Sustainable Design From Brighton & Hove | Recycled Plastic Homeware & Sheet Material

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RECYCLING WASTE PLASTIC SINCE 2015

We are Louise and Merl, Swedish sisters who have lived in the UK since we were little. We’ve always loved making things, and from a young age were taught to be resourceful, and to love and respect our environment.

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EXPLORE RECYCLED PLASTIC HOMEWARE

Handcrafted in our Brighton & Hove studio, using waste LDPE plastic from local businesses.

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Join us for a hands-on day of recycling plastic in our Hove workshop!

As well as being a practical day, you’ll also learn how we've merged traditional crafts with modern materials, and what sustainable design and materials actually mean.

Choose to make a serving board, vase, candleholder or a set of eight coasters.

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WE ALSO RUN CORPORATE TEAM-BUILDING DAYS, AND REMOTE WORKSHOPS. LEARN MORE...

Projects working with other talented craftspeople.

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Thanking the sunshine for bringing a splash of Spring today 🌞

Spot the recycled @sainsburys plastic bags in these Mandarin coasters 🍊

#recycledmaterials
#colourfulhome
#orangeandpurple
#springtable
#springcolours

Thanking the sunshine for bringing a splash of Spring today 🌞

Spot the recycled @sainsburys plastic bags in these Mandarin coasters 🍊

#recycledmaterials
#colourfulhome
#orangeandpurple
#springtable
#springcolours

A quarter of a tonne of single-use waste plastic went into these 19 tabletops - equivalent to around 10,000 bags for life! The waste came from local businesses in Brighton & Hove, including packaging from the bar industry, clothing retailers, and carpet and fabric shops.

We revisited @thetownhousealresford a few weeks ago for a quick spruce up after 3 years of heavy cafe & restaurant use. They’ve held up incredibly well, developing the same kind of patina that you would expect from a natural material like wood. We fixed some air pockets that had been there from the start (which we didn’t know how to fix at the time!), and tidied a few scuffed edges.

When it’s time - probably in another few years - we’ll come back and do a full restoration service, sanding the tops back and polishing them up to be good as new.

The beauty in this material is that we can repeat this restoration for decades to come, or even remelt the tabletops to be turned into something completely new!

Feauturing gorgeous forged recycled steel legs by @glyndeforge 👏

#sustainabledesign
#zerowastematerial
#circluareconomy
#sustainableinteriors
#marbletable

A quarter of a tonne of single-use waste plastic went into these 19 tabletops - equivalent to around 10,000 bags for life! The waste came from local businesses in Brighton & Hove, including packaging from the bar industry, clothing retailers, and carpet and fabric shops.

We revisited @thetownhousealresford a few weeks ago for a quick spruce up after 3 years of heavy cafe & restaurant use. They’ve held up incredibly well, developing the same kind of patina that you would expect from a natural material like wood. We fixed some air pockets that had been there from the start (which we didn’t know how to fix at the time!), and tidied a few scuffed edges.

When it’s time - probably in another few years - we’ll come back and do a full restoration service, sanding the tops back and polishing them up to be good as new.

The beauty in this material is that we can repeat this restoration for decades to come, or even remelt the tabletops to be turned into something completely new!

Feauturing gorgeous forged recycled steel legs by @glyndeforge 👏

#sustainabledesign
#zerowastematerial
#circluareconomy
#sustainableinteriors
#marbletable

Here's a little bench we made last year in collaboration with Thomas Gontar @glyndeforge. Will never tire of the recycled plastic and steel combo! Love the colours in this one.

Beautifully shot by @leodavut 📷

#recycledplastic
#recycledsteel
#ecomaterials
#sustainablemarble
#sustainablehome

Here's a little bench we made last year in collaboration with Thomas Gontar @glyndeforge. Will never tire of the recycled plastic and steel combo! Love the colours in this one.

Beautifully shot by @leodavut 📷

#recycledplastic
#recycledsteel
#ecomaterials
#sustainablemarble
#sustainablehome

Here's a little video of us melting down some colour tests and mixing the colour smooth - did not expect them to go this gorgeous aubergine colour!

