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At Sungai Design, every product begins long before it reaches our workshop. It starts in the rivers of Indonesia, where waste is collected daily by our sister organisation, Sungai Watch. What we design is only possible because of the work that happens upstream, the work of stopping pollution before it reaches the ocean.
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Every day, thousands of kilograms of waste arrive at Sungai Watch’s sorting stations. Our team manually separates it into over 30 categories by type, quality, and recyclability. This labour-intensive step ensures every batch is consistent, safe, and traceable. Once sorted, the materials are washed, dried, and prepared for processing.
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Once sorted and cleaned, the Sungai Materials enters our Sungai Design workshop in Bali, where we test the best ways to up-cycle each material. Most of our work uses heat-pressing to turn plastic into hard, durable sheets. We then use the precision of CNC technology to cut the sheets into precise panels and pieces.
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Our products are carefully polished and assembled by our talented artisans. Different pieces are seamlessly fused together to create clean, seamless forms. At Sungai Design, craftsmanship and ethics go hand in hand. Every piece is made from river waste collected across Indonesia and built to last. Each product represents the collective work of a team committed to design, quality, and leaving our rivers cleaner than we found them.