Plastic flowing in the ocean is like a machete in a kid’s hand. By disposing of malleable waste in water bodies we would fill ocean water with more plastic than fish. If we choose to burn it on the heap ...
Danish design brand Mater has launched the Ocean Collection that re-imagines the original 1955 chair and table design by the renowned designer couple, Jørgen and Nanna Ditzel. With regard to its sustainability, the collection is made largely from ocean waste ...
For the last few years, famous international architecture and interior design firm Snøhetta has been working on a project to utilize plastic as a design material. Together with furniture manufacturer Nordic Comfort Products (NCP), they have finally created a chair ...
The Dutch startup Plastic Whale collaborates with Vepa and LAMA Concept to create a range of sustainable office furniture made from wood and ocean plastic. They are already in limelight for letting tourists fish for plastic in the Amsterdam canals. Together ...
Humanscale, a New York-based company known for its wonderfully ergonomic office chairs, has unveiled their latest green design project made in partnership with the California-based company Bureo. Dubbed Smart Ocean, it is a sustainable and ergonomic task chair made out ...
London-based industrial designer Brodie Neill has upcycled ocean plastic to create terrazzo-effect on the Gyro table. The visual effect on the table is similar to terrazzo flooring, which is usually created out of marble or granite materials. However, this furniture ...
Finding ways to recycle oceanic trash, US-based startup ByFusion has come up with a technology-based solution to repurpose plastic debris into durable construction materials called RePlast blocks. Although these building blocks resemble cinder blocks, but they’re made completely out of ...
Dutch Company Hunter Douglas and New York-based Return Textiles LLC has created the world’s first solar control fabric for roller blinds system using recovered shoreline plastics. Dubbed as Greenscreen Sea-Tex, the durable blind fabric is made from plastic that comes from ocean and ...
Architecture firm Spark envisions using tons of plastic waste, dumped into the world’s oceans, to build a series of upcycled beach huts across the shoreline of the East Coast Park of Singapore. It is a great concept to turn oceanic ...
Most of us are aware of the increasing amounts of plastic garbage floating in world’s oceans that will certainly have hazardous effects on eco-system if ignored. However, London-based Studio Swine has come up with a brilliant concept to make oceans ...