It's been about a year now since we got our roll mills, and it's safe to say that these guys have saved our arms and backs from a lot of unnecessary manual labour! We used to colour mix all of our plastic by hand, and mixing anything between 1 - 20kg would take literally all day, because each portion had to be kneaded in multiple rounds with waiting for it to remelt in between. Now, we can mix up to around 1.5kg in minutes 🥲 plus, it's fun, and very, very satisfying.

There are so many creative, time consuming stages of our process that need to be done by hand (that we would never want a machine to do for us) so it's been life changing to have help with this laborious part of the process. It's actually put the fun back into creating new colour recipes, as it's so quick to tweak them, and we're not exhausting ourselves in the process.

Hope your eyes enjoy this as much as ours do!

#recycledplastic
#colourmixing
#processvideos
#satisfyingprocess
#sustainablematerial

Here's a little video of us melting down some colour tests and mixing the colour smooth - did not expect them to go this gorgeous aubergine colour!

It's been about a year now since we got our roll mills, and it's safe to say that these guys have saved our arms and backs from a lot of unnecessary manual labour! We used to colour mix all of our plastic by hand, and mixing anything between 1 - 20kg would take literally all day, because each portion had to be kneaded in multiple rounds with waiting for it to remelt in between. Now, we can mix up to around 1.5kg in minutes 🥲 plus, it's fun, and very, very satisfying.

There are so many creative, time consuming stages of our process that need to be done by hand (that we would never want a machine to do for us) so it's been life changing to have help with this laborious part of the process. It's actually put the fun back into creating new colour recipes, as it's so quick to tweak them, and we're not exhausting ourselves in the process.

Hope your eyes enjoy this as much as ours do!

#recycledplastic
#colourmixing
#processvideos
#satisfyingprocess
#sustainablematerial

Last summer we had the pleasure of working with @oliviaoutred studio to make a bespoke dining tabletop for her client in our colourway Sand Peony. This piece was our largest tabletop to date at 2400 x 1150mm and 30mm thickness, and it weighs a whopping 76kg.. that's about 5500 plastic bags!

This was a real moment for us - we've always wanted to make big tabletops like this!

Not even including prepping all the plastic, it took a whole month and four test presses to get it right: tweaking the marbling, as well as the formation and weights of the individual masses of plastic on the bed of the press... but finally we did it!!

We are so pleased to finally share this with you all, and look back on the epic journey.

Thanks to Olivia and her wonderful team, and of course the lovely clients 💚♻️

#recycledplastic
#marbletable
#sustainabledesign
#sustainablefurniture
#ecofurniture

Last summer we had the pleasure of working with @oliviaoutred studio to make a bespoke dining tabletop for her client in our colourway Sand Peony. This piece was our largest tabletop to date at 2400 x 1150mm and 30mm thickness, and it weighs a whopping 76kg.. that's about 5500 plastic bags!

This was a real moment for us - we've always wanted to make big tabletops like this!

Not even including prepping all the plastic, it took a whole month and four test presses to get it right: tweaking the marbling, as well as the formation and weights of the individual masses of plastic on the bed of the press... but finally we did it!!

We are so pleased to finally share this with you all, and look back on the epic journey.

Thanks to Olivia and her wonderful team, and of course the lovely clients 💚♻️

#recycledplastic
#marbletable
#sustainabledesign
#sustainablefurniture
#ecofurniture

Happy to share another W&M & Thomas Gontar @glyndeforge collab - some bar stools, sitting pretty in their new home.

Beautiful shots by the great @leodavut 🙏🏻

Happy to share another W&M & Thomas Gontar @glyndeforge collab - some bar stools, sitting pretty in their new home.

Beautiful shots by the great @leodavut 🙏🏻

GLASS POPPY BACK IN STOCK ♥️

Anyone needing last minute pressies, if you choose express delivery this weekend they will still get to you in time!

Hope everyone has a fabulous Christmas and Haaaappy New Year ✨

GLASS POPPY BACK IN STOCK ♥️

Anyone needing last minute pressies, if you choose express delivery this weekend they will still get to you in time!

Hope everyone has a fabulous Christmas and Haaaappy New Year ✨

TORTOISESHELL WATERMELON - how juicy are these! One of our all-time favourite colour combinations: not very seasonal, but coasters are not just for Christmas.

DM us if you would like some, as they won't be going on our website just yet 🍉 we also have cute little gift boxes if they're a present for someone!

