Meet The Woman Who Turns Trash Into High-End Furniture That Costs Thousands | World Wide Waste
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- Опубликовано: 5 июл 2022
- Construction waste makes up about a third of all dry waste in New York City. However, about 95% of it is recyclable. This company in Brooklyn is trying to mitigate the damage by manufacturing furniture almost entirely with this waste stream.
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Meet The Woman Who Turns Trash Into High-End Furniture That Costs Thousands | World Wide Waste
Why am I going to pay $4200 for a couch made from trash when I can thrift one for like $100? I’m really tired of designers claiming sustainability while not even making it accessible. If sustainability isn’t accessible then you don’t care about it, you just care about being artsy and making money while touting you’re green
While i am with you on thrifting for my own furniture, i definitely wouldnt sell something i spent hours working on for a few hundred dollars. Im sure she had to pay gas, Overhead, workers, and herself. If theres someone willing to pay high end designer prices for craftsmanship then ima market to them. Meanwhile, yes, ill go by a 40 dollar couch from my local goodwill for my own home
Lies again? Google Drive Buy Trash
So right you are. But hopefully that price will make people think that can make that even better for themselves.
At $4,200 a couch, it's just another way for wealthy people to act like they're helping the environment while flying private and owning multiple homes
People are buying these as art, I don't think they are considering the product as "environmental"...that's the narrative of the video, not the narrative of the customers.
You read my mind Financial Shinanigan...
All of you don’t understand, this is the key to solving the climate crisis! Do your part and save more money to buy this furniture!
@@stephenlambert6407 Or, reuse rubbish and make your own. Then you don't have to pay for a new couch or bed. Or, make furniture out of waste and make some money for yourself. The subject is waste, not climate.
@@BradGryphonn her company is lowering the worlds carbon footprint and providing homeless New Yorkers with meals. I don’t understand what you have against the homeless
The couch looks like it deserves to be back at the landfill it came from
Yes it look really bad and I would guess it isn't nice sitting or sleeping on it.....so it is totally useless for every normal person....and then it is more expensive than a new couch. Bought my sofa for 350$ for comparison.....
Hey, if she manages to find customers who will pay that much, good for her. It's good that she is keeping waste away from the landfill and making something using reclaimed materials.
$4200 for the worlds most uncomfortable couch, I’m in
I found this lady more of a designer than a savior of trash ...you know that kind of designer u tape a banana on a wall ! :) ...it's a lot of work even to combine trash also has some employees, so the price makes sense - is not IKEA that produce in numbers
How to make a 4200 dollar couch? By finding idiots that are willing to pay the price.
and that is probably the sole actual job of the boss lady when no cameras are around.
Yea this is your typical New York video here haha
or a way to launder money easy
Kestra Music hmm in terms of the pretty uncheckable value creation I guess so, but wouldn't it be a big problem that america is mostly cashless nowadays when it comes to payments of those sizes? the normal oldschool money laundry budiness relies on taking in moatly cash in its legal operations, like a bar, club or barber. I'm not sure if the clientel for this furniture has ever touched paper money.
You are afraid there is a lack of them now?
And handcraft is something else than factorymade...
Count hours and compare to what you self earn...
Is your hours for what you produce more worth? Do you make something more meaningful to humankind?
I'm really curious!
Fixed the title for you:
"Woman tries to get rich selling Trash, much too little to make an actual difference in any way, shape or form"
Bc ppl make way too much trash, that’s why 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
@@Benni777 because she wants statement pieces made for rich fucks instead of making $80 coffee tables 😂
If they pay $4,200 for that couch at 0:35 then I don't know what to tell you other than...
PT Barnum said it best:
"No man ever went broke overestimating the ignorance of the American public"
🤣🤣
A fool and his money are quickly parted - someone else a long time ago.
She better scale up and find a ways to reduce costs or her company will never have a meaningful impact on waste. There's just not enough people who can pay that much for furniture to ever put a dent in the wasted created. At best she's created a way for wealthy people to virtue signal with their furniture.
Agreed. This is another rich persons flexing. Rich people already fly private jets, this business is barely helping the environment. I think its a good idea, but there isn't enough scalability with it.
That's what I thought. I like that she recycling but why sell for so much. Just seems greedy to me. Wish she would make beds, chairs, and whatnot for people who have lost homes to wildfires, earthquakes, and flooding.
