During my internship at inEarnest Design Studio, we collaborated with &Open to create a joyful spinning top made entirely from reused milk carton. Turning everyday waste into playful, circular design, producing 250 spinning tops in-house.
Collaboration with: &Open studio & inEarnest Design Studio
The plastic is sorted, shredded and separated by color before being assembled one at time and baked in a special mold. Once they’ve emerged from the oven, they are polished and finished with a handle made of FSC-certified walnut wood.
The process is one-for-one: each spinning top repurposes one plastic bottle. No two spinners are the same, and each one has a carbon footprint of just 31g of Co2. If we’d done the same project using virgin plastic, each spinning top would have a carbon footprint of 104g of Co2 — over three
times as much.
times as much.
