Recycling Cardboard | Recycling Crafts

Recycling Cardboard

Incessant movement to make life more eco-friendly furniture designers are challenged. Today more and more innovative furniture design with a more environmentally friendly materials.

This furniture usually uses recycled material or can be recycled so it does not produce heaps of rubbish that is getting full.

In France, an organization called La Compagnie Bleuzen try to move people to use environmentally friendly furniture.

This nonprofit organization specializing its activities to make craft items. One product that was developing at this time is furniture made from cardboard.

Furniture made from cardboard that is the work of French designer who became a member of La Compagnie Bleuzen. They menocba various innovations made from cardboard or construction paper and referred to himself as cartonnistes.

One designer who became the driving is Eric Guiomar. He creates a variety of furniture such as bookcases, desks, and chairs with cardboard materials.

Recycling Cardboard

Cardboard materials that are considered less powerful to be used as furniture. But thanks to the cold hands of Guiomar et al, cardboard furniture can appear to be strong and durable.

They use special techniques to create a strong structure to withstand the load of furniture. Boxes of materials had sought a very thick so it does not easily bend when loaded.

The designers are also very concerned about the varied forms of furniture. They make an unconventional design. Both the shape and color.

Eg circular bookshelf. There are also shelves books that inspired the design of oriental Chinese symbol of yin and yang. While many furniture chairs and tables that apply retro or vintage style with bright colors.

But some of cardboard Items That Cannot Be Recycled, these are :

    * Pizza boxes (grease contamination)
    * Boxes that have not been flattened and emptied out
    * Wet boxes

Some of the work of Eric Guiomar in cardboard recycling.

Creation of Eric Guiomar