Page 14 - Clean India Journal Magazine June 2019 Issue

NEWS TRACK

IKEA to use ocean plastic in new
products
his autumn, the Musselblomma collection will hit
TIKEA stores in Italy and Spain. The collection is
made of recycled plastic, including PET plastic waste
caught in nets, partly collected by Spanish fishermen
in the Mediterranean Sea. After collection, the plastic
is collected in containers onshore in ports, and is then
cleaned, sorted, mechanically recycled and together
with recycled PET bottles made into yarn and fabric.
For every kg of PET plastic waste that can be used to
make the polyester fabric, another 9 kg of waste like
other plastics, metal, rubber, glass and other materials
is also taken out of the ocean.

The products – a bag, two cushion covers and a
tablecloth – are designed by the Spanish designer Inma In October 2018, IKEA became a member of
Bermúdez, with inspiration from the ocean. She has NextWave, an initiative that engages private companies to
created a simple and modern pattern with circles, squares integrate ocean-bound plastic into consumer products in a
and triangles combined with a shape that resembles a scalable manner. Earlier the same year, IKEA announced
fish. The colours in the collection are taken from the sea: its commitment to removing all single-use plastic
different greens and turquoise combined with coral that products by 2020 – as a step towards becoming a circular
brings light and happiness to the pattern. business by 2030.

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June 2019