I hate Philippe Starck

So much about this annoys me. Starck is a hypocrite full of contradictions, especially considering his comments on the recent Design for Life programme. Clean water access campaign, OLD (but yesyes still needed)! ... Solving this through PLASTIC bottles of water for 5 Euros.... AGHHHH!

OK rant over.

interesting additions

The plain ugly:



The OCD workshop (not necessarily a bad thing...)



A bit done to death:


Now for some classics, a butter churn:


A meat mincer that screws onto a glass jar


An a site with a name that says it all "naturemoms". I warn you...

glass facts

Some interesting notes discovered while researching glass as a product:

- Recycled glass melts at a lower point than virgin glass, therefore reducing energy required

- Glass takes 1 million years to break down naturally

- Glass is sorted into it's different colours for recycling by colour sensitive computrer recognition and then each bit is separated by air jets

- When recycling glass it is sorted into only three colours; clear, brown and gree. Blue glass cannot be recycled.

- If the glass is contaminated it can be used in road construction and sandblasting.

- Just one piece of non-reusable glass the size of a 20 cent piece from light bulbs, wine glasses, ceramic plates, mirrors or window glass can stop a whole tonne of glass bottles and jars from being recycled

- Australia consumes about 850,000 tonnes of glass a year but only 350,000 tonnes is recovered for recycling. That's around 1.4 billion bottles diverted away from landfill.

- Recycled glass can make up to 40% of total in a furnace and can be recycled infinite times.

- Broken drinking glasses, vases and leaded glasses cannot be used in closed loop glass recycling.

glass

intensive to produce. it possesses qualities that are admired in precious materials. translucent, the clarity of diamonds and other such stones. it too comes from the earth but can it re-enter it? better than plastic, if treated carefully. we all have a collection of glass.

discarded survey

- PET water bottle lids
- milk bottle lid and rings
- bread bag clips
- film canisters
- old contact lens cases
- toilet paper roll
- old lip balm pots
- medical and vitamin tablet bottles
- medical tablet blister packs
- lost USB lid
- jam jars
- beer bottles
- pens and parts
- sticky tape spools
- sewing thread spools
- wine bottle
...

these are quite permanent things. energy has gone into making them and must be required to transform them. they have lived in our lives for a period of time and then we discard them.