Cut off dates for delivery in time for Christmas are:
Friday 19th by 9am - standard
Monday 22nd by 4pm - express 🎄

TORTOISESHELL WATERMELON - how juicy are these! One of our all-time favourite colour combinations: not very seasonal, but coasters are not just for Christmas.

DM us if you would like some, as they won't be going on our website just yet 🍉 we also have cute little gift boxes if they're a present for someone!

Cut off dates for delivery in time for Christmas are:
Friday 19th by 9am - standard
Monday 22nd by 4pm - express 🎄

ANGELA'S OF MARGATE TABLETOPS

Our very first tabletop project back in 2017 was for the opening of this brilliant sustainable seafood restaurant over in the seaside town of Margate, Kent, founded by Lee & Charlotte, and head chef Rob.

This project was special in many ways: not just because these were the first tabletops we ever made, but this was also when I, Louise, first roped my sister Merl into the strange world of plastic recycling. I needed a lot of help to tackle the 210kg of waste plastic for this project, and even though we had always wanted to work together somehow, this was the first time Merl took her hand to working with the plastic, and, luckily, she absolutely loved it. Just a few months later she quit her job and we formed Weez & Merl!

After nearly 8 years years of use, Lee messaged us and said the tables could do with a refurb. Even though they were beautiful, there were a lot of things we didn't know when we made them all those years ago, so there were airpockets and cracks that needed filling - actually, a complete resurfacing was needed - it really was a massive challenge to fix them. But after a lot of hard work, the tables have now entered into their second phase of life and are back in their home at Angela's looking better than ever.

Here are a few pics we took of the tables when we went over to Margate this weekend. This was the first time we've visited, and we were treated to the most delicious, local, sustainable sea food we have ever eaten, both at Angela's, and their sister small-plates seafood bar Dory's round the corner. If you can go, we could not recommend them highly enough! We also got to stay in Angela's gorgeous rooms above the restaurant, which are kitted out with eco-concious materials top-to-toe and made the whole trip even more special.

We definitely won't wait another 8 years for our next visit to Margate!! Thank you so much to Lee & Charlotte and their fab teams at @angelas_of_margate and @dorys_of_margate for a fantastic few days. And more importantly, thank you for taking a chance on recycled plastic all those years ago!

#reunion
#recycledplastic
#recycledtabletop
#tabletops
#sustainablerestaurant
#marble

ANGELA'S OF MARGATE TABLETOPS

Our very first tabletop project back in 2017 was for the opening of this brilliant sustainable seafood restaurant over in the seaside town of Margate, Kent, founded by Lee & Charlotte, and head chef Rob.

This project was special in many ways: not just because these were the first tabletops we ever made, but this was also when I, Louise, first roped my sister Merl into the strange world of plastic recycling. I needed a lot of help to tackle the 210kg of waste plastic for this project, and even though we had always wanted to work together somehow, this was the first time Merl took her hand to working with the plastic, and, luckily, she absolutely loved it. Just a few months later she quit her job and we formed Weez & Merl!

After nearly 8 years years of use, Lee messaged us and said the tables could do with a refurb. Even though they were beautiful, there were a lot of things we didn't know when we made them all those years ago, so there were airpockets and cracks that needed filling - actually, a complete resurfacing was needed - it really was a massive challenge to fix them. But after a lot of hard work, the tables have now entered into their second phase of life and are back in their home at Angela's looking better than ever.

Here are a few pics we took of the tables when we went over to Margate this weekend. This was the first time we've visited, and we were treated to the most delicious, local, sustainable sea food we have ever eaten, both at Angela's, and their sister small-plates seafood bar Dory's round the corner. If you can go, we could not recommend them highly enough! We also got to stay in Angela's gorgeous rooms above the restaurant, which are kitted out with eco-concious materials top-to-toe and made the whole trip even more special.

We definitely won't wait another 8 years for our next visit to Margate!! Thank you so much to Lee & Charlotte and their fab teams at @angelas_of_margate and @dorys_of_margate for a fantastic few days. And more importantly, thank you for taking a chance on recycled plastic all those years ago!

#reunion
#recycledplastic
#recycledtabletop
#tabletops
#sustainablerestaurant
#marble

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