Cafe takes recycling trend to new level

Located on a small alley off Hang Tre Street in Hanoi’s Old Quarter, 95 per cent of the items at the Hidden Gem Coffee have been recycled.
Cafe takes recycling trend to new level ảnh 1Located on a small alley of Hàng Tre Street in Hanoi’s Old Quarter, 95 percent of the items at the Hidden Gem Coffee have been recycled (Photo: Vietnam+)
Cafe takes recycling trend to new level ảnh 2The coffee shop has four floors and each has a distinctive design (Photo: Vietnam+)
Cafe takes recycling trend to new level ảnh 3Many discarded plastic bottles have been used to decorate the ceiling, creating an eye-catching look (Photo: Vietnam+)
Cafe takes recycling trend to new level ảnh 4Owner of the shop, Nguyen Van Tho has spent time decorating the shop with his creativeness and meticulousness (Photo: Vietnam+)
Cafe takes recycling trend to new level ảnh 5Discarded wheels, wheel parts and plastic items have been turned into interior decorations at the coffee shop (Photo: Vietnam+)
Cafe takes recycling trend to new level ảnh 6The idea to build this unique cafe came to 35-year-old Nguyen Van Tho after he saw the serious pollution in his hometown in Yen Phong, Bac Ninh province, where a lot of waste and sewage are dumped into the river (Photo: Vietnam+)
Cafe takes recycling trend to new level ảnh 7Nguyen Van Tho explained that the name of the café represents its core value. ‘It comes from the teaching of my grandmother that we should not hastily throw anything away, but consider it carefully, and maybe we can discover its unexpected values.’ (Photo: Vietnam+)
Cafe takes recycling trend to new level ảnh 8‘From the moment I got the idea to making it real, it was such a long process. Two friends and I travelled to many places, Bac Ninh, Hoa Binh, Phu Tho, etc., to search for things in many scrap shops and even landfills to get discarded items, bring them back, study and try to incorporate them into a design for the coffee shop,’ Tho said (Photo: Vietnam+)
Cafe takes recycling trend to new level ảnh 9The cafe attracts a lot of foreigners (Photo: Vietnam+)
Cafe takes recycling trend to new level ảnh 10Dragonfly made from discarded plastic bottles (Photo: Vietnam+)
Cafe takes recycling trend to new level ảnh 11The mural paintings on the wall leave a good impression on customers (Photo: Vietnam+)
Cafe takes recycling trend to new level ảnh 12(Photo: Vietnam+)
Cafe takes recycling trend to new level ảnh 13(Photo: Vietnam+)
Cafe takes recycling trend to new level ảnh 14(Photo: Vietnam+)
Cafe takes recycling trend to new level ảnh 15(Photo: Vietnam+)
Cafe takes recycling trend to new level ảnh 16(Photo: Vietnam+)
Cafe takes recycling trend to new level ảnh 17The coffee shop has four floors and each has a distinctive design (Photo: Vietnam+)
Cafe takes recycling trend to new level ảnh 18(Photo: Vietnam+)
Cafe takes recycling trend to new level ảnh 19Bicycle wheels and old plastic bottles are key decorative items (Photo: Vietnam+)
Cafe takes recycling trend to new level ảnh 20(Photo: Vietnam+)
Cafe takes recycling trend to new level ảnh 21These benches are made from discarded bed frames and an old, broken motorbike becomes a table (Photo: Vietnam+)
Cafe takes recycling trend to new level ảnh 22(Photo: Vietnam+)
Cafe takes recycling trend to new level ảnh 23(Photo: Vietnam+)
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