Tag: plastic
Samsung to replace plastic packaging with sustainable materials
Samsung has announced it is to begin replacing plastic packaging materials with “environmentally sustainable elements”. The South Korean technology giant, which is the world’s largest smartphone manufacturer, said it would start to substitute plastic for recycled and “bio-based” plastics and paper during the first half of this year. The company said the trays used for…
Fully Loaded – more bang for your buck
The designer calls this chair “Fully Loaded”, and says it’s a ‘unique dichotomy of comfort and demise’. It’s made of 388 shotgun shells, already fired, sadly. You can pick from black, green, blue, red and copper shells, and the brass is covered with a coat of varnish to prevent tarnishing.
The chair is currently being built to order. No word how much it costs, but I suspect we’re not talking tens of pounds here – more like hundreds.
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This iPhone's a brick – a pile of LEGO bricks
Nathan Sawaya is a LEGO artist who has constructed a replica of the iPhone from a pile of plastic bricks. He obviously thinks fairly highly of his work, too, as he's charging $399 for the model – the same…
