Lucy Hughes won the James Dyson Award this year for her plastic alternative made from fish waste. It is made up of discarded fish scales and skin which she found to be very flexible and strong. These skins and scales were bound together by agar to give the form of this single-use translucent plastic alternative.
These fish skins and scales are taken from 172,000 tonnes of waste put into landfills every year. These can be composted at home between 4 to 6 weeks. Managing to create such an eco-friendly product from a form of waste you would never imagine using is very commendable. This fits into the desired circular economy that all designers are striving to achieve. All I wonder is that thinking of fish does not depict that of a very pleasant smell, and so I wonder how this has been eradicated. Also from a consumers point of view, does the use of a bio-plastic from fish skin and scales appeal, or is this now the world we live in where we need to get over our snobby habits and realize that waste in all forms is going to become part of our daily lives, and we must accept that?
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