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Super Local has won the Dutch Design Award for best product of 2023 with a project that creates colourful souvenirs from trash that was carried out of the Himalayas by mountain trekkers.
The Dutch design studio created two types of products that could make it possible to recycle all of the trash in Nepal's Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal, which is home to Mount Everest.
The first is a bag that allows people walking the mountain trails to carry trash back with them. The second is a series of mementoes made out of waste bottle caps.
The Dutch Design Award judges, who included designer Chris Kabel and Stedelijk Museum curator Amanda Pinatih, described From the Himalayas as "a complete project".
"'What goes up must come down' is a law of nature that has not applied to waste in the Himalayas for a long time," the judges said. "Super Local came up with a solution that is as poetic as it is pragmatic."
Super Local has won the Dutch Design Award for best product of 2023 with a project that creates colourful souvenirs from trash that was carried out of the Himalayas by mountain trekkers.
The Dutch design studio created two types of products that could make it possible to recycle all of the trash in Nepal's Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal, which is home to Mount Everest.
The first is a bag that allows people walking the mountain trails to carry trash back with them. The second is a series of mementoes made out of waste bottle caps.
The Dutch Design Award judges, who included designer Chris Kabel and Stedelijk Museum curator Amanda Pinatih, described From the Himalayas as "a complete project".
"'What goes up must come down' is a law of nature that has not applied to waste in the Himalayas for a long time," the judges said. "Super Local came up with a solution that is as poetic as it is pragmatic."
