Remind me55%
Collected
14121
Toys
25000kg
Goal to recycle
Do you know
Facts about plastic toys
80%
end up in landfills, waste incinerators or even oceans
90%
are made out of plastic and have only 6 months lifetime
500
bottle caps have the same value as 1 plastic toy
ecoBirdy programme
Start young, big impact
01 Awareness
An illustrated storybook informs children about the problems related to plastic waste and presents possible solutions.
02 Collection
Together with your children and friends collect used and broken plastic toys and take them to the ecoBirdy container.
How we work
100% processed in the EU
1Professional recycling center
2Manually checked
3Volume grinding
4Precise automated sorting
5Lab quality control
6‘Second-life’ new products
Video of the recycling process
Social & Sustainable
One earth, one family
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For a beautiful tomorrow
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Blog & News
Stories behind the scenes
Plastic surgery
Vanessa joins the conversation about plastic. Hosted by Kevin McCloud at the Grand Designs Live in London. An event organized in conjunction with Channel 4. They looked into alternative and successful ways of recycling plastic in the house design. Soon on TV....
Read moreSea of Plastic
On the occasion of Milan Design Week 2018, new brand ecoBirdy presented its four-piece debut collection of design furniture for kids made entirely of recycled plastic with a special installation at Superstudio Più. Called “Sea of Plastic”, it shows a surface full of plastic waste reflected by a mirror in the air: “the reflection of a reality for which we are all responsible”. It is intended to draw attention to ecoBirdy’s main goal: reduce the sea of plastic waste that is so harmful for our planet and make the most of our earth’s precious resources. The exhibition was visited by about 20,000 people....
Read moreecoBirdy debut
We have been to Maison & Objet in Paris last week, one of the most important design fairs all over Europe. It was with big excitement that we were expecting this fair as it was the first time that we presented our debut collection of kids furniture to the public. ...
Read moreMagic of flakes
After the first plastic toys had been examined, sorted, cleaned and grinded in the Netherlands, we travelled to Italy where all our collection is produced. Finally we could start testing the look for our first collection. ...
Read moreMay we introduce…
Charlie, the Chair. Next week our first ecoBirdy furniture collection for kids will be officially launched. All pieces will be unveiled at our own stand at Maison & Objet in Paris: Hall 7 — Stand D168. After two years of planning and working on our ecoBirdy project, we couldn’t be more excited this moment has finally arrived. ...
Read moreFacts about Kiwi, the bird
- lives only in New Zealand - is flightless and almost blind - are believed to be more than 8 million years old - lay the largest egg in relation to their body size (20% of their body size, a human baby is 5% of its mothers’ body size) ...
Read moreA journey to a new life
It was our goal to raise awareness for sustainability amongst kids. But what would be the best way to make the youngsters understand what we are doing and why? We thought about it again and again, always with the shocking images of the earth’s oceans full of plastic rubbish on our minds. ...
Read moreecoBirdy at school
We had created our own story we wanted to tell all the kids out there. For us visiting schools is a great way to meet children and collect as many unused plastic toys as possible. Thus we started our ecoBirdy school programme back in autumn. ...
Read moreWhy plastic toys
For our ecoBirdy project we wanted to do something different. Not easy in 2017 when already everything - when it comes to consumer goods - seems to exist. We were researching about sustainability, about sustainable materials. ...
Read moreThe beginning
We already were at a good point. We have had the idea for our ecoBirdy project, a concept for the design. Our business plan was written and we even had started to collect some unused plastic toys in our neighbourhood. ...
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