Putting Waste To The Test To Create New Materials

 

Global Opportunity Explorer

Dec 4th, 2018

 

MINIWIZ’s Trash Lab is reinventing waste into new materials for architecture, fashion, and and consumer goods. In doing so, they hope to turn problematic waste streams into the key materials in a more circular economy.

 

The Trash Lab, by MINIWIZ, is an innovation studio dedicated to the creation of new materials and consumer goods from varied waste materials. In the same way that different metals can be combined to create alloys with varying structural properties, so can different waste products. By combining unlikely waste products like PET bottles and rice husks, MINIWIZ’s Trash Lab is creating thousands of new composite materials, each with its own unique subset of properties for architecture, apparel, transportation, and more. Modularity is a central principle in their designs, so where possible their products are combined mechanically rather than being glued together with adhesives, in order to improve their reusability and recyclability.