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This tableware comes from recycling discarded food utensils
generated as consumer and factory waste. It used to be thought
that the molding technology involved made it too difficult to
reuse clay and recycle utensils. Now, however, users and corporations,
designers, laboratories, and research institutes that are involved
in food utensil distribution or intermediate manufacturing processes
can collaborate in the creation of networks to recover and recycle
unneeded utensils. This is a step toward the effective use of
resources and reduction of the burden on the environment. The
process allows "Re-Waring" new utensils from old ones without
emitting any more carbon dioxide than conventional tableware
manufacturing. The product has been rated highly for the way
it seeks to fulfill the production region's social responsibility
through porcelain recycling and reuse while managing not to
overemphasize that aspect with tableware that achieves an ease
of use that is true to the needs of everyday life.
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New Frontier Category
01D11247
The Glass Recycling Network
Applicant: Crystal
clay.corp
Designer: CRYSTAL CLAY CORP. |
This recycling network has as its goal the conversion of discarded
glass to a renewable resource and the broadening of the resource
cycle. Companies sympathetic with the aims of recovery, recycling,
and remanufacturing joined forces, and used the lightweight
material G-Lite, which is made up mostly of glass cullets, to
create new products such as construction tiles, OA floors, and
outdoor furniture. Products are now being developed in accordance
with green purchasing methods, and there are also great expectations
for the economic effects of this resource cycle. It has also
become possible to reuse colored glass bottles, which have previously
merely been buried in landfills. We gave this project high marks
for the actual design of an integrated process and network that
handles everything from collection to reuse, for the construction
of a highly feasible new recycling industry system that moves
us closer to a sustainable society, and for the creation of
a new line of business. |
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