Some of the recycled papers products shown like furniture, pencil stand, bowl etc are already available in the market and made of more durable, cheap and better looking material. That's what I think when I think of recycle. Customers don't care if their purchased commodity is eco friendly or not until and unless it's cheap. That is not likely in recycle. Make things out of something that is not meant to make it. But that's just me. What do you think?
i think it depends globally where you live. I grew up watching artists, musicians, and literary writers create all kinds of stuff in Michigan. These tend to be more small business owners of course and a tourist area. I think it depends on the quality of the item, what it looks like of course, and whether you have customers in a certain geographical location that may be into that kind of product.
Naturally some of these home made products are not up to par for mass distribution. And it's always looking at the store. As there used to be this store i would always go buy things and it was artsy, designer stuff, and might be something recycled or not, but distribution and pricing comes down to where your buying the product and mass quantities.
As most waste goes to shops and stores and sold way cheaper then you would find at top notch stores. I kind of have to chuckle, because you can find top dollar items for cheap as i have a long the way, and then you can pay top dollar for the same thing.
You have to know your materials, cost, supplies, and all that jazz, but it's difficult to come up with products all the time that earth friendly, clean up the earth, and not have the start up costs be more then value of the item. As I know I've been told some green stuff costs more money to run then it's actually making any profit off of it in the industry.
i know products in stores are usually scanned to know what people are buying in that geographical area. As three towns next door to one another can sell totally different items because the population in those areas may be different tastes by culture alone and still be the same chain of stores.
The Forum is more upscale, but then you have other markets that may be flea markets, craft shows, arts shows. I've gone to a lot of events that you have many distributors at the same time selling stuff at big arena's.
You can say what market and platform are you using offline or online. Since I know there are many. As I met a woman that made popcorn and had a special recipe and ended up on QVC and selling at a chain of stores.
And this is usually how it is done. You invent a product and it might not always be in a store right away, but then it might be seen in a certain place and then naturally if there is the trend starting, everyone wants one and than it expands to greater mass production and distributed.
I worked in a coffee factory once and had to package it, and of course those coffee's were private recipe's, and were local. Now a days you have greater expansion online.
When you are talking about recycling it's kind of inventing something new and it aims for the recycling crowd. Naturally if it is a product they feel is note worthy, it will get around.
Pretty much you know the product has to be quality and affordable and to make a profit off it. It's basically like the light bulb invention, it is figuring out what works and doesn't work. You never know until you try different things and see what comes out of it. And it might be trying a smaller market and seeing how they react to it and whether it's workable to expand to mass production and meets your expectations.