Better To Transport is a tricycle made from recycled materials commonly found in Mexico City, with demountable components designed to be easily replaced over time.
Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Thomas Hoogewerf created the Better To Transport tricycle as his final project after spending some time in Mexico City as an intern during his degree.
The main elements of the tricycle are made from recycled plastic, with additional metal supports for stability, which can also be made directly from waste. The aim is for the bike to be produced locally and at the lowest possible cost.
Mexico City is notorious for its heavy traffic, with many commuters sitting in jams for hours every day. Hoogewerf also discovered that the city was producing a large amount of plastic waste. He began his project by documenting the different ways plastic was used in the city.
"Plastic is a very good material to use for hygiene, especially for consumption in the streets," explained Hoogewerf. "Mexico is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, Coca Cola consumer in the world, producing a large amount of PET bottles. Landfills in this mega city are growing and no real actions are taking place to solve this issue."
"If we start to invest in ways to re-use the material we can say that Mexico City has the biggest mine in the world for potential new future products," the designer told Dezeen.
He chose to focus on creating an open source solution to create a recyclin...