STEP 2 CASE STUDY No. 1 Elvis & Kresse
commodity brokers | eco-entrepreneurs | designers | eco-activists
[The Story]
Kresse Wesling has had a longstanding fascination with waste. From an early age she used to visit the dump with her father and she enjoyed school visits to sewage treatment plants and recycling centres. In 2005 she had a chance meeting with the London Fire Brigade, who showed her their waste fire hoses. Although they are made of very tough nitrile rubber, extruded around and through a nylon woven core, and some of them last up to 25 years, once damaged they are scrapped, which in practice means they are burnt or sent to landfill. Wesling was drawn to their texture and rich red colour: she thought they were beautiful. Though the ...
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