The brilliant Schulze & Webb have done it again with the Metal Phone, a completely recyclable cell phone enclosure developed for Nokia. The project is a complete cradle-to-cradle life cycle process: a cell phone encased in a lead alloy (ok, solder) can be disassembled and melted down to be re-cast into a new cell phone in an injection molding machine (below). As for recyclability, it’s ideal: a material that retains its quality through repeated, theoretically infinite life cycles. As for toxics, it could use a little help…
