Kohler WasteLab bathroom sink
Kohler’s manufacturing waste reuse business, KOHLER WasteLAB, announces its first bathroom sink, constructed of more than 70 percent recycled materials.
The materials have been repurposed and reused to create a one-of-a-kind Vox sink, diverting manufacturing waste from landfills.
The Kohler WasteLAB Vox handcrafted bathroom sink features a soft minimalist form, offered in a vessel style, with a stone-like aesthetic that is unique to each sink. The sink’s production uses an innovative recycling process with both ceramic and cast iron waste, making each piece a truly unique creation.
“The new WasteLAB Vox sink is not only a new category for our WasteLAB business, but also a completely new material set,” Monty Stauffer, Kohler WasteLAB lead industrial designer, product and process. "This will allow us to look at a wider range of products that can reuse waste and help reach our goal of zero waste to landfill, as well as providing consumers with another path for sustainable living.”
Since 2017, KOHLER WasteLAB has been looking for ways to reimagine waste using nature as a model for sustainable processes – within nature’s cycle of growth and decay, waste simply doesn’t exist.
WasteLab said it maps out waste streams from products to see where they came from and what they are made of. From 2019 through 2023, sales of KOHLER WasteLAB tile have diverted more than 73,426 pounds of waste from landfills while demonstrating Kohler's commitment to achieving net-zero waste to landfill by 2035.
“The sink has the look and feel of natural granite or polished stone, tying together a sense of high design with materials that previously were considered scrap,” Stauffer said. “What we do at KOHLER WasteLAB is a game changer on how people will look at waste moving forward.”
