Meet The Woman Who Turns Trash Into High-End Furniture That Costs Thousands | World Wide Waste

Construction waste makes up about a third of all dry waste in New York City. However, about 95% of it is recyclable. This company in Brooklyn is trying to mitigate the damage by manufacturing furniture almost entirely with this waste stream.

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Meet The Woman Who Turns Trash Into High-End Furniture That Costs Thousands | World Wide Waste

[FinancialShinanigan]

At $4, 200 a couch, it's just another way for wealthy people to act like they're helping the environment while flying private and owning multiple homes

[wouldntyouliketoknow]

Why am I going to pay $4200 for a couch made from trash when I can thrift one for like $100? I’m really tired of designers claiming sustainability while not even making it accessible. If sustainability isn’t accessible then you don’t care about it, you just care about being artsy and making money while touting you’re green

[tylernorby]

She better scale up and find a ways to reduce costs or her company will never have a meaningful impact on waste. There's just not enough people who can pay that much for furniture to ever put a dent in the wasted created. At best she's created a way for wealthy people to virtue signal with their furniture.

[peterkucia]

The couch looks like it deserves to be back at the landfill it came from

[nomore-constipation]

If they pay $4, 200 for that couch at 0:35 then I don't know what to tell you other than...

PT Barnum said it best:

"No man ever went broke overestimating the ignorance of the American public"

[MandoHalrissian]

That barrel in the couch was brand new, it's never been near a construction site!

[krselj]

How to make a 4200 dollar couch? By finding idiots that are willing to pay the price.

[zackwood]

$4200 for the worlds most uncomfortable couch, I’m in

[ssj]

Fixed the title for you:
"Woman tries to get rich selling Trash, much too little to make an actual difference in any way, shape or form"

[boecat]

She has a great idea, in it's current state it seems more like a conversation piece of furniture for some rich jag off.

[briangarrow]

My son scrounged all the cabinets for his shop from the dumpster at his school while it was being renovated. He got an entire truck load of yellow and red cedar utility poles from a project last year and had a buddy saw the poles into boards and beams. He now has beautiful fencing around his farm, a new pergola on the deck and multiple farm style kitchen tables from that reclaimed wood.

[dappergenesis]

I can't imagine the price tag on the table, mostly paying for labor not materials because it's recycled stuff

[malcolmjeng]

lol gary must’ve messed up if they are making a point of saying he no longer works there

[jonathanseibert]

Kudos to her for trying I guess.. of all the things you could call that couch, luxury shouldn't even come close to leaving your lips

[bunnyribbits]

The intent appears to be...there..but this particular video stands out from the rest in terms of scale and impact. Making art from waste is great, but also not all that uncommon. Flipping construction waste into luxury priced furniture seems less like a practical approach to modifying the waste stream and more like a way to allow people with the most privilege (and also the most opportunity to enact change within the system) to feel satisfied in their contributions by buying a flipped table.

[AmTree]

I don’t think she really cares about reducing waste, she just found a way to start a furniture company where others provide her with the items to build the furniture. It’s actually a good idea for making money. Some YouTubers already do this, but on a much smaller scale.

[gaveintothedarkness]

Yay for recycling, but boo for stoopid price tag

[myrabbitispink]

damn, what happened with gary that they had to stress he no longer works there

[deanjehorek]

What a ripoff. If she wants to have a real impact, she needs to mass produce and sell for much cheaper.

[kaseybrown]

This isn't a new thing... me, my family and art friends have been "Ally diving" for years and making one of a kind pieces we just don't have the money to start a whole company and get a reporter to come and applaud our work