Dezeen Debate features “incredible” ice cream made from plastic

The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features the first food made from plastic waste by designer Eleonora Ortolani. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now.

As part of her final-year project at Central Saint Martins designer Eleonora Ortolani produced what she thinks is the first food made from plastic waste. With the help of scientists, Ortolani turned a small amount of plastic into Vanillin, the flavour molecule in Vanilla.

Commenters were split, one was fascinated by the “incredible idea”. Whereas another thought the use of plastic in food was a “bad idea” due to it being a “cancerous agent”.

Other stories in this week’s newsletter that fired up the comments section included Studio Gang’s plans for the extensions of the Clinton Presidential Center, a family home in Surrey featuring a steeply-pitched roof by Rural Office and a learning centre in Denmark designed by Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter.

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