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Designer Dirk van der Kooij makes cool, modern-looking plastic furniture out of defunct refrigerators and other plastic waste. The plastic is ground up, then squeezed out like soft serve into a computerized pattern.

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The cheapest of the chairs, a child-sized rocker, costs over $600. But let’s be real: Could you DIY this out of a refrigerator? Yeah, I thought not.