Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Tim Teven has developed a process for making furniture and building blocks using the waste separated from paper fibre during the recycling process.
Tim Teven's Recycling Reject project came about after he visited a paper recycling facility in the Netherlands and discovered that the recycling process created a huge amount of industrial waste.

A large number of fibres, such as plastic and wood, are separated from the paper and collected as waste known as screen waste. Teven decided to focus on finding a way to reuse this material to create building blocks that could be used to create furniture and other objects.
"I saw a place to introduce this industrial waste back into the life of the people that create the waste without even knowing it," he told Dezeen.
To create the blocks of material for his Recycling Reject project, Teven shredded the screen waste and combined it with mineral-based pigments and a binding agent before pressure-compressing the result into a series of moulds.
"The process involves fairly simple steps, which are energy efficient and don’t use too many resources," said Teven. "The good thing is that the fibres that are not fit for paper manufacturing are filtered out during the pulping process. That means that the waste fibre is clean of any solids as well as any chemicals, food substances or ink."

He worked closely with the Smurfit Kappa recycling facility in Roermond, which provided ...