Skip to main content

Sumo diapers made from seaweed, because why not?


Most disposable baby diapers end up in landfills and make up several million tons of waste every year. Even biodegradable nappies are not 100% eco-friendly. It could take several years and even decades for the biodegradable bits of the underwear to actually decompose.

In an ideal world, we'd all use lampin—a washable cotton type cloth, fastened with safety pins. But it doesn't keep wetness away from the skin, and it tends to leak. The good news is that there's a better alternative: Sumo diapers.

Designed by Luisa Kahlfeldt, Sumo is made of antibacterial, absorbent, and biodegradable fabric that is made out of seaweed and eucalyptus. It's also the first mono-material nappy, making it ideal for recycling.

Luisa's design will now be competing against 19 other innovations for this year's final winner of the James Dyson Awards, such as Australia's Gekko Traxx and the Philippines' AirDisc Cooling Technologies.
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

This installation puts painting robots to shame

In the courtyard of London's Victoria & Albert Museum stands the Elytra Filament Pavilion , a massive glass and carbon fiber canopy fabricated by robots. It is inspired by the fibrous structures of flying beetles and will be open until November in the John Madejski Garden. The futuristic shelter is the brainchild of experimental architect Achim Menges, along with collaborators Moritz Dörstelmann, Jan Knippers and Thomas Auer. While the structure currently measures 200 square meters in size, it will gradually grow bigger overtime, depending on how visitors interact with it.
Post a Comment
Read more

Anthill Art

Turns out you can make something pretty cool when you pour boiling, liquid metal on top of an anthill. Harsh for the ants, yes, but according to Anthill Art , these insects are "harmful to the environment and their nests are exterminated by the millions in the United States using poisons, gasoline and fire, boiling water, and very rarely molten aluminum."
Post a Comment
Read more

'Scrap Floats' by Aggie Zed

Virginia-based artist Aggie Zed creates fascinating ceramic and mixed media sculptures, paints excellent visual art on paper and draws rather well. In the art world we would call her a triple threat and she does it all very well. There's plenty of her work I wanted to feature here, but I'd rather leave you to lurk around her website and instead I'll focus your attention to her Scrap Floats . These sculptures are comprised of animals, human parts, and other machine-like scraps. The figures are striking in both their surrealism and their humility: disfigured humans sprout wings, fish live out of water, and horses have intricately arranged metal frames for bodies. They're a little bit steampunk, a little bit classical and a whole lot intriguing. Aggie received a BFA in sculpture and painting from the University of South Carolina. She currently lives with her husband in Gordonsville where she keeps animals in her life, especially chickens, which defy anthropomorphis...
Post a Comment
Read more