Six Swedish design studios have produced items and materials from industrial waste, including pedestals made from ash and flowerpots from apples, for an exhibition in Malmö, Sweden.
The designers were teamed up with manufacturers as part of the ongoing What Matter_s 2.0 project, which is organised by the Form/Design Center cultural institution.
The results will be shown at the Metabolic Processes for Leftovers exhibition in January, curated by Copenhagen-based Kiosk Studio.
Six designers took part in the project
Each of the six studios was asked to create a sustainable material or product using waste from a company's industrial production processes.
Among the studios taking part was Henriksson & Lindgren, which worked with Kiviks Musteri, best known for producing cider and fruit wine. "The design teams 'speed dated' the manufacturers, and we chose Kiviks Musteri because they stood out from the others since their waste material was all organic and we saw that as an exciting challenge to work with," Henriksson & Lindgren told Dezeen.
Henriksson & Lindgren made flower pots and plant clips from apple waste
The result is a collection of flowerpots and plant clips made from the sludge leftover from the company's juice press. Henriksson & Lindgren worked with two companies in Skåne to develop a bioplastic from the sludge.

"The polymer group PHA is made from feeding the bacteria in the sludge, and the bacteria produces the biopolymer," sai...