From waste to design!

Recycling is good, upcycling is much better. Not only is it the today's trendiest word, but it's a real solution for tomorrow.

These are three excellent examples of creative reuse. From plastic to wood, these three projects prove that our waste can be used as raw materials. The results are mesmerizing!

Upcycling is the process of transforming waste materials or unwanted products into new materials or products of better quality or for better environmental value.

Print Your City: so design!

Print You City is based in Amsterdam. Plastic waste are raw materials as proved by this very ambitious studio, which wants to turn the 23kg of plastic thrown annually by each resident in the streets of Amsterdam into design furniture for public space.

The Print Your City solution is to use a 3D printer to create street furniture out of this plastic waste, starting with public benches. XXX is its first product. The bench is made out of the same amount of plastic two residents produce every year. Print Your City aim to create other infrastructures such as bus shelters or more bins!

Club 418: so unexpected!

Some projects are born out of an awareness, others, of a common passion. Alexandre Meyssirel and Guilhem Dupouy are both passionate about jazz and surfing. Together, they founded Club 418 in Seignosse (France).

This incredible duet turns waste from the surfboards manufacture into unique and design furniture, inspired but the ocean! Who would have thought that resins, foam and even fiberglass from surfboards could end up in a furniture store?

UpCycly: so cool!

This French startup uses wood waste, including pallets, to make custom-made and eco-friendly furniture. UpCycly is a BtoB solution which allows companies and groups to benefit from a personalized and ecological workspace.

This startup has an obvious positive environmental impact, but it also responds to other social issues by employing only local artisans and organizing collaborative workshops to raise awareness of upcycling.