Spring by Shi Hoe Kim from korea
designer's own words:
Spring / Glass reusing bin (Glass recycling bin)
Empty bottles are reused after cleaned and sterilized. Reusing is more economical and environmentally friendly than producing new bottles.
The "Spring" is a new design of bin for collecting glass bottles safely and easily.
Ordinary bin being used, a glass bottles is easily broken when it is dumped striking onto the bottom of bin or dumped bottles, and the broken bottles cannot be reussed.
The "Spring" has a spring that moves down by the weight as bottles are piled up in the bin. As newly dumped bottles are always placed at the same level (upper level), in no case they happen to be broken.
1. Introduction
2. Principle
3. Application
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