Int. Livestock Research Institute. PSI. Design For the Other 90% | Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Design for the Other 90% Solar Cooking. The Re~Cycle Trailer | Re~Cycle. This site is run by Re~Cycle, a charity shipping unwanted bikes to Africa. If you find the following information useful, please help by making a small contribution. We set out to design a robust, low cost, simple trailer made from globally available materials and unwanted bicycle parts. Any moderately technically minded person can construct this trailer. Ideally it should be welded together using a simple arc welder, or it can be assembled using nuts and bolts if no welder is available. It has been designed to carry heavy loads (up to 100kg) and has been refined to interfere as little as possible with the safe and comfortable handling of the bicycle.
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TU Delft - Plakkies. PlakkiesThe soles of the Plakkies are made from used car tyres. In South Africa, car tyres are dumped en masse and illegally incinerated, causing a devastating impact on the environment. Thanks to Plakkies, they can now be recycled. Shoe designer Jan Jansen and students of the faculty of Industrial Design Engineering came up with the design for the hip, socially responsible slipper.
The slipper's colourful patterns were designed by orphans from the slums around Durban. The drawings they feature are testament to the children's creativity and illustrate their dreams. All profits made from the sale of Plakkies will be donated in full to KidsRights' orphan projects in South Africa. Slipper factory The aim of the factory is to offer permanent employment in one of the most socially and economically neglected parts of South Africa.
The factory now employs 70 untrained slum residents, many of whom are infected with HIV. Plakkies - de slipper uit Zuid-Afrika. PLAKKIES commercial Factory.