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Curious, Functional, Recycled
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|Issue 125
What inspired Anurag Bhandari was a single figure: 36,000 tonnes of solid waste, produced in the largest cities of India each day.
It’s a significant amount—significant enough to make the furniture designer stop and wonder if things could be done differently. What if instead of throwing out perfectly usable objects and materials, we repurposed them to create something new and exciting?
This story is from the Issue 125 edition of d+a.
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