The Good EGG

The Good Egg is a pair of stackable egg cups showing that our collective effort to recycle and reuse plastic waste has a real effect. 

Cast using post consumer, and industrial waste polypropylene, each pair weighs approximately 40g, about the same as a small egg. With each set, the user can recognise that they have removed about an egg's worth of plastic waste from our environment.

The Good Egg can be purchased through PARO Store, Amsterdam, or by contacting us.

We believe in business as a force for good and donate 1% of sales to a charity or organisation chosen for each product. For The Good Egg 1% will go to Take 3 For The Sea, a charity dedicated to ocean clean-up and public education.

Photography by Bracket Studio

Made by hand in the Netherlands, we use a small-scale, lo-fi process of plastic manufacturing developed using Precious Plastic knowledge and techniques. Precious Plastic is a grassroots plastic recycling community started by Dave Hakkens, that enables designers, makers, and creative thinkers to produce products, build machinery and start workspaces that utilise recycled consumer and industrial waste plastic.

The Good Egg is produced at Sparkling Plastic, a sociale werkplaats in 's-Hertogenbosch. Sparkling Plastic is is a workshop built upon the knowledge of Precious Plastic, that sorts and shreds plastic waste into granulates that are ready for use in their machinery. Alongside producing their own pieces, they encourage the adoption of recycled plastic by opening their workshop to students and creatives to experiment, learn, and develop products that are made with sustainability in mind.

These egg cups use 100% recycled Polypropylene (PP), indicated by the #5 on the underside of each cup, a plastic that is BPA-free and one of the safest to use in contact with food. This plastic comes from Bas van de Ende located in Hoek van Holland, sourced through Plastic Recycling Company for Sparkling Plastic. The marbled flecks of colour throughout the egg cups are unique to the production process, and hint at the plastic’s previous life. If a time comes when they are no longer of use to you, they can be recycled again, keeping plastic in the loop and out of our environment.

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Designed and produced 2020.