Play is a fundamental activity for children and is playing a vital role in theirdevelopment. During this process, toys are important props for them. With theirchildren’s best interests at heart, parents are buying their children new toysrestlessly. However on the other hand, with every new toy being produced theenvironment would have to suffer more from energy-exploitation. Looking fromboth children and environment’s perspective, is there a more sustainable way ofplaying that could satisfy both parties? From junk to toy is a project and studybuilt to raise awareness of sustainability in children’s world and at the sametime fulfills children’s playing needs. It aims to get children playing more withhousehold recycling and get their imagination and creativity triggered duringthe process. Both research and hands-on experiments have been employedas methods to achieve the goal. The results became thoughts concerning foodpackaging design which has an intended after use as part of the primary objectives,encouraging children to play with food packaging as well as introducingsustainability subtly to people.
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