WHAT ARE CIRCULAR MATERIALS?
Circular Materials are plastics, natural fibers, metals, etc., that have been recovered from their first/prior use-phase. They have been successfully collected, sorted, reprocessed and are ready for the next life-cycle, in a new product.
On a planet with limited resources we have to transform linear into circular material flows.
Our custom-made materials and products made from recycled feedstocks are saving precious resources, energy and CO2 emissions.
Our principles:
- Re-use what we already have
- Decrease virgin plastic/material emission
- Design for recycling
- Reduce product carbon footprint
See how we help our clients to use waste as a resource.
CASE STUDY
TURNING FASHION WASTE INTO HANGERS
A leading hanger producer challenged us to recycle post-consumer fashion waste into clothes hangers.
Resource: Germany collects more than 150 truck loads of unwanted clothes. Every day! We used the sorted out, non reusable fraction and transformed it into injection moldable Fibre-Pellets.
Circular Material: The Fibre-Pellets are added to the resin at the hanger production site. We replace the virgin polypropylene resin with a post-consumer recycled one.
Application: The industry´s first Circular Hanger! Made out of 100% recycled content. 100% recyclable. At the end-of- life the hangers get collected, reground and injected back into new hangers again.
CASE STUDY
A NEW LIFE FOR OBSOLET SHAMPOO BOTTLES
For our partner TRASH2TREASURE we designed, developed and produced 60.000 SKUs of unique shampoo bar containers.
Resource: 100.000 obsolete PET shampoo bottles.
Circular Material: Reground and mixed with colorant. No further compounding (!) to save energy. Injection molded directly from flakes. No virgin plastic added.
Application: The world´s first solid shampoo in a bottle ;-). Find more info here.
CASE STUDY
SOAP BAR CONTAINER MADE FROM A JAR LID & REGRINDED SHAMPOO BOTTLES
TRASH2TREASURE challenged us again 😉 This time it all started with a given jar lid. We designed a bottom part that makes it a travel case you can hang in your shower. We used post-consumer shampoo bottles and a very simple injection moulding set-up.
Resource: Ready-made jar lid (reuse). Base made from 100% recycled shampoo bottles (post-consumer).
Circular Material: Regrinded white and orange shampoo bottles. Injection moulded directly from flakes. No virgin plastic added!
Application: A beautiful, limited edition of soap bar containers