Hamee’s Plastic Recycling Service Parallel Plastics Launches Material Library

Hamee Corporation’s plastic recycling service Parallel Plastics launched its online material archive, Material Library, on May 12, 2026. The archive serves as a web-based sample book where materials created through previous co-creation projects can be compared by color and raw material, supporting brands and manufacturers that want to take the first step toward using unwanted plastic. Under the concept “Not sorted, therefore beautiful,” Parallel Plastics melts and blends unwanted plastics with different compositions, turning the mixture itself into unique patterns. The resulting materials have irregular, natural-stone-like expressions, with no two pieces alike. The service handles the full process from concept planning to product design, transforming unwanted plastic, together with its origin story, into products. Past co-creation examples include turning unused plastic from baby bottle manufacturing into medal-shaped photo frames, and recycling cosmetic containers collected in stores into cosmetic combs in collaboration with a department store and cosmetics brand. Parallel Plastics won the 2025 Good Design Award. The newly launched Material Library is a web archive that allows users to browse plastic recycling materials by color and source material, while comparing the original unwanted plastic with its renewed appearance. Hamee plans to continue adding new materials to the library whenever new products are created with co-creation partners. The name “Parallel” reflects the company’s aim to open another path in parallel with conventional recycling, which is based on sorting and virgin materials. Parallel Plastics repurposes obsolete inventory, manufacturing offcuts, and similar materials into valuable products through fresh perspectives and design, with the goal of achieving “100% recycled, zero-emission manufacturing.”