With 3.4 million tonnes of waste already going into landfills every year, and this figure growing as fast as our population, we look to students for inspiration on positive ways to upcycle our junk.

Every year young students’ through-out Auckland respond to the challenge: What would you create if you couldn’t buy anything new? Using their imagination, the students take inorganic and organic materials, stuff usually just thrown away, and transform it into moveable pieces of art and high fashion.