With great pleasure, the municipality of Wassenaar received two circular sheep from circular office furnisher TRIBOO last Friday. One was placed in the entrance of the municipal office and the other in Raadhuis de Paauw. The sheep is the name for a circular 3D printed planter made of 100% waste.
With great pleasure, the municipality of Wassenaar received two circular sheep from circular office furnisher TRIBOO last Friday. One was placed in the entrance of the municipal office and the other in Raadhuis de Paauw. The sheep is the name of a circular 3D printed planter made of 100% waste. With this, the municipality is taking a concrete step towards turning worthless waste into valuable circular products. With the arrival of the two white sheep, the circular economy and waste-free society becomes visible to everyone in our buildings.
The raw materials used to make White Sheep consist 100% of old refrigerators, pressed household waste and textiles that would normally go into the incinerator. These are all raw materials that have ended up on the rubbish dump. The pot is 3D printed and the legs of the sheep are frictionally attached to the pot. This makes the materials easy to detach and 100% reusable in mono-flows.
With upcycling techniques, 56 kilos of plastic waste have been transformed into two high-profile circular planters. Every year, enormous quantities of refrigerators are discarded. They form a large stream of waste in our society. Because the inside of the refrigerator consists of high-quality plastic, which may come into contact with food, they can be completely reused. The granulate serves as raw material for the planter. It therefore consists of 100% recycled content. This prevents waste and no new raw materials have been used.
The waste-free society and circular economy will be made visible in the municipality's buildings in a high-profile manner. The white sheep can be used alone or as a flock to green the building. As a divider between workplaces, it ensures that enough oxygen is available for the brain and that harmful substances such as FORMALDEHYDE are absorbed.
Employees talk about it, how can a refrigerator become a plant pot? Customers talk about it, it is super fun to show what you are doing as a municipality. And in the evening at the table at home it is also a nice story to share with your children. How mum or dad's organisation deals differently with raw materials and how we are more economical with our environment.
By consciously opting for the circular products of TRIBOO, the Municipality of Wassenaar has changed worthless waste into valuable circular products. This is a concrete step towards preventing these raw materials from ending up in the ground, in the sea or in an incinerator. If more organisations do the same, we make an impact and create an outlet for the raw materials that are treated as waste. Then the raw materials are stored instead of being wasted.
No new raw materials have been extracted from the earth, but what we have already extracted has been used. With every sheep that finds its way into a building, the waste mountain is smaller and we reduce CO2.
The interior of the building will be more beautiful than ever and high-quality raw materials will be stored. Later, the raw materials can be reused to make circular products.
The sheep is a circular product that is made in the Netherlands. By producing locally and using local waste streams, we provide a strong proposition that improves employment in the Netherlands. We reduce CO2 emissions through efficient production techniques and low mileage. We store the valuable fibres in high-quality circular products.
When the sheep are no longer used, TRIBOO continues to use them. At the end of its lifecycle, TRIBOO pays back the raw material value of the product and becomes the owner of the raw materials again. Together we make sure they are not thrown away anymore and TRIBOO turns them into other circular products!
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