ORIGEN — Sustainably different. Lighting and objects from Jersey City water bottles.

We take responsibility for the full life of every object we make.

Most home goods are made from materials that can't be recovered, by suppliers you can't visit, in factories an ocean away. The lifecycle ends when you throw it away — and roughly 9% of plastic ever produced has actually been recycled. ORIGEN is built to invert that. We collect single-use plastic from one Hudson County neighborhood. We wash it, shred it, extrude our own filament, and print every piece in one Jersey City workshop. When you're finished with what we made you, we take it back and make it again.

Behind ORIGEN.

ORIGEN was founded by Geoff LaCorte in Jersey City in 2026. Geoff also runs Liberti Lab, a design and engineering studio on the same block. ORIGEN is the consumer-facing arm of that work — physical objects you can buy, made entirely from material we recover ourselves, by hand, in our space. We didn't start a brand to sell more things. We started ORIGEN because the things being sold are mostly indefensible.

Discover our objects →

Top-down view: a purple TacTile lattice with a crushed PET bottle in the same color resting on top — input and output side by side

Designed in Jersey City.

Every form starts as a sketch on the studio wall at 98 Forrest. We design with hand, eye, and printer — no off-the-shelf molds, no factory templates, no compromises smuggled in by a supply chain we can't see.

Green PET bottle standing on a matching green TacTile — input and output, same material, same color

Made on one block.

We collect single-use water bottles from our Hudson County neighborhood. We wash them, shred them, and extrude our own filament. Every step happens within walking distance of where the object was conceived.

Sapphire ORIGEN vases fresh off the printer bed

Machine made, human finished.

Each piece is spiral-printed on machines we maintain ourselves. There's no production line. Just one piece, then the next. The lines you see in the wall of every ORIGEN object are the literal record of one continuous helical extrusion.

ORIGEN-made filament being extruded from recycled PET

New material made.