The search for an alternative of hard and strong plastic. Focussing on one of the most harmful plastic waste in the ocean: disposable cutlery.
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Plastic disposable cutlery is one of the top ten plastics found on the shores of the ocean (Millieucentraal, 2020). Sea animals see those plastics as food. They eat it, get poisened or get internal injuries and die. This is a pressing problem in our world while there is an easy solution: hyperdiposable bioplastic.
By focussing on a spork, I came to a lot of different requirements for the material. A spork needs to be strong, not bendable and sharp. My process takes you through the search for the best fittable biobased and animal proof material for a fast degrading spork.
| "Of the 120 species of marine mammals on the Red List of Threatened Species, 54 have been documented to eat or entangle plastic." (BUND, 2019)
| “95% of the Fulmar in the North Sea has plastic in its stomach. On average, that is 34 pieces (total weight of 0.31 grams). Converted to humans, it is a plate full of plastic. ” (BUND, 2019)
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I am Anoush Mazloumian, student Communication & Multimedia design. This year, I attended the minor Makerslab to learn more about the criticals of being a maker. I leveled up my experience in innovative machines as 3D and RISO printers and finished a full research project on bioplastics focussed on cutlery disposables.
