Adidas-Parley Eco Glasses

Tasked with designing in accordance with Adidas-Parley design language and ethos

I developed a product that benefits those who fit the collaboration's image the most:
Environmental clean-up volunteers

Goals:

Utilize sportswear as a catalyst for conscious ecological actions
Deliver emphatic form & function to aid performance via recycled materials

Product Plan:

Another broken pair? These frames are elastic & durable - via Carbon's DLS printing

Broad nose wrap for all nose types

UV Resistant

Features

Lens on sides & nose blocks light from all angles, on the water or land

Materials & Manufacturing

Multi-flex organic structure

Resin/Recycled Plastic Composite

Carbon DLS Printers

Recycled Clear

Plastic Bits

Recycled Material-DLS Printing Concept:

After clear plastics are retrieved & washed, they are to be ground into minuscule bits.

By using clear plastics, light can still reach through to the curable resin casting the ex-litter & potentially strengthening the form.

Illustration via Xometry

Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET)

Injection Molding

Mirroring via Vacuum Deposition

Recycling Process

UV Dip Coating

Clear Dip Coating

Recycling Optical PET:

Like all recycling, PET must be sorted & washed. This is essential so only clear & clean PET is processed.

Melt filtration (below) is used to remove further particles not washed out or removed. Decontamination methods like solid-state polymerization & vacuum extraction can also help this process.

Temperature, pressure & cooling rates effect the plastic's transparency & can be optimized.

Illustration via Erema Recycling

Due to material degradation & further processing, recycled PET will never be as transparent as virgin PET. To combat this, a percentage of virgin PET can be implemented into the lenses to reach optimal levels of transparency.

Recycling costs much more than producing single use components, disincentivizing their production. Despite additional cost needed for recycling infrastructure, Adidas-Parley customers would be willing to pay a premium for a conscious product, they helped supply.