The Best Ideas At N.Y.C.’s Design Month Are Garbage

“The trend isn’t just being instigated by companies and designers,” Salvage Lab founder Charlotte Sunnen says. “It has become very clear that there is a strong desire coming from customers to change their habits and to consume in a different way. People have become far more aware and interested in knowing where their products come from and where they will go next…We still want to consume products, we still want beauty and exclusivity, but I think we want to do it in a vastly different, more conscientious way.