Positive Plastics

I a toolbox of plastics with a positive impact

Dit project is nu gearchiveerd en was onderdeel van DDW22

Dit project is onderdeel van:
Rethinking Plastic

Positive Plastics KIT 2

Positive Plastics

Positive Plastics, wil een verantwoorde kijk op kunststoffen onder de aandacht brengen bij ontwerpers, ingenieurs en productmanagers. Het is een digitaal platform en een fysieke kit, met samples van polymeren die veel milieuvriendelijker zijn dan virgin polymeren.

Could you imagine your life without plastic?

Not without plastic waste, but without products and services we have all grown to rely on in almost every aspect of our lives. Plastics is in construction, vehicles, medical devices, fashion...It seems that we can’t get along without this material, but we must eliminate its waste and negative impact.

Think positively about plastics!

There are many new grades on the market that are composed of natural materials or recycled materials, or both….they can replace traditional, fossil-fuel based plastics in every industry and product imaginable. Sadly, very few designers and engineers are familiar with them. The goal of Positive Plastics is to change that.

Not only the material, the design of the sample is unique.

Besides presenting new materials, Positive Plastics offers a novel design of the plastic sample. No longer a flat, square, piece of plastic that reveals little about the material’s characteristics. Their unique sample design portrays the material’s properties and its possible applications tangibly. Holding the Positive Plastics sample, one can easily discover various surface structure options, different wall thicknesses, corners, hinges, fluidity indication, draft angle, shrinkage, warpage…so many features in one piece.