Farvel, Goodbye Single use

Farvel, Goodbye Single use

Why These products Should BeYourLastObject

by Neha Suradkar

Sustainability is not only about what raw materials are used for making a product and how it can be disposed of, but it is also about how long it can be used. A sustainable chair is not one made of cardboard; it is the one that has lasted for decades, that has been used in multiple homes, and sold between families. Working on the same concept of sustainability, LastObject offers you sustainable solutions for everyday one-time use items.

Isabel Aagaard (Co-Founder of LastObject) grew up in a little town outside of Copenhagen in a family of design entrepreneurs. She has a Master’s degree from the Royal Academy of Design in Collaborative Design and a Bachelor’s degree in Digital Media and Design from the IT University.

She has worked in the hospital segment, designing everything from bags for patients to take their chemotherapy treatments home into an entire maternity ward. The Aagaard family is into businesses in which every family member can be involved at some stage. So starting LastObject with her brother happened very naturally to Isabel.

Isabel, who was designing medical equipment, Nicolas Aagaard (Isabel’s brother), and Kaare Frandsen, who was into furniture design, were all not very happy with their jobs.

They wanted to do something meaningful for the environment and started researching single-use items that were the most harmful to the planet. They found that cotton swabs were surprisingly high on this list.

Mainly because people didn’t discard them properly. As these are so small, if flushed down the toilet, cotton swabs usually don’t get caught by filtration systems and are dumped directly into the ocean, later ending up in the stomach of sea creatures.

The trio felt that by working on a sustainable option for this, they could positively impact marine life and reduce single-use pollution. They started working on creating durable reusables like swabs, tissues, cotton pads, etc. so that you never have to buy single use products again. This product becomes your last swab, your last tissue, your last cotton round, and hence came the brand name— LastObject.

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