Cruise Line Turning Used Ship Parts Into Souvenirs

Holland America Line is recycling carpet from their cruise ships and turning it into memento coasters that you could purchase whereas on a cruise.

The cruise line partnered with the Danish carpet producer Dansk Wilton for the coaster. They’re the primary recycled carpet product ever supplied on the market within the cruise business.

The corporate has made 12,000 coasters from the carpet on three Holland America ships: Oosterdam, Eurodam and Nieuw Amsterdam.

They are going to be obtainable for buy on all Holland America Line ships by the top of October 2025.

They’re made utilizing Dansk Wilton’s progressive ReBond materials — the identical upcycled textile utilized in Holland America Line’s architectural signage — and exhibit how round design can rework waste into particular, useful merchandise.

The coasters are a part of Dansk’s pioneering Re:Form initiative, a sustainability-focused design program geared toward discovering methods to remodel and reuse carpet waste.

Along with coasters, future plans for the challenge embody utilizing Holland America Line carpet waste to create notebooks, postcards, “don’t disturb” door indicators, art work and different objects that shall be offered on board.

My Nguyen, director of inside design at Holland America Line, gave the next assertion:

“This challenge displays our ongoing journey towards extra sustainable practices. These coasters are a tangible instance of how discarded sources will be given a second life within the very surroundings they got here from. We’re proud to be the primary within the business to associate with Dansk and innovate carpet waste into stunning usable merchandise that our friends can take pleasure in.”