Compression of dust pollution into jewelry

Although not as sparkling as diamond, this is a great way to recycle and good for the environment.

Jewelry is made from contaminated dust and smoke

Popular Science page (USA) reported on September 28, the internal components of the polluted dust are composed of carbon, so Daan Roosegaarde, the Dutch artist, decided to compress them into jewelry.

Each of these small cubes filtered 991 cubic meters of airborne dust - (Screenshot from Roosegaarde's project website).

Roosegaarde has designed a tower called Smog Free Tower, which separates the components in the smog, and with a height of 7 meters this air filter system will clean the air in parks and public areas. His company is currently launching a fundraising campaign on the Kickstarter website from July 22, with the goal of collecting $ 54,000 to build a test version of the system.

The tower handling this dust will be displayed in Rotterdam, the Netherlands in September and Roosegaarde hopes to expand the system to other cities. It is known that Roosegaarde was the person behind the glowing highway project in the Netherlands, with the aim of saving energy and costs from street lamps.

The technology he uses in the Smog Free Tower is based on the air purification system in hospitals. This filter tower will produce 3,500 cubes of compressed cubes every day, provided that there are 991 cubic meters of compressed dust in each area, which means the tower has It can filter nearly 3.5 million cubic meters of air.

Smog Free Tower tower drawings - Screenshot from the Roosegaarde project website

These tablets will be turned into jewelry such as rings or cufflinks and donated to the benefactors of this project on Kickstarter according to the value they contributed to the fund. It is known that to make these tablets, each Roosegaarde system will need up to 1,700 Watt of power and he says all of these systems will use solar energy.