5 ideas to creatively recycle footballs

Football is the most popular sport in the world with millions of people playing it and just as many who remain with their eyes glued to the TV screens during matches. And at the center of all this frenzy there is a small sphere for the production of which a lot of resources and energy are used not to mention the exploitation of children and workers that very often happens in developing countries to produce soccer balls. But have you ever wondered what happens to them once their life cycle ends?



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Football is the most popular sport in the world with millions of people playing it and just as many who remain with their eyes glued to the TV screens during matches. And at the heart of all this frenzy is a small sphere that uses a lot of resources and energy to produce not to mention the exploitation of children and workers which very often happens in the Developing countries to produce soccer balls. But have you ever wondered what happens to them once their life cycle ends?



Most likely they will end up flooding landfills as there is no provision for them correct disposalor. But even in this case, creativity can help with ideas and projects of recycling and give new life to old footballs.

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Eco-jewelry: the Podosphairophilie

5 ideas to creatively recycle footballs

As in the case of the collection Podosphairophilie, created by the young artist, jewelry designer, Noemi Doge from which you can take inspiration if you want to try your hand at a creative recycling as . The name itself is nothing more than the combination of the Greek word podosphairos (football) and phile (the art of the collection), so called by its designer precisely because every jewel, made with hexagonal leather pieces of the footballsor coming from every corner of the world, brings with it a piece of history and it is truly a unique piece.

And in fact Noemic Doge, convinced that only looking at these products of an avant-garde jewelry made not of metals and precious stones, but with old and worn materials, one gets the impression that they have always existed, tells us that "her work offers a richness that does not come from the preciousness of the materials, but from a visual strength, primitively symbolic of the object. "

The Podosphaïrophilie collection has been exhibited in Geneva, Bern, Solothurn, London and Amsterdam and is currently on display at the Caroline Van Hoek Gallery in Brussels.

Bags: the Soccer Ball Bag

5 ideas to creatively recycle footballs

Another fashionable and very useful thing that can be made with soccer balls is a bag. A quick example is the one made in Germany with used soccer balls and relaunched on the occasion of 2010 World Cup.



5 ideas to creatively recycle footballs

La Soccer Ball Bag is made by hand by overturning an old soccer ball, while for the inside pockets, ideal for carrying the mobile phone, material recovered from the PVC tarpaulins of old trucks. Too bad it will cost those who have thought about buying it perhaps a little too much, in fact the Soccer Ball Bag is on sale on the branchhome.com site for a good 198 dollars!

Never, however, as much as the one made by Louis Vuitton and inspired by soccer balls.

5 ideas to creatively recycle footballs

Stadium Hats

5 ideas to creatively recycle footballs

If you are one of those die-hard fans who follow their favorite team to the stadium with whistles and extravagant gear, you might think well to transform the your old balloon in a hat which will also shelter you from the sun. This is the idea that came to the extravagant photographer Enrique Muda Bull. To make it, just cut the balls along the seams to create an opening for the head.

Durable football boots

5 ideas to creatively recycle footballs

And there are those who have also made some… shoes with soccer balls! Designer Sebastian E thought about it that he sewed the shoes precisely with the leather of the black and white hexagons of old soccer balls to provide a 'viable and child-resistant alternative to South America who, as you can read on his website, “use the same shoes to go to church on Sunday or play football in the streets with their friends. As a result, their shoes tear quickly and so their mothers try to stop them from playing to avoid damaging their shoes.
Looking at some children playing on an earthen field, I decided to recycle the old perforated soccer balls to make indestructible soccer shoes so that children can play soccer without worrying about their mothers ".



Furnishings

5 ideas to creatively recycle footballs

If the accessories are not enough and you want to go further, know that soccer balls are perfectly suited to the production of furniture. Don't believe it? Look here

But to reverse the concept of recycling soccer balls The Unplug Design Studio in Seoul thought about it, with a decidedly intelligent but above all useful creation, in fact the creators managed to create soccer balls, to be given to children of the Third World communities, withrecycled packaging and boxes.

5 ideas to creatively recycle footballs

The ingenious invention, which was given its name The Dream Ball, is composed of same boxes with which humanitarian aid is shipped, such as food and medicines, to developing countries. Once the boxes have performed their primary function, can be transformed, following the attached instructions, in balls or balls depending on the size, to play just those children for whom a real ball is a luxury and who cannot freely enjoy the game of football due to poverty, wars and natural disasters.

By assembling the pieces obtained from the boxes together, children can have fun creating that ball with which they will play and which can make them escape even if for a short time from their reality.

The way of recycling is truly endless ...

Gloria Mastrantonio and Simona Falasca

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