I think she might be earning money by selling pollution credits. So she claims she recycles a ton of waste. That could be like 10,000... Maybe... I'm guessing on the amounts, but I know it exists
@@itsjustbrandy4290 Exactly, its all just a cashgrab. Hope these people will wake up
@@itsjustbrandy4290 low demand so high prices :)
That barrel in the couch was brand new, it's never been near a construction site!
The barrel came from an ice cream factory, that's why it's so clean...
Likely coconut oil barrels
This is the way.
@@inlangford way too clean for that as well😂
@@tobiasrab6447 well, maybe they cleaned it?
My son scrounged all the cabinets for his shop from the dumpster at his school while it was being renovated. He got an entire truck load of yellow and red cedar utility poles from a project last year and had a buddy saw the poles into boards and beams. He now has beautiful fencing around his farm, a new pergola on the deck and multiple farm style kitchen tables from that reclaimed wood.
That's awesome! Many have the idea but don't act thus came the show Hoarders
Heck yeah
I don’t think she really cares about reducing waste, she just found a way to start a furniture company where others provide her with the items to build the furniture. It’s actually a good idea for making money. Some RUclipsrs already do this, but on a much smaller scale.
lol gary must’ve messed up if they are making a point of saying he no longer works there
Haha I was thinking the same thing
haha, I noticed that, too.
"Here's Gary... who was an employee when this was filmed. TOTALLY not there anymore, though!"
His dialogue at 3:29 even makes him seem a little unhinged. "I do a lot. Everything. I even spill blood sometimes."
I get it: He's saying he works so hard that he sometimes he literally puts his blood into it. Having said that, it comes across as a bit of a non-sequitur here. Like, you spilling blood doesn't equate to doing "everything."
It was probably that blood comment lol and he’s probably telling the truth too
Immediately, I think he mustve gotten hurt on the job and they didn't let him leave work until he finished. They said they have close deadlines. And TV producer types don't take a no for an answer.
I can't imagine the price tag on the table, mostly paying for labor not materials because it's recycled stuff
Did you look at the rise of wood prices? Within the last year it already doubled. Not to mention anything else and the future with inflation.
@@tubeetogoo yeah I'm just saying it's recycled wood it's not newly produced wood so I'm guessing that would be a lot cheaper since there were gonna throw it out anyway.
@@dappergenesis822 then go out and try to find some nice planks like the one in the video.
I helped a friend sell his old treehouse bet which now used to be a second floor storage. He thought it was trash but with today’s prices you can easily sell it for a good price. And people will pick it up for you.
@@dappergenesis822 and the afterwork you have with recycled wood is waaay much higher then with new one that is produced in bigger numbers.
Remove nails, bird shit, paint, stain, cracks, rotten stuff, plane it, saw it, sand it, finish it,... it’s not a piece of mass production after all. But in the future as you say when "everybody" does this then yes it would and should be cheaper. But honestly I know a few people in my bubble but how many in modern society have a full wood workshop in their flat?
@@tubeetogoo yeah that's what I meant in my comment by they are paying more for labor vs materials. Yes material costs are high. But I'm thinking the cost of materials is probably cheaper than the labor cost, because it's recycled. And then the labor paid to make that used wood, good enough to use. So your paying for labor more than materials on that also.
She has a great idea, in it's current state it seems more like a conversation piece of furniture for some rich jag off.
Kudos to her for trying I guess.. of all the things you could call that couch, luxury shouldn't even come close to leaving your lips
Yay for recycling, but boo for stoopid price tag
I guess if you have several professionals with decades of experience there will be a certain price tag😅
The point of the video is to inspire people and scale this model up ( 7:50).
*sometimes it would be better to watch the whole thing before you judge ✌🏽🍀
@@tubeetogoo this is not so hard that you make it out to be. Stop being gullible and swallow whatever price people put in front of you.
@@daegucityboy every novice furniture maker could do what they do easily.
@@daegucityboy just because they found a niche market doesn’t make it right to markup your products ridiculously, especially when your whole Shtick is to be environmentally friendly, all about recycling and circular economy.
The intent appears to be...there..but this particular video stands out from the rest in terms of scale and impact. Making art from waste is great, but also not all that uncommon. Flipping construction waste into luxury priced furniture seems less like a practical approach to modifying the waste stream and more like a way to allow people with the most privilege (and also the most opportunity to enact change within the system) to feel satisfied in their contributions by buying a flipped table.
Yeah that's true. But honestly, one should think about this as a luxury product with an interesting manufacturing process and story. That's what sells when it comes to other such products. At least this is better for the environment, even if the impact isn't huge. So a unique furniture piece with a *bonus* of being recycled. Personally, I'd pay more for something like that than something covered in diamonds or designed by a so-called 'design prodigy', because I find paying for that stuff a little bit... silly.
