Designers used e-scooters tossed in rivers to make furniture, proving junk can find purpose

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The canals of Malmö, Sweden, hold all kinds of oddities. Like many urban waterways, they are strewn with discarded shopping carts, bikes, and dead electric scooters that have been sitting in the water for as long as two years. Many people would discount them as trash, but for one group of designers, trash became treasure.