Jos van der Meulen – the Recycling Designer
Since his youth, Jos van der Meulen's greatest love has been to develop new things from everyday objects. The idea behind its products is recycling and upcycling, to work with what the environment offers. If the environment does not have anything to offer, the Dutch designer has a large stock of stored materials, which he accesses then.
The Art of Recycling
At the Academy of Fine Arts in Rotterdam, Jos van der Meulen learned how to paint. The creative Dutchman understands like no other the art of recycling. Banal waste he gives a second life as useful utensils for everyday life, household and garden.
Unique items made of recycled billboard posters
Based on the quality of the material, useful everyday objects are created. The recycling Dutchman recycles truck hoses, cast iron, almost everything that he can get his fingers on. Particularly well-known from the production office Jajo, that van der Meulen runs with Jan Neggers, are 1 pound notepad, paper bags, messenger bags, document folders and envelopes, which are recycled from misprints and leftover billboard posters. All these products are unique. The notepad is the agony of choice, because everyone is unique and therefore a surprise when you hold it in your hands. A pen of rolled recycled paper sticks into the punched hole.
Before exporting tons of waste paper, e.g. to India, it is much more resource saving when 1 pound notepad lands on a desk in the green office. Other useful and sustainable accessories and items from the creative hands of Jos van der Meulen can be found at Greenpicks.