@@Dank-One Agreed there 100%! Making stuff with things that would otherwise just go to landfill is always preferable. I just found this inclusion in the world wide waste series somewhat weird because of how different it is to the others in terms of scale - an art piece/item of interesting furniture made using upcycled materials vs paving stones from plastic or sand from glass bottles etc. Still a really interesting business to get a peek at and the things they make are cool : D
@@amberlasciak274 exactly this is not flipping. 50+ years of experience going into these craft pieces. Then you pay 1/2 that price for an ikea table that will eventually end up in a landfill anyway. If I could afford these, I would definitely get one. Would be my living room “proud recycled art” piece. She’s doing good, having already abandoned a much shallower career lets not forget. She’s an artist not a politician.
@@amberlasciak274 True! I def used the wrong word - these items are clearly carefully and skillfully crafted.
also the privileged have wealth and influence and therefore can change how is being thought about waste. So they could be ambassadors of environmental thinking, as well
What a ripoff. If she wants to have a real impact, she needs to mass produce and sell for much cheaper.
damn, what happened with gary that they had to stress he no longer works there
Yes, I want to know :)
He probably asked to be be payed more than minimum wage.
Can be any number of reasons, but it's simply good practice to acknowledge whenever the facts have changed between the time of filming to the time of publishing.
I honestly don't feel this is worth the price and it looks uncommon.
“Uncommon” you just justified the price
Old dude "worked there at the time of filming"? It seems he lived a good life. Hope he is retired now and sipping tea on his porch. ❤
Right?
Right - What happened to Gary Wright? Why is he a former employee?
This isn't a new thing... me,my family and art friends have been "Ally diving" for years and making one of a kind pieces we just don't have the money to start a whole company and get a reporter to come and applaud our work
Let ur local news station know about it!
This is a great refreshing way to use 1.2 million pounds of waste. Very creative!
why lately there are so many recycled products whose prices don't make sense, 4200 for a couch!? and the model doesnt screaming "luxury" compared to price tag.
Well, $4200 *could* be reasonable considering how much work goes into it... it just doesn't look that ergonomic...
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"None of your business...no" The way this woman talks to people on the walkie talkie makes me feel she is controlling and a terrible person to work with, let alone work for. no wonder Gary is no longer there.
This is a textbook definition of virtue signaling. I mean yeah, it’s good to use the trash. But it’s not doing anything to address the systemic problem and only serves to show off how much of a good person you are.
Let's do the math here. Assuming she needs 5 people to work on each piece of furniture, and each person works an average of 15 hours, that's 75 hours per furniture.
Assuming they want an average salary of $80k (already pretty low for NYC) then that's $40 an hour.
40/hr x 75/hr per furniture piece is $3,000. That would be the total cost just for labour. This doesn't include other costs like overhead, marketing and storage.
The biggest challenge to solve here is that each individual piece of furniture needs to be specially designed based on the pieces they find in the construction site. Those require lots of design hours.
In order to scale they need a process where they sort all of the pieces into similar buckets then design models that can be replicated.
That in itself is a feat for a small business owner. They need venture funding and a more experienced management team if they want to scale.
The only problem with this is alot of recycled parts were already fabricated and manufactured. Therefore the creator has already made the bulk of the product. That's your math,unless it's from scratch you know?
@@SoundEscape3ing that's assuming she's using old furniture and remodelling it. But you can see from the video that's not the case. She's taking unused pieces of lumber, steel and other wasted pieces of construction materials and designing them into furniture. They're all "one of a kind"
@@xxxxxxxxxxxxx760 what do you mean? Don't mean to sound pompous but I'm the welder in the video and that's exactly what we did .
The fabricated steel frame was already made and became salvageable.
Barrels get welded into place,the concept is not a " start from scratch" but rather Amber's idea is a hybrid of meeting in the middle.
And for those reasons, I'm out
Although Condor Couch sounds better than Condor Chair, that thing is definitely a chair.
I love that they are reclaiming trash and making furniture from this but the price is so not worth it!! This just gives rich people a talking point to their friends while pretending to be better than everyone else because "they are helping the planet". This needs to be affordable to the masses so it can make a real impact.
they showcased just a couple of her products how do we know she doesnt make affordable products.
Love this idea so much. I’ll be completely honest though, I don’t love the design of the couch. I would have used the barrel as the base for the couch and something else for the back and arm rests
I agree. The design is not outstanding.
Recycling is good, this is stupid.
