young designers reinvents sustainable face masks made of egg wastes and commonplace objects

face mask has come to make an essential daily trend following the covid19 pandemic. so does one think about how to incorporate existing issues with a design solution that offers multiple values to save living beings and the earth? such as designing a mask from recycled material and food wastes.

here’s the insight story from two young and emerging designers on creating a sustainable mask that saves both humans and the planet from environmental wastes.

breathe project — the masks made of egg waste

let’s called it a mask made of egg-waste. perhaps, it doesn’t sound familiar to you, but project breathe genuinely is a sustainable face mask made of egg waste ready for mass production projected by a young south korean designer, hye hyun song.

every year, more than 200.000 tons of eggshell waste is produced worldwide. just as much as eggs are frequently used for cooking, this number is likely to increase and potentially become an environmentally problematic type of waste sooner.

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