Studio Swine’s Sea Chair is Made From Recycled Plastic Ocean Waste
Posted By Ana Lisa Alperovich On July 25, 2012 @ 3:56 pm In green furniture,green Interiors,Green Products,Recycled Materials | No Comments
Our oceans are filled with plastic waste [4] that will never fully decompose – the pieces just get smaller and smaller, and therefore more difficult to collect. Seeking to address this pervasive problem, Britain-based Studio Swine [5] worked with Kieren Jones [6] to create the Sea Chair – a sturdy stool made of recycled plastic [7] waste collected from the ocean!
The plastic used in Studio Swine’s Sea Chairs is harvested from the UK’s most polluted [8] beach, Porthtowan [9] – a small blustery cove on the southwest extremity of the British Isles. The studio collects tiny plastic pellets with a low-tech device they created from refurbished agricultural machinery found at salvage yards. This device, dubbed ‘The Nurdler’ consists of a hand-powered water pump, a sluice that sorts plastic micro nodules by size, and a floatation tank that separates materials by density.
Studio Swine creates their recycled plastic seats using a device they call the Sea Press – a furnace and hydraulic press that fits on a small fishing vessel. The studio also collects organic materials such as seaweed [10] and wood and compresses them to make bricks, which they then burn to melt the plastic – that’s what we call a closed loop system!
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[4] plastic waste: http://inhabitat.com/the-5-gyres-project-searches-the-oceans-for-new-garbage-patches/
[5] Studio Swine: http://www.studioswine.com/STUDIO_SWINE/Sea_Chair.html
[6] Kieren Jones: http://kierenjones.com/
[7] recycled plastic: http://inhabitat.com/tag/recycled-plastic/
[8] polluted: http://inhabitat.com/scripps-study-shows-plastic-in-pacific-garbage-patch-has-increased-100-fold/
[9] Porthtowan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porthtowan
[10] seaweed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaweed
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