Pitts River Museum

I had an opportunity to go to Pitts River Museum in Oxford.
There were enormous kinds of collections in the museum and I found there was a collection of recycling.

A juice bottle used as a vase. Simple recycling. With can made flowers.

 A basket made of fibre bound with foil and crisp package.

A music instrument made of olive oil tin.

A watering can made of food tin.

A kettle made from melted plastic.

Most of them are made by simple process and created in developing countries. Although there is no latest technology, idea of sustainability is on action when it is in needs.

Uniqlo's recycling policy

When I was researching about Uniqlo for the previous post, I found that Uniqlo is constantly doing recycling of their own clothes by donating them to many countries where people need more clothes which I think is truly amazing. Not just as a material but they are extending their clothes' lives as clothes, it could be done because their products have the quality to last as good things to wear.
I think their innovation in fabric brought them ultimate sustainability and allow them to take a responsibility as a mass fashion production.

http://vimeo.com/29081709

http://www.uniqlo.com/en/csr/recycle/

Workshop

Today we had a workshop thinking about alternatives of what we'd created before.

Graphic design group(me and Olivia) talked about Wooden Dingbats which is a sign made of MDF board.

I thought I understood the idea of sustainability but actually it was really hard to think about how this wooden sign could be sustainable. We focused on the material itself and found an alternative called ECO board (http://www.eco-boards.eu/) which is strong as MDF but made from waste of agricultural products. I don't think this makes the wooden sign itself sustainable but at least if we use the recycled material it could reduce the number of trees being cut down.

It was interesting to think about the process how this material is made and came from where and also think about eco-friendly alternatives.