Spanish outdoor furnishings maker Vondom has launched its subsidiary, the Revolution, dedicated to making designer furniture out of recycled ocean plastic. Vondom Revolution is collecting fishing nets and other waste plastic from the Balearic Islands and creating long-lasting material to ...
Plastic waste has become an inevitable problem, but there are several eco-conscious designers and companies devising innovative ways to reuse everyday plastic and recycle ocean plastic into furniture or some useful accessories for homes. You may remember Micaella Pedros, who uses ...
Yardbird, a Minneapolis –based startup founded by Jay Dillon creates outdoor furniture from intercepted ocean plastic. With an aim to offer affordable outdoor furniture and minimize the environmental footprint of the business, Jay had the idea of recycling ocean plastic ...
Jaymie Friesen and Hannah Christian of food-grade skincare brand Natural Vegan have come up with EcoBottle, a fully compostable paper bottle that can hold liquids and consumables for more than six months. They have been working for almost three years ...
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 ...
A group of four designers from the Royal College of Art and Imperial College is transforming seafood waste into recyclable bioplastic. Under the name Shellworks, the designers – Ed Jones, Insiya Jafferjee, Amir Afshar and Andrew Edwards, have developed special ...
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 Duluth-based Loll Designs specializes in manufacturing all-weather outdoor furniture made from recycled plastic – coming primarily from single-use milk jugs. They create a wide range of outdoor chairs, tables, benches, planters and other household items. Loll’s furniture boast wooden ...
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 ...
You may have seen old plastic bottles being transformed into small planters or other decorative objects. But Ikea has given these recycled PET-bottles a new life in form of a sleek Scandinavian-styled kitchen. In collaboration with Swedish design studio Form ...
