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ANKETS & CUSHIONS / WALL HANGINGS / BEAD & BASKETS / STORY OF MUM’S / FAIR DESIGN<br />
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OUT OF THE TRASH BIN<br />
RECYCLING LOCAL MATERIALS FOR GLOBAL GOOD<br />
By Viktoriya Kuzina<br />
& Marianna Haavisto<br />
What do telephone<br />
wires, plastic bottles,<br />
paper and cotton have in<br />
common? Any of them<br />
can be found in Africa.<br />
Any of them can also be<br />
used to bring amazing interior<br />
design items to life.<br />
From small jewelry to full<br />
size chairs and mirrors –<br />
Mum’s always relies on<br />
local recycled materials<br />
and factory leftovers as a<br />
primary source of working<br />
materials.<br />
Mum’s hires people<br />
to gather recyclable waste<br />
providing employment in<br />
localities all over the world<br />
with a fair payment to its<br />
workers. Every type of<br />
waste may be later used and<br />
turned into a piece of art:<br />
a chair with a hand-knotted<br />
seat made of recycled<br />
plastic, a lampshade made<br />
of bottles and canisters,<br />
cushions made of reclaimed<br />
cotton and many others.<br />
Mum’s tracks down the<br />
origin of the materials to<br />
ensure they were ethically<br />
produced and obtained.<br />
For example, instead of<br />
wool gathered by mulesing<br />
techniques Mum’s relies<br />
on painlessly sheared hy-<br />
po-allergenic alpaca wool<br />
from Bolivia, along with<br />
leather leftovers of shoes<br />
production from Africa,<br />
hand-dyed sari cuts from<br />
India, and Cambodian silk.<br />
By re-using locally<br />
gathered materials and factory<br />
leftovers at the workshops,<br />
Mum’s votes for<br />
better working conditions<br />
and a cleaner environment<br />
as well as for animal-friendly<br />
and cruelty-free production<br />
principles. Choosing<br />
Mum’s products does not<br />
only support the ethical<br />
design principles but also<br />
unites people around the<br />
world.<br />
“EVERY TYPE OF<br />
WASTE MAY BE LATER<br />
USED AND TURNED<br />
INTO A PIECE OF ART.<br />
IT’S JUST THINKING<br />
USED MATERIAL THE<br />
NEW WAY.” -THE BIRD<br />
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Mum’s uses various types of ethical materials: local, first class wool in India and Bolivia, surplus and recycled<br />
materials in Cambodia and South Africa. We have made sure no mulesing technique is used within<br />
shearing as it is very painful for an animal. The raw material is processed into fine desing in the hands<br />
of local artisans.<br />
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