Would You Ever Sit on a Sony Playstation?
Pli Design Ltd, a sustainable furniture firm based in London, U.K., has come up with a practical solution to the increasingly common question of what to do with plastics from discarded consumer products. With the Reee Chair, comes the first chair back and seat made entirely of recycled plastic from a single source – nine old SONY PlayStation®2 cases go into each chair, in addition to the frame and legs made of powdercoated steel. Founder Christopher Pett, notes that each chair prevents 2.4 kg of plastic from being landfilled, the design accommodates ease-of-disassembly for maintenance and recycling, and all parts are locally sourced, within the U.K. In an example of what American companies could do with a similar initiative in place in the U.S., the PS cases are acquired and reprocessed under the guidelines of the European Commision’s Waste, Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive, which states that all electronics manufacturers must take responsibility for retrieving their products at end-of-life. The Reee Chair is ultimately the result of a discussion among Pli Design’s staff at the Eden Project suppliers conference in Cornwall, England, about how to effectively use high quality recycled plastic from discarded electronics. Upon determining old SONY PlayStation®2 consoles as their material source, Pli partnered with Sprout Design, a sustainable design consultancy, to develop the chair.
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