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| Italian studio Carlo Ratti Associati has developed an orange squeezer that turns the waste fruit peel into 3D-printed bioplastic cups to drink the juice from. Created for global energy company Eni, Feel the Peel is a prototype orange squeezing machine that aims to bring circular design into everyday life. The 3.10-metre-tall experimental juice bar is topped by a circular dome filled with 1,500 oranges. When someone orders a juice, the oranges slide down into the squeezer where they are cut in half and juiced. After being juiced, the leftover orange peel falls into a see-through compartment at the bottom of the machine. The collected rinds are then dried and milled to make "orange dust", which is mixed with polylactic acid (PLA) to form a bioplastic material. Read more on Dezeen: [short URL of post from Wordpress] WATCH NEXT: Carlo Ratti aims to reduce energy use with personalised heating and cooling systems - https://youtu.be/ju_32_WzYAU Subscribe to our YouTube channel for the latest architecture and design movies: http://bit.ly/1tcULvh Like Dezeen on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dezeen/ Follow Dezeen on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Dezeen/ Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dezeen/ Check out our Pinterest: https://uk.pinterest.com/dezeen/ |
