Milk Cartons Turned into a Soft-colored Wall Material
Mr. Matsuzaki, executive director of PAPER WORKS Inc., is originally a ceramicist. When he was teaching ceramic at an institution for the disabled, he came across with postcards made from pulps taken out of used milk cartons by the disabled. Handmade WASHI-like texture drew his attention. Making postcards did not pay enough due to limited demand. Mr. Matsuzaki thought of an idea to make a wall material from used milk cartons, and by adding his own clay-used coloring technique as value, he believed it could pay for independent life of the disabled persons suffering from low-income.
After repeated tests for improvement, SUISHI (wall material) was finally born. It contains nothing else but vegetal glue, recycled pulp, food preservatives, colorant clay and water. It is safe because the pulp is from milk cartons-- originally a food container--, carefully taken out by the hands of the disabled without using chemicals.
It is a firm policy of PAPERWORKS to make workplace with no discrimination between disabled and non-disabled, all working freshly together.
SUISHI is sending a message ”to make a new sustainable society where people can devote themselves in most human-like work through resource recycling.”
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