Reprocessing

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Time to show the circular richness of production waste while closing the loop on big scale!

While being asked to make new products out of PU waste material, I decided that it would be better to find ways to reuse the pristine PU waste material in the original production process. Out of my experiments and eventual collaboration with the company UNILIN, I developed two innovative approaches; “adding” and “pressing”.  These new circular production methods are created by reusing a waste stream of insulation material as raw materials. With the adding method 10% of PU waste is added into the production process. Test results have shown that the end product is of the same, high quality. We even discovered the waste materials are acting as a stabiliser, resulting in panels that have considerably less tendency to warp! With the pressing method we’re using pressed PU flakes combined with binding material. Resulting into a new insulation material existing out of 95% of waste material. This new material can be used in prefabricated insulation panels.

This design approach shows how waste can flow back into production as new material, while adding value to the cycle.

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