Holy, $4200 is even too much for a normal couch, not to mention "recycle".
The "couch" should cost like 20$, then its fine.
Why? It requires so much labor, why should it be underpaid???
@@hks_uz Because it is garbage.
They can also get extra parts from items from goodwill also for real cheap.
He got let go when he said he spilled blood sometimes 😂
Only in big cities like NY, LA, or Miami, where people poses no skills could you sell this for so much.
exactly, this is not even nice looking.
No chance costs have to so high so that the sofa has to cost $4200, this just seams like someone making a trendy company to stroke their ego.
I guess Gary quit right after filming this video😂😂 they made it a point to say he's no longer there
"Recycled" sticker adds 3,000$ to the cost. Greasy business. I feel like this should be a episode of trailer park boys. What happend to gary
I love the idea of reusing things that can be Repurposed!
But 4200 for that couch 0:33 seconds is insane! It doesn't even look anywhere close to that price tag!! Not trying to hate but sheesh 🤣
How bloody pretentious is this? She said "it's none of your business" when asked how much they charge for custom pieces, likely because she didn't want to be judged - the price is probably ridiculous.
This is brilliant and on the right track. I hope more people join in and more waste get reused.
We just going to ignore how that upholsterer said he sometimes murders people?
0:33 That is NOT a couch!
If I'm gonna buy a 4200 couch I'm not gonna but a couch from garbage I'm gonna pay off car payments
$4,200!! for a small couch?! WHAT?!
I want to work in a company like that like the recycling stuff is my thing
If youve ever worked on a construction site you would know how much waste there is. We would throw away lumber just because it had some nails in it.
She gets people to turn trash in to crap. Amazing.
I get wanting to reduce the amount of waste going to landfills, and that the business needs to make a profit to be afloat. But… there ain’t no way I’m spending $4200 on that, even if I have the money
Trash and you want to me to pay 4000 for a couch
*custom handmade single piece furniture is more adequate but yeah about 4K
Yeah let's judge and demotivate one of the already few companies repurposing waste.
If you want something that has more impact, don't diminish her achievements, help her scale up or cheap it down. Or maybe start your own repurposing waste company.
So easy to say that she is greedy for wanting money for a day of hard work while we are sitting at home watching youtube in our pajamas.
as a person that also create from recycled materials i hear that argument all the time but you are paying for so much more experience and such.
it‘s a good idea but what baffles me is that we don‘t see her doing any work on the furniture herself, it‘s all done by her „employees“ but she gets all of the credit. i appreciate Gary and all of the people that work on the pieces because they are the ones that actually create more or less beautiful pieces (couch not included). i think it would be more authentic if we saw her taking a paintbrush or whatever to realize „her ideas“ to contribute to a better future.
it all starts with what we do ourselves in smaller steps.
Um yeah that’s how businesses work.. Either you start your own business and do everything yourself like me and many other people, maybe hiring on a couple hands in the future. Or if you have the money you can start a company and hire people to do the labor, she did the latter. Either way it’s her company.. Now starting a company as a group or a team is different, then all the creators should get equal credit but it seems she started the company herself and found people to hire. You have no idea who created your phone, only the owner gets his name out there 🤷♀️
*More like creating more junk!*
Great idea💛
Inspirational. 👏👏👏
4200$ for that is ridiculous
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You know you live in America.. when you cut a drum, stick it to some wood, law some fabric on it, and charge $4,200
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Imagine me paying 10 times more for a furniture that was just trash. I’ll pass
God bless her. Logistics alone , oh wow…how she does it…she deserves every success
not when nobody can buy her product
When you use garbage incorrectly the final product ends up as garbage. That couch is appalling to say the least, do better!
1 persons trash is another person's treasure
I get it, it's art. Whether it's recycled trash or not someone put their vision into something that would've been mildew somewhere rotting. She can price it however she wishes imo. Good job!!! 👍
$4200 for that barrel couch!! Ninja technique to fool wealthy people.
wood chips are very useful for many things. cloth can be shredded and used as stuffing for furniture.
That's why everything is made in china. $4,200 and the sofa isn't even leather.....
Would love this done in the Philippines too..I wish I could afford an investment like this..but this is really inspiring..
it looks more like meet the woman that runs a company that makes high end furniture.. it would be very nice to see people making and selling affordable furniture from trash .. more would sell and people could get nice cheap furniture .. which would recycle more material
This is awesome
Another great vid, never disappoints!
Amazing!
Glad that people still see through this bullshit. I don’t give up on people and people don’t give up on me. The hypocrisy is evident.
