This paper bin was designed last year for Comieco_Italian consortium for the recovery and recycling of cellulose-based packagings.

The concept of this bin plays with the thickness of paper and its ease of being fold. The container is made with a thin paper kept in its standard size (70x100) and folded like a normal shopping bag, with the simple addition of an extra fold which, when opened, becomes the pocket of the second element. This one is also cut from a standard size of a much thicker paper and it's the essential element for allowing the right tension between the two.

Together they compensate each other and make a very solid and lasting bin which uses a minimum quantity of paper.

The bigger size was not possible giving the limited numbers we needed to produce and the standard size of paper (not big enough). Therefore a much simpler version, still made of two pieces but in cardboard, was created to give a similar feeling.