Origin · From bottle to object

This is our supply chain.

Most "recycled" home goods buy pre-made filament from someone, somewhere — and call it sustainability. We don't. We collect the bottles ourselves from our Hudson County neighborhood. We wash them, shred them, extrude our own filament, and print every piece. Five steps, one workshop, one block.

Single-use PET water bottles collected from local recycling streams

01 · Collect

PET water bottles from local recycling streams in Hudson County. PLA scrap from partner makerspaces in Brooklyn. Sorted by color so the gemstone palette — Sapphire, Emerald, Crystal — comes from the bottles themselves, not a dye bath.

Sapphire PET washed and prepared in the workshop

02 · Clean

Bottles get rinsed of residue, label adhesive, and contamination. Cleaned at the studio, dried under heat. This is the step most "recycled" brands skip — and the reason ours can be re-recycled at end of life.

Shredded Sapphire PET flakes ready for extrusion

03 · Shred

Cleaned bottles are mechanically shredded into uniform flake — the raw input for extrusion. Each batch carries the slight color variation of the original waste stream. We don't dye over it. The brand IS the variation.

Filament extrusion in action — heated nozzle drawing 1.75 mm strand

04 · Extrude

Recycled material goes into the extruder. Out comes 1.75 mm filament — the same form factor any 3D printer takes, but ours. Made in-house, traceable to the bottle.

Coiled 1.75 mm filament — the in-house product, ready to print

05 · Print

Each piece is finished by hand — brim removed, base smoothed, numbered card inserted, photographed. Then it ships from Jersey City.

From process to product —
we are a part of every step.

This is our supply chain.

See what we made with it.