Singapore designer turns carrot cake hawker eggshells into homeware

Singaporean designer Eden Loh is repurposing discarded eggshells from a local hawker stall into sustainable homeware products. His studio, Odd M, creates items like planters and plates to give waste materials a second life.
Why it matters
This highlights the growing trend of circular economy practices in small-scale design and sustainable waste management.
Designer Eden Loh collects discarded eggshells from carrot cake hawker stall Carrot Cubes, turning them into a composite material for homeware such as planters, plates and egg trays.
Eden Loh (right) repurposes egg shells from hawker stall Carrot Cubes, run by Claire Huang (left) to make homeware goods. (Photo: Eden Loh)
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