Masuria is a local answer to a global problem.
The concept was born from the need to reuse the plastic waste generated by the family business producing ecological materials made out of reed (Phragmites australis). Masuria solves the problem of reusing polluted plasic - polypropylene ropes which are the base material of the design are not recyled in Poland because of organic shreds entangled in them. By using it to make plastic boards we create a new value, changing the local perception of waste: from polluting trash into useful resource. The second life we give to plastic can lead to another one, since all elements of the design are recyclable.
Masuria was created in Mazury - region of Poland known because of its beautiful, full of lakes landscape.
Testing possibilites of board creations out of plastic waste and reed impurities of different size lead to broad variety of expression. Each board we create is unique and because of low percentage of organic waste - it can be recycled.
Masuria bench made of plastic waste collected at Naturalex in Mazury region of Poland was created by Dorota Balewicz and Marta Orszt in collaboration
with Adam Krzemiński from Boomplastic.
