NEXT GEN CIRCULARITY
COAIR
COAIR re-examines conventional production and waste disposal methods to push towards a material regenerative and circular world. Current environmental challenges of plastics include taking centuries to degrade and producing greenhouse gases when exposed to sunlight and heat.
Utilising waste into a beneficial product is a vital method towards replacing plastics. With COAIR, this is made possible using cooking methods with natural ingredients such as agar, glycerin, orange peel and charcoal. The high starch content in orange peels make it useful for producing bioplastics while charcoal helps absorbs odours and gases. When combined, it produces a biodegradable and compostable material.
The material can be used as an air purifier filter to aromatically freshen and filter the air in a small space for 3 months before being composted as fertiliser to provide nutrients for plants.
In a fundamental shift towards a closed-loop model, the raw materials are kept in use efficiently for as long as possible.
Wong Shi Ting
Wong Shi Ting, an industrial designer known for being a design rebel who imagines new lifestyles that improves the world through sustainability and eco-circularity. She channels her design rebelliousness through her own speculation of how future designs should be as her ideas strongly challenge conventional thinking and methods.