Country Road provided an initial brief and design, along with references for the required product look and feel. Injection Moulding was chosen as the method of production, and the designs were adjusted slightly to suit the manufacturing process. After approval of 3D printed prototypes, the designs proceeded to the tooling phase, and we produced the final set of 3 product moulds.

With material selection being of utmost importance, we opted for locally sourced plastic bottle caps - a waste stream destined for landfill, as the material is generally too small to be recycled via conventional methods. Keeping quality and circularity in mind, LDPE caps were selected specifically from the carefully sorted bottle tops, ensuring the integrity and future recyclability of the product.

A colour palette was selected -white and black with a gold highlight- followed by the testing and development of the production method, ensuring a premium finish and the desired tones and patterning were achieved before proceeding to full production.

The resulting products, the beautifully handcrafted 'Rooks' range, has a striking marble-like effect. The Precious Plastic Melbourne team produced a bespoke batch of 750 products, diverting roughly 20,500 plastic lids from landfill.