The Re-Use Atlas

Interview with an Expert

Cyrill Gutsch, designer and creative entrepreneur, founder of Parley for the Oceans

DBB: Is recycling ‘just slowing down the inevitable’?

CG: For me recycling is not a solution. It’s really the first conversation, because when you look at material – and specifically I’m talking about plastic – people use something and toss it away, then it loses all value. It’s very obvious now with plastic, but it was not perceived as a problem until recently. Obviously there are specialists who are well aware of the problems of plastic waste, but in the mainstream you couldn’t find an awareness of plastic being any sort of problem ...