How to design sustainably: Use an agricultural waste and rice composite as your material! - Yanko Design

Sustainability has now been extended to kitchen utensils too! Production designer François Hurtaud created a collection of back-to-basics kitchen utensils crafted from eco-friendly materials. Accounted Yootensel, the collection consists of a kitchen knife and a vegetable peeler.

Both the Yootensel Kitchen Knife and Peeler boast stainless steel blades. However, their handles are far from the usual. Created from a composite of agronomical waste and rice, the handles are completely eco-friendly, condom for humans, animals, and the surroundings. Recyclable and reusable, the combination of agricultural waste product and rice is high on the sustainability quotient. Grapevines, unusable vegetables, date palm fronds could be some instances of the agricultural waste being used, with the rice acting equally a binding agent. The lower stop of the long stainless steel blade is so encompassed past two panels of the composite, with grooves that fit in to hold the entire structure together, forming the handle. Abandoning plastic and metal, the all-natural handle possesses an ergonomic form, with dimensions that allow us to hold both the knife and peeler firmly nonetheless effortlessly in our hands. While holding the handle, its unique structure distributes the forcefulness employed by us, ensuring that the bract does not bend nor break.

Argent winner of the 2022 European Product Pattern Award, Yootensel is a range of durable, recyclable and eco-friendly kitchen tools that not only puts our needs beginning simply the needs of the surroundings also!

Designer: François Hurtaud

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