The team of Levi Painter, Joshua Wilson, Annabel Rutherford-Levien and Al-Rafi Bandie passed the challenge. “I am very pleased and proud of my students’ effort, passion, and creative thinking,” Industrial Product Design Lecturer Hossein Najaf Zadeh says.
“Recycling the selected waste plastics presents a big challenge to New Zealand's recycling infrastructure. This will benefit from better uses of plastics, such as PLA (coffee cup covers and 3D printing filaments), high-density polypropylene (milk and water jugs), and low-density polyethene (from ropes to carpets and clothing).
“At the School of Product Design, we know the future of this planet rests in the hands of those we educate. Therefore, it is our duty to engage our practitioners with the creativity and responsibility of their design,” Zadeh says.
Watch the video of Levi, Annabel and Josh here.
