The rings of müll.club are made of household plastics, such as black containers and gold lids, resulting in a marble effect.
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Fine art graduate Charlie Rudkin-Wilson’s household items feature in luxury retailers such as Vogue Magazine and her partners.
But her coasters, rings and soap dishes are not made of precious metals or stones - Rudkin-Wilson melts discarded plastic containers such as shampoo bottles, empty pink-pink stain remover and bright yellow Nesquik shake pots, and then repaint them into objects with a unique marble effect.
The blue tones made of grocery store yogurt and porridge pots, serrated soap dish is sold for £16 (about $21) via the Rudkin-Wilson's Müll.Club website, with black and white single-use plastic cutlery and translucent food containers being the original material for £14.
Rudkin-Wilson, a former sustainability consultant for the television and film industry, said she has been "obsessed with" recycling for years and hopes to change society's perception of plastic as garbage.
"Part of the whole mission (Müll.Club) is changing the perception of plastic waste to look like a valuable material," she told CNBC via video call. Rudkin-Wilson wants her design to be attractive and functional, she said. “There are a lot of alchemy in colors that make sure these products are beautiful and they work,” she said.
For Rudkin-Wilson, the current method of recycling plastics does not work. According to the United Nations Environmental Program, about 36% of all plastics produced worldwide are used for packaging, and about 85% of them are used for landfills. Wrap (Waste and Resources Action Plan) said the UK has "dependence" on plastic exports from the UK, with 47% of plastic being recycled from the UK or export business being recycled abroad in 2021. (The data is based on packaging waste export recycling instructions, indicating that the company is obliged to issue it.)
Charlie Rudkin-Wilson founded Müll.Club to recycle household plastics into designer household goods.
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Rudkin-Wilson, who started a business during the coronavirus pandemic, started as a physical store in London selling fillable cosmetics and household products such as shampoos and laundry detergents. She added a recycling hub where she tried to turn old plastic bottles into household objects, the first of which was a soap dish, and now the best-selling product of Müll.club.
"I want something beautiful, but your soap doesn't stick with it," Rudkin-Wilson said. In addition to selling directly to consumers through the Müll.club website, Rudkin-Wilson's designs are also sold in independent stores and museum stores in the UK, as well as a few in the US
Müll.Club is now operated in a studio in a small town on the British coast, Margate. As CNBC spoke to her, Rudkin-Wilson sat in front of a pile of big red and purple candy bathtubs, emptying the chocolate and donating it by the public given to Moore. An online platform allows people to track the progress of garbage, including information about their donated weight and carbon savings.
This data helped müll.club attract large brands eager to understand its environmental impact. Müll.Club recycles over 32 kilograms (70.5 pounds) of plastic waste in toiletries company Lush to make 2,000 hair combs, and Rudkin-Wilson is working with luxury car brands to recycle plastic cap linings into products as automakers see “Dragon Records” on TV shows (Den's Den's den of British of British of British of British of Bristora dean''dragon's den of British of Bristand of Bistran tans tans tans tans shark tans tans tans tans shark tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans tans
Müll.Club's designs, such as this comb, soap tray and roller coaster, are published in Vogue magazine.
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According to an Instagram post on Instagram, Fortnum and Mason provide packaging waste to the company's unique turquoise, such as the company's unique turquoise, which Rudkin-Wilson recycles into products such as pallets and goats, while UK Vogue is called Müll.club. "Can you imagine a yogurt pan that one eats is popular...just a different form?" Rudkin-Wilson said.
Müll.Club will soon be brought into a more spacious studio where equipment can handle a lot of plastic, and Rudkin-Wilson hopes to start building works such as furniture that donates plastic. Her goal is to raise about £250,000 to help fund expansion and hopefully have a marketing budget to help acquire new customers.
Rudkin-Wilson said she hopes the company starts to take responsibility for plastic waste — both during the manufacturing process and after consumers complete their use of their products. "The industry will change, and there will be more private innovation businesses that will move the industry away from traditional Kerbside recycling," Rudkin-Wilson told CNBC via email.