Gomi

Gomi, a design studio based in Brighton, is recycling old Barbie dolls into colourful electronic gadgets such as speakers and accessories. The studio melts down the plastic toys and reshapes them into marbled, vibrant products, giving non-recyclable waste a second life. Coverage highlights it as a playful example of sustainable design turning nostalgic plastic waste into usable tech.

Kitanakagusuku village in Okinawa Prefecture is recruiting participants for an 'e-SpoGOMI' stage event combining e-sports competition with litter collection, scheduled for November 21. The format, which has spread across Japan in recent years, turns picking up trash into a team-based competitive game scored on strategy and collection results. Japanese tech and gaming media have picked up the call for entrants.