Turning plastic pollution into design solution! - Yanko Design

The guys at The New Raw make a rather interesting point. The one textile belongings of plastic nosotros consider a do good is in fact a curse. Plastic is designed to final long, but its usage cycle falls vastly short of its actual lifespan. A mere wrapper, bottle or garbage bag has a usage cycle ranging from a couple of hours to a couple of months, yet this very material has a lifespan of anywhere from 500 to 1000 years, making its fashion into landfills and the oceans because it was designed to outlast its need.

The Impress Your Metropolis projection was spawned out of the need to extend the usage bike of plastic past developing a technology to plow waste matter plastic back into a raw cloth. The New Raw transform waste plastic into public furniture using 3D printing, not but extending the life of plastic and minimizing waste as a upshot, just doing it in a way that doesn't necessarily make the end-result look "recycled", only rather a well designed, beautifully manufactured product.

According to The New Raw, individual citizens of Amsterdam generate up to 25 kilograms of plastic waste product annually. The Print Your Urban center XXX Bench, one of the offset in the serial of products uses fifty of waste plastic (an amount generated annually by two such citizens) to develop a bench with a unique, iconic artful, the Amsterdam XXX branding, and the ability to seat up to iv people!

The New Raw's approach to recycling involves visualizing waste as a resources and raw material. Their hope is to turn waste product generated by the residents of Amsterdam into products that are designed to serve its citizens and utilize plastic'southward long life-span every bit an advantage!

Designers: The New Raw & Aectual. (Supported past TU Delft)