Pentatonic turns smartphones, cans and cigarette butts into flat-pack furniture
Start-up company Pentatonic is aiming to "radically transform consumption culture" with a range of furniture and products created from food, electrical, plastic and textile waste.
The company, led by Jamie Hall and Johann Boedecker, is working with an adapted injection-moulding process to transform waste materials into homeware.
It will launch its first collection of customisable flat-packed furniture ? all made entirely from recycled materials ? during this year's London Design Festival.
When it comes to making the furniture, the type of rubbish used is determined by its properties. Typical examples include smartphones, cans and cigarette butts.
"Subject to what product, finish or performance we are looking for, we select trash based upon its properties and application possibilities, and then apply this technology using a number of precision manufacturing processes," the studio told Dezeen. With plastic, the waste is washed and sorted before being shredded into pellets, to create a new material ready to be formed into furniture.
Chairs and tables are also designed to be assembled without the need for tools ? instead, the components themselves aid the construction of each piece. This means waste is minimised, and no toxic glues or resins are nececssary.
Through their new venture, Hall and Boedecker hope to "reshape the furniture industry", by showing how products can be produced from recycled materials on a large scale.
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