Norwegian Trash
All photos from Otterøya by Marthe Thu
Norwegian Trash is a design studio focusing on recycling and repurposing waste. From fish farm trash to furniture.
We all know furniture should be purposeful and beautiful but it should also be sustainable. That is why we use 100% traceable marine waste and repurpose it into furniture with a unique past. The unique future is entirely up to you.
Norway is experiencing an economic boost from fish farming. This industry has become one of the largest and fastest growing sources of plastic waste in Norway today. Some of this plastic waste – nets, cages, pipes and lining bags – finds its way to NOPREC, one of the few facilities in Norway that actually makes a usable resource out of this type of plastic: plastic granulates. These plastic granulates is used to made the Resurface table.
Made from plastic no one wants
Norway seafood exports worth over 100 billion NOK each year. As aquaculture and large-scale industrial fishing grows, so does the pile of plastic garbage generated by this industry. Some of this plastic is collected to be recycled, but without a demand for black waste plastic, the economical incentive for establishing a circular value chain is missing. Resurface tries to create a demand for black waste plastic, and show that even this plastic can make beautiful, durable products.
Traceable from fishfarm to table
Feed pipes, fishing nets and fences. Resurface is made from 100% marine waste from the Norwegian fishing industry. You don’t have to take our word for it – scan the unique code under the table, and follow the journey from trash to treasure made possible with Blockchain technology from Empower Plastic.
Every piece is unique
As each plastic sheet is made individually, grinded post-consumer plastic is sprinkled into the melting process to give our furniture a unique surface – hence the name Resurface.
Hand built in Drammen, Norway
All Resurface furniture is CNC-milled and hand built by expert cabinet makers in Drammen, Norway.
