We have succeeded in making two of our core products from recycled fishing nets. Manga Street’s Scoop Planter and Scoopi Seat can now also be made from repurposed plastic from fishing nets and trawls.
“It was images of dead sea turtles and dolphins entangled in fishing nets and melting icebergs that made me join the project says Julie Storm. In 2019 I signed Manga Street up to the Ocean Plastic Forum, which is a partnership of Danish organizations, companies, NGO’s and research institutions working ambitiously to prevent and remove plastic from the world’s oceans. In this forum, I quickly got in touch with a company which already produces plastic from used fishing nets, trawls and ropes that come from ports, net manufacturers and plastic collectors globally. However, it soon became clear that the plastic did not have the properties needed for rotational molding, which is the method of Scoop and Scoopi’s form of production. we have now achieved a plastic composition that has basically the same properties as the primary plastic that we usually use.
During this development work, it has always been central to me that the Scoop and Scoopi products retained their design value and still had the appearance of high-end design products, and I think we have succeeded surprisingly well. The result is actually astonishingly good.” Says designer Julie Storm