Unique, Wood and Leather Waste Turned into a Product that's Sold For Hundreds of Thousands Rupiah

TRIBUNBATAM.id - The creativity of youth generation in this country seems never endless. One of them is seen from the various product creations that produced by utilizing waste.

This is done by Eastwood, one of the UKM that processes the wood waste and leather waste into products that are sold at hundreds of thousands of rupiah.

What is the story of Eastwood leather and wood products?

Eastwood is one of the pioneers of wooden eyewear brands in Indonesia, which was established in early 2013 and already has its own shop in Solo, Central Java. 

A wooden sunglasses is priced around IDR 585,000-IDR 615,000. Meanwhile, the Trap bag sells for Rp 645,000.

"We use wood waste into wood glasses and now, we are trying to widen the product into leather waste as well," Noor Wiwid Wijayanto, Online and Offline Publisher, said when met at the 2019 Bekraf Festival, which took place in Solo, Central Java, Friday (4/10/2019).

The man who was born in 1989, revealed, wooden glasses are the first product from Eastwood which is made from wood waste of Jati and Sono Keling type.

According to him, these two types of wood are known to be durable and not risky of breaking.  

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"We got the waste from a number of wood craftsmen, such as a guitar stand, while the glasses hinges were taken from the motorcycle parts," said Wiwid

For the wood waste that he collected, he claimed to get it from Solo, and outside the city of Solo, such as in Magetan and Ngawi. 

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The price of a wooden eyeglasses depends on the type of hinge.

"If the spring high or elastic hinges are in the range of IDR 615,000, the gearbox hinges for the motor components are around IDR 585,000," Wiwid said.

Not only that, Eastwood also accepts the custom designs of wooden glasses according to the wishes of the consumers. (*)

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