Business Idea: Lamps made from old objects
Author: Clay Hillary
Ecological awareness with the vintage trend in decoration is resulting in a revaluation of such objects just before leaving in the street so that they are carrying a bottle. This, in turn, led to recycling, for example, obsolete appliances, adding beauty to regain its functional utility.
Norberto Pablo Ferreiro and Gurzi are two friends who discovered the business idea of washing machine drums, those perfect cylinders with those who discovered they can manufacture lamps and some furniture.
The entrepreneur was already thinking of how to recycle washing machine drums and decorative objects, and even though his partner at first it took a bit of a joke, the idea began to bear fruit soon. “We started to test the ideas I already had to arm lamps with it and gave us results very quickly. We really enjoyed the play with light and colors. This led us to have to determine if what we were doing was recycling or what. We ended up calling him ‘redefinition of objects’ “he explains.
Clients contact them via the website, which can be said that Trash Co. works on demand. This includes also take inputs supplied by customers, instead of throwing a dryer they give it to transform it into an object of decoration.
Currently, they also do some furniture such as chairs or tables with the same input light. I entered the siphon as raw material for making lamps.