Visit us at Future Leap where we have installed an interactive CD shredding experience made from sustainably sourced materials. The exhibition demonstrates a circular economy model that can be installed within a local community, showing techniques of how we turn the world's unwanted and forgotten CDs into innovative and unique composite materials and products.
This space also provides the public with a place where they can sustainably dispose of their old CDs while experiencing the methods of repurposing the material. We have collection boxes for both CDs and CD cases ready to be transformed into beautiful furniture and fashion goods. Join us in-person to see our products, discover more about the unique material we make and understand our visions for the future of reprocessing what would usually be a harmful waste.
If you are unable to make it in person, please click here to view our infographic explaining the step-by-step process of how we process and repurpose unwanted CDs into RE-CD. We currently produce a select range of products using the unique material such as bar stools, studio stools, side tables, earrings, and soap stands. While we are focusing on our own designs and manufacturing, we are also extremely excited to explore new ideas and avenues for the material by working in collaboration with designers, producing individual bespoke items and stocking raw sheets of the material. Please get in touch at info@reviveinnovations.design if you wish to work alongside us.
Or visit our website at www.reviveinnovations.design RE-CD is hard-wearing, easily manufacturable, and resistant to impact and temperature. The smooth surface can be effortlessly maintained, making interior products and displays ideal applications. It can be easily worked on, by hand or with industrial machinery. Over the last 40 years, it is estimated that 300 billion CDs have been made worldwide, all produced from a non-conventionally recycled material (polycarbonate) leading to most waste CDs ending up in landfill sites where they spend over 1 million years biodegrading.
Our mission is to create localised circular economy recycling systems that improve our environment, then inspire people to purchase and use recycled items by creating beautifully unique and sustainable furniture, home accessories and fashion items. We are reshaping the mindset of current and future generations by teaching the impact of pollution on the environment and demonstrating how we turn this ‘waste’ into practical and versatile material.
We are passionate about helping transform and repurpose more of Bristol business and household waste streams. We have set up a new Facebook network ‘Bristol Recycling Network’, which aims to allow localised circular economies to form between local organisations that either create or utilise waste locally. It is a platform that enables people to source useful ‘waste’ materials, reducing the number of materials that needlessly end up in landfill.
We encourage all local businesses and individuals who are either looking to recycle their waste materials or source recycled materials for a project to join our network here.