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Waste Age review: Can good design save the planet from waste?

By Graham Lawton

10 November 2021

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This is a VW Beetle, when broken into the materials it is made from

Felix Speller

Exhibition

Design Museum, London

Until 20 February 2022

ONE of the most striking displays in the timely and eye-opening exhibition Waste Age is an array of 41 cubic and rectangular blocks made of various materials, including steel, rubber, glass, chromium, graphite, horsehair, plastics, oil and brake fluid. The last two hold clues as to the origin of the materials: they all used to be a Volkswagen Beetle that has been broken down into its constituent substances. It is…

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