The consumption of energy in the building sector can be up to 40% of its total energy demand of an industrial country. For this reason, green building strategies can be extremely effective as far as fossil fuels reserve and greenhouse gases reduction. Sustainable materials can play an important role, lesser energy is required for their production than the one needed for conventional materials. People are more forgiving of discomfort if they have some effective means of control over alleviating that. However, many modern buildings seemed to have just the opposite effect. They take control far from the human occupants and try to place control in automatic systems which then govern the overall indoor environmental conditions, and deny occupants means of intervention. In the recent years' many new materials for noise control have been studied and developed as alternatives to the traditional ones (glass or rock wool); these materials are either natural (wool, cotton, clay) or man-made from recycled materials (rubber, carpet, plastic, cork). Their importance is proven by the fact that in Europe many Municipalities have introduced into Building Regulations specific recommendations to improve their valuable use in new constructions, allowing a reduction of construction taxes or other benefits. This paper presents an updated survey of the characteristics and the acoustical properties of sustainable materials for noise control and in particular sound absorption coefficient, airborne and impact sound insulation data, as well as an analysis of the procedures to assess the sustainability of these materials (LCA, Eco invent, Eco-profiles). The improvement on the human quality of life and the continuous growth in population in developed societies have exacerbated the environmental and financial issues. Some of these problems are noise and the different types of human in industrial wastes. Many natural commodities have been recently developed and tested for acoustic applications. Sound-absorbing products absorb most of the sound energy striking them and reflect very little. Therefore, sound-absorbing products have been found to be very useful for the control of room noise.