Enis Akiev
Plastic Stone Tiles
Conscious Innovation Projects
This work is called “Plastic Stone Tiles – The Nature of Waste”. These are tiles consisting of post- consumer plastic waste. Origin of the work were the questions, “What is waste?” and “Where is ‘away’?”. Waste is something subjective. What is considered waste in one place or situation can be a resource under other conditions. Waste is unused material. And there is no such thing as ‘away’. The majority of plastic waste ends up in the sea. This gave rise to the question of how plastic waste behaves in nature. Under natural influences it forms plastiglomerate. A compound of plastic and natural geological components. It is a new kind of rock. Based on this, I investigated rock forming processes and developed methods to give lightweight packaging waste a natural-looking rock-like structure.
