![]() ![]() News from Dezeen Events Guide, a listings guide covering the leading design-related events taking place around the world. News about our Dezeen Awards programme, including entry deadlines and announcements. Dezeen Jobsĭaily updates on the latest design and architecture vacancies advertised on Dezeen Jobs. Dezeen DailyĪ daily newsletter containing the latest stories from Dezeen. Plus occasional updates on Dezeen’s services and breaking news. Sent every Tuesday and containing a selection of the most important news highlights. Sent every Thursday and featuring a selection of the best reader comments and most talked-about stories. Our most popular newsletter, formerly known as Dezeen Weekly. Other attempts to mitigate the environmental impact of plastic PPE have seen designers turn discarded masks into stools and sofas, while Alice Potts combined food waste with flowers from London parks to create a series of bioplastic face shields. "After weeks of tripping over all the blue disposable face masks on the street, I woke up one morning to the idea of a biodegradable mask with flower seeds in it – happy Earth, happy bees, happy nature, happy people." "In all the years that I have been working as a graphic designer, I have also polluted the earth with designing for print and packaging, so I wanted to give something back," she said. She also hopes to offset her personal contribution to the issue as a virtue of being a graphic designer for almost a decade and working for consumer goods giant Unilever, which creates 70,000 tonnes of plastic pollution every year, covering more than 11 football pitches every day. "We are looking into how we can set up local productions in other countries and continents, of course using native seeds." The ear loops are made from spun sheep's woolĭe Groot-Pons established the brand as a response to the rise in single-use plastic pollution due to the coronavirus pandemic, which saw an estimated 129 billion face masks used every month across the world in 2020. "Due to the seeds we use currently, we can only ship the Marie Bee Bloom masks in Europe," she explained. Related story Alice Potts makes bioplastic face shields from food wasteĭe Groot-Pons hopes to expand the brand internationally with seeds that are appropriate and beneficial to the various local ecosystems. The logo printed on the outside is rendered in biodegradable ink, which she claims contains no harmful chemicals, while the ear loops are made from spun sheep's wool. ![]() "The variant I was looking for had to be thin so that it could be folded and carried well, which I found in rice paper."Īccording to de Groot-Pons, the seeded paper offer as much protection as other homemade masks. "I was already familiar with growth paper, a paper that contains seeds but is often thick and used for cards or invitations," said the designer. The seeds will grow into a small patch of wildflowers These seeds are fixed in place using a homemade adhesive of potato starch and water, wedged between two sheets of rice paper. The seed mix contains seven different Dutch wildflowers, such as daisies, petunias, cornflowers and delicate baby's breath. "Of course it decomposes but I don't want to encourage people to throw the masks away." " Marie Bee Bloom is about 'blooming the world', so the intention is really to plant the mask," the brand's founder Marianne de Groot-Pons told Dezeen.
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