful textiles
Rice straws in a field in India.
Change is in the air. Turning waste into products.
A school of fish swimming deep under the ocean's surface.
Seafood you can feel good about
A pair of hands hold a cotton plant.
Committed to sustainable cotton – and to changing the industry
A little girl holds a dried leaf in front of her face.
Becoming forest positive
Girl in striped yellow t-shirt holding a carrot stick and standing next to a burger and a pile of carrot and cucumber sticks.
Food is precious. How can we avoid wasting it?
Lena Pripp-Kovac, Head of Sustainability at the Inter IKEA Group.
Towards using only renewable and recycled materials
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