Amsterdam-based eyewear company Ace & Tate's shop in Antwerp has interiors clad with terrazzo made with colourful chips of recycled plastic sourced locally by Dutch startup Plasticiet.
Ace & Tate collaborated with sustainable materials company Plasticiet for the shop in Belgium as part of their push to become more sustainable.
The brand has pledged to become carbon neutral by 2030, and by the end of this year all of their glasses will be made from 100 per cent bio acetate ? recyclable acetate mixed with bio-based plasticisers instead of oil based.

Plasticiet, founded by designers Marten van Middelkoop and Joost Dingemans, collects plastic waste and turns it into sheets of material that look like traditional stone such as marble and granite. For the Antwerp Ace & Tate they created a terrazzo effect with large chips of bright blues, reds, yellows and green.
"The recycled plastic we used is polyethylene, a very common material that finds many uses in industrial and construction appliances as well as domestic products such as food packaging, kitchen ware and toys," Dingemans told Dezeen.

The plastic was all collected from the local area by recycling company Suez, which uses infrared light to sort the waste. Plasticiet picked out the pieces they wanted to create an attractive colour combination. They used nearly 1,000 kilograms for the project.
"Compared to the white base material, which used to be food packaging, the reclaimed plastic from Antwerp b...