Swedish design group Muungano have created a set of containers for collecting household recycling called Husmus (housemouse). The containers are made of offset printed recycled plastics which are held together with plastic rivets, which come flat and need assembled before use.
"Husmus is most likely the worlds best designed and perhaps most charming recycle bin system."
But don´t let their simple shape fool you, behind the form is some hardcore research in to kitchen sizes, different types of standard module’s, garbage throwing behaviour, sizes of plastics and paper bags, the weight of glass, metal, paper and so on. And I think that they are a very modern and well thought out version of the usually unsightly recycling bins or waste recepticals that we get now a days that have more thought about the exterior look and appeal than the inside and of how people will throw the rubbish in to them etc. This will be used as an insight in to my thinking behaviour for next semester ...thinking out of the box!!
