By Jasmin Malik Chua, Source: Ecouterre

Wish sorting your plastic empties was more…glamorous? Hungarian designer Kovács Apor imagines a future where we routinely transform plastic bottles into clothes, right in the comfort of our homes. “PETE,”, one of six finalists in this year’s Electrolux Design Lab is a wall-mounted household appliance that Apor conceived as a way to reduce plastic waste. The idea first struck him on a rainy-day excursion to Romania’s Danube Delta, whose churning waters left a mass of discarded plastic bottles in their wake.

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