$4200 for that ugly as sin couch is a crime
While she saved 100 KG of waste going in the landfills another 100 Tonnes comes in.
I´m in love!
"education is..." ❤💚❤
Nice video.
The couch being made of what it is made from, and the price tag that was slapped on it, is very similar to how the art trade world works. Shitty paintings of a splatter or a straight black line go for like millions sometimes. Its bafflingly rediculous.
Edit: I don't give a hoot about 'love & effort' that went into the work. Theres still no reason that repurposed TRASH should cost that much. It would be just as easy for me to make a couch out of garbage for FREE, and without much thought or 'love'.
Was thinking exactly the same, When she said prices based on material and labour costs. Material costs were near enough zero, so labour must be about 400 bucks an hour. That looked like the most uncomfortable couch in the fekin world too. So yeah, artsy fartsy people would gush over it, like they would Tracy Emmins unmade bed work of art, and the art world has such shit taste most of the time.
Then do it. Make a couch out of garbage and sell for half the price or a quarter of it. There is demand as she showed us, you would get a good income cause clearly the cost of production is zero and waste would be repurposed.
She has done more for art industry by selling overpriced trash couches than anyone did by criticizing the trash couches. The one who created that trash is still more artistic than the one who criticized it, only exception would be if you created something comparable yourself.
@@HoughStone i agree 100% people like that really get under my skin stop complaining and just do it yourself but most of the time they cant just whine.
@@HoughStone That couch is still for sale on their website.
@@HoughStone I've seen some art exhibition in my college year, they made a better product with a repurposed waste than this lady shitty product. Like an actual sofa made from wooden pallets but was covered with leftover sponge from nearby factory and then covered with a beautifully stitched together leftovers clothes from linen factory. And that was better than that couch, I mean why did they made the half cutted barrel into a convex couch ? Turn it upside down and covered it with pillow or something that way it just more comfortable because its ergonomic, and if you want. You can just nailed a piece of wood covered in cloth or sponge at one side of the barrel to make a back rest.
Wow, $4,000 for garbage recycled to be moderately less garbagy-garbage? For that price I want a couch that mops floors and does taxes along with being comfortable.
Lol I guess I am gonna be the next Billionaire. I just need to make uncomfortable furniture and go dumpster diving
Bring the idea to Nashville, let me work for you!
scamming people is not recycle or art, it's robbery.
I wonder if they can salvage the raw materials from the building before it is demolished?
I have a MIGHTY NEED to get in on that scam
$4,200 couch = 600 square feet Bamboo house with a bed, couch, dining table and chairs, a fridge, stove, kitchen utensils, dining wares, a bathroom, and a swing in southeast Asia.
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very cool
adds a 40,000 price sticker to a bag full of trash: boom! high end expensive bean bag
Anyone who pays $4,200 for that piece of garbage called a couch needs a check up from the neck up.
Did anyone besides me notice the pieces of the barrels used on that overpriced uncomfortable looking “couch” were not cut evenly nor was there anything done to the unrolled edges to keep them from potentially cutting someone. Part of what makes a product worth the money being charged for it is the attention to detail and edges that are obviously not straight due to poor craftsmanship and pride in one’s workmanship or not finished in such away to prevent the buyer from personal injury is schlocky junk and the person who designed it and the person who crafted it should be ashamed of themselves. My Grandfather once told me no matter what you do in life make sure your the best at wether you are a garbage collector, a janitor, or a diamond cutter or a brain surgeon be the very best one in the world doing it.
PS anyone who throws a steel barrel in the trash is an idiot because there are plenty markets for used barrels.
People seeing the price tag thinking this is Ikea or something. These are handmade pieces, with multiple people working on the project. Regardless of what materials were used, how much do you think it is to hire a multiple designers and craftsman to make a custom handmade piece?
$4200.00 for that couch is a rip off.
And waste of money.
Those who think this organization is here to be one that seeks to make a quantitative change..are deluded. Clearly, the effort they exert is only that which serves to outline that which others may come to see as possible within the scope of general renewal.
I feel like Detroit NEEDS this type of company. There’s way too much waster here in the D.
super-nice!
I love her idea, but that condor couch looks almost useless. How many people does that seat? Lay down? And it goes for $4200?
For someone to buy that, they must have plenty of $$$ to waste around and some weird sense of art style.
This would be my dream job to work for her
"non of ur business" was her first thought? That's pretty negative and is not a good foundation behind her vision.
She reminds me of Jan from the office - my favourite character!
You can hardly call it a couch