At last, after long hours in the lab learning and trial and error, my group and I have created something that is inevitable for it to be timeless. We created an heirloom scroll. In my opinion, what makes an item sentimental and for it to create an incentive to pass it down from generation to…
Case study presentation – Hamad
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Coin Purse – Ali, Hamad, Hilina
Firstly, we gathered the plastic bags that were offered to us in the lab (Type 2 and Type 4 plastic bags) these bags are made up of polyethylene both high and low density. We cut them up in order for them to fit the criteria and sizes for the heating press. Once we cut the…
“Caught Red Handed” – Hamad
For a while humans have laid their hands on some of the greatest blessings this earth has to offer… and sadly these blessings go by and get extremely exploited for our satisfaction. Nature just going by its normal day, until the first signs of human settlement come by with the ships and people walking along…
Hamad Bin Fahad, On Plastic Fashion
Before attending Heather’s presentation I genuinely did not know plastic was used in the making of clothes that we are able to wear. Till now this idea is a little mind-blowing to me, and for it to make sense in my mind will take some more time and research in the way these fabrics are…
Plastic Collecting at the Beach
Going there personally I felt like I would have a very unpleasant experience, because of the scorching heat from Abu Dhabi’s sun. However, as we reached the vibes were truly amazing and it wasn’t as hot as I had thought it would be because there was a nice breeze. Going there i was expecting to…
Hamad, Bio-based Plastics Reading Response
From the get-go, this reading caught my eye in the introduction when the author stated that the creation of bio-based plastics requires less energy than petroleum-based plastics. That got me thinking, why do we still almost fully depend on petroleum-based plastics? Personally what impressed me the most is the idea that everything that is…
Hamad – Adele / May 25
There are a handful of important things I feel like I have learned from adeles presentation about the company she founded, precious plastics. The idea of the business is very interesting and ethically and morally strong. She introduced to us the fact that shanghai is full of disposed plastics that end up getting disposed of…