Hundested, Denmark 

“It was images of dead sea turtles and dolphins entangled in fishing nets and melting icebergs caused by man-made CO2 emissions that made me join the project. In early 2019, I signed Manga Street up to the Ocean Plastic Forum, which is a partnership of Danish organizations, companies, NGO’s and research institutions working ambitiously to prevent and remove plastic from the world’s oceans,” states Julie Storm, designer and founder of Manga Street.

“In the Ocean Plastic Forum, I quickly got in touch with the company PLASTIX, which already produces plastic from used fishing nets, trawls, and ropes that
come from ports, net manufacturers, and plastic collectors globally. However, it soon became clear that the plastic did not have the properties needed for rotational molding, which is the method of Scoop and Scoopi’s form of production,” she continues.

Julie Storm’s Scoop Ocean Flowerpot has become one of Manga Street’s core products and is made of 50% worn-out fishing nets that would maybe otherwise have ended up in a landfill, or at worst, as floating ghost nets in the oceans.

Scoop Ocean Flowerpot recently won a 2022 Prize Designs for Modern Furniture + Lighting from Global Design News and The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design.

The philosophy behind Manga Street is that as a producing company there is an obligation to find new solutions so that plastic does not end up in our marine environments.

Scoop Ocean Flowerpot is made from ocean plastic derived from recycled fishing nets, resulting up to 1,64 km of reused fish line.

This ocean plastic is UV protected and so the flowerpots can be used for many years.

Project: Scoop Ocean Flowerpot
Designers: Manga Street ApS
Lead Designer: Julie Storm
Collaborators: Plastix A/S, Beologic NV, and the Ocean Plastic Forum
Manufacturer: Manga Street ApS.
Photographers: Anna-Lene Riber