During this year's New York Design Week twelve RISD students unveiled Recyclable Composites - an innovative collection of furniture made of Twintex®, a cutting-edge fully recyclable plastic composite. Because the material doesn't have resins, products made with this material can simply be melted down and used again. The results of their brave experimentation with this new material were absolutely stunning. Read on for a look at their projects -- from intricately woven stools and lamps to ultra-lightweight chairs and a gravity-defying table supported by strands of thread!
These designs remind me so much of Hudson Furniture http://www.hudsonfurnitureinc.com/
Polypropylene = plastic = resin
Filament is a form that the PP/resin/plastic has been processed into.
If the products are melted down as suggested you will have what’s known as glass reinforced Polypropylene a low cost composite suitable for furniture/auto parts and many other things. GFPP is a resin based composite which is very difficult to reuse, although in this case the first generation might be pretty good material due to the long glass fiber length.
Nice work with a new material by the students though.