Located on University of Brighton’s campus, the carbon negative building serves as a living research and design project, exemplifying what buildings can be built with. The house is comprised of 85% post–consumer products. Materials used to build the carbon–negative structure includes floppy disks, pairs of jeans, videocassettes and about 20,000 toothbrushes. | Find out more about the green structure on Inhabitat
UK’s first carbon–negative building is built from upcycled materials
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