Turning Taiwan's trash into business

 

United Nation

Sep 15th, 2016

 

Plastic bottle pavilions and urban-mined glasses; Polli-Brick and Eco-Morph and the waste that it slashes; upcycled film theatres and recycled plane wings; these are a few of my favourite things… made from trash.

 

For over ten years Taiwan-based ‘closed-loop’ firm MINIWIZ has been building its business out of upcycling, taking old materials and recycling them into something new – such as iconic government buildings, prestigious retail interiors, industrial-scale recycling, major marketing installations and high performance eyewear and furniture – all under the leadership wings of Arthur Huang. The designer, architect and self-professed “do-er” believes it’s wise to minimise.