Zero Waste Lab Turns Plastic Trash Into Multi-Use Public Furniture Using 3D Printing
A zero-waste project from the Netherlands is using 3D-printing technology to turn plastic trash into stylish urban furniture.
Zero Waste Lab by The New Raw, a collaboration between Rotterdam-based architects Panos Sakkas and Foteini Setaki, makes everything from park benches to work stations to dinner tables, encouraging people to think about the impact of single-use plastic consumption.
“Plastic has a design failure,” Sakkas and Setaki told Drupa. “It is designed to last forever, but often we use it once and then throw it away.”
The pair established The New Raw in 2015 in response to the global plastic crisis, hoping to raise the visibility of the issue and demonstrate that plastic trash can take on new life as aesthetically pleasing furniture, either for the home or for public consumption.