{"id":61982,"date":"2019-04-04T07:20:55","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T05:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=61982"},"modified":"2019-04-01T12:41:34","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T10:41:34","slug":"reducing-animal-waste-bioplastic-skin-valdis-steinarsdottirs-art-of-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/reducing-animal-waste-bioplastic-skin-valdis-steinarsdottirs-art-of-sustainability\/","title":{"rendered":"Reducing Animal Waste, Bioplastic Skin: Vald\u00eds Steinarsd\u00f3ttir\u2019s Art Of Sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following the trends of last year\u2014when she presented a series of clothing and furniture made of horse hides\u2014designer Vald\u00eds Steinarsd\u00f3ttir now tackles the issue of waste generated in the meat and plastic industries. \u2018Bioplastic Skin<\/a>\u2019, her new invention, which will be presented at this year\u2019s DesignMarch<\/a>, uses animal hides to create a plastic-like material which can then be used to package meat products from the same animal.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought it was kind of poetic. I thought meat wrapping would suit it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe idea started when I was studying at the Icelandic Academy Of The Arts in the product design department,\u201d explains the designer. While there, Vald\u00eds began to look at the amount of waste produced by the consumption of horses.<\/p>\n

See, when we get meat from animals, there are a number of less desirable byproducts that go unused or even discarded. Vald\u00eds took these byproducts, began to experiment with them, and discovered that there were quite a number of applications that could be derived from the material.<\/p>\n

The poetry of cycles<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought it was kind of poetic. I thought meat wrapping would suit it,\u201d Vald\u00eds explains, as she talks about the haunting prose of her project. That is, of course, the idea of putting an animal back into its own skin in order for it to be eaten. To her, this process is incredibly natural, but from an outside perspective, it might appear to be rather strange.<\/p>\n

But because of that, Bioplastic Skin forces you to question your own personal beliefs and morals regarding the meat industry. It\u2019s a project that provokes a reaction, and that reaction itself is what teaches you. There is a strong educational value to this, as it shines a light on the wasteful nature of our society.<\/p>\n

The process of making the biodegradable packaging involves boiling the hides to collect the collagen, a structural protein. \u201cFor many centuries, we have been making wood glue with this method,\u201d Vald\u00eds explains. She took this process and tweaked it in order to create the plastic-like material. Nowadays, she is even able to use variations of her recipe to create hard and soft plastics to suit the needs of the product it would be used in.<\/p>\n

One eye on the future<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is just one possibility of so many with biodegradable plastic,\u201d Vald\u00eds concludes confidently. She strongly believes that Bioplastic Skin, as well as biodegradable plastics in general, have a strong future. While she is currently unsure whether she will take this project further, she\u2019s confident that it has the potential to inspire others. Her passion and enthusiasm, though, shines through in all she does. And while a passion for animal waste might seem bizarre to others, it just might be the solution the world has been looking for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following the trends of last year\u2014when she presented a series of clothing and furniture made of horse hides\u2014designer Vald\u00eds Steinarsd\u00f3ttir now tackles the issue of waste generated in the meat and plastic industries. \u2018Bioplastic Skin\u2019, her new invention, which will be presented at this year\u2019s DesignMarch, uses animal hides to create a plastic-like material which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[5847,7105],"supplier":[12080,15609],"class_list":["post-61982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-bioplastics","tag-packaging","supplier-iceland-academy-of-the-arts-listahaskoli-islands","supplier-valdis-steinarsdottir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61982"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=61982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}