Finally, a lamp for obsessive bottle cap collectors.

I’ve lusted after Lula Dot’s creations before, so it should come as no surprise that I’m crushing so majorly on the CAPtivate. Designer Lucy Norman took into consideration that only 5.5% of plastic bottles sold in the UK are recycled. Bottle caps, meanwhile, are generally not recycled at all because they are made from an altogether different plastic from the bottles themselves.

Lucy designed the CAPtivate to illuminate this waste, both figuratively and literally, by turning tossed out bottle caps into something a bit more ambient. Each light comes with 50 caps; to cover the light completely, however, it requires some reuse by you. Consider it an opportunity to channel your inner Edison – or your essential Tesla – while greening up a patch of landfill.

The CAPtivate retails internationally for £128.00, approximately $206 in the United States.

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Lucy Norman, founder of Lula Dot, rescues cast-off materials and makes treasured objects.

UK-based designer Lucy Norman of Lula Dot upcycles London’s waste as a way of encouraging “emotional attachment” between consumers and their objects. She works with a range of materials, including the Literary Canon, which you might have abandoned in college.
When old books are sent to charity shops, they often end up being sent to landfills. Lucy rescues these would-be trashed pages and turns them into stunning ceiling art by folding each in half and creating a circular arrangement, which she then hangs around a ceiling light.

“More books are printed every year, read and discarded…[and] there is currently no infrastructure set up to recycle the paper,” she writes on her website, where you can purchase the Light Reading Chandelier for £340 in the UK.

At the risk of sounding cheesy, that’s what we call “well read.”

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