Weez & Merl

28/05/2026

Too good to waste! Every now and then we make one-off boards from excess recycled plastic from projects, colour tests and samples. We’ve made up a new batch of these unique pieces - have a rifle through our highlights for different sizes and colourways.

What can I do with these marbleous creations we hear you ask? Here are some ideas:

- Side table-top
- Dining or coffee table centrepiece
- Plant stand
- Serving tray
- Clock face (if you’re handy)
- Cut in half for shelves (if you’re handy)

If you’d like us to cut and sand the edges we can do that too, or cut in half, or drill holes, as per the above suggestions!





ecofriendlyfurniture

16/04/2026

A coffee tabletop we made for a client recently.

Blues, greys and black in a very natural looking marbling style. Absolutely love the complementary wisps of orange veins!

02/04/2026

Thanking the sunshine for bringing a splash of Spring today 🌞

Spot the recycled plastic bags in these Mandarin coasters 🍊

26/03/2026

A quarter of a tonne of single-use waste plastic went into these 19 tabletops - equivalent to around 10,000 bags for life! The waste came from local businesses in Brighton & Hove, including packaging from the bar industry, clothing retailers, and carpet and fabric shops.

We revisited a few weeks ago for a quick spruce up after 3 years of heavy cafe & restaurant use. They’ve held up incredibly well, developing the same kind of patina that you would expect from a natural material like wood. We fixed some air pockets that had been there from the start (which we didn’t know how to fix at the time!), and tidied a few scuffed edges.

When it’s time - probably in another few years - we’ll come back and do a full restoration service, sanding the tops back and polishing them up to be good as new.

The beauty in this material is that we can repeat this restoration for decades to come, or even remelt the tabletops to be turned into something completely new!

Feauturing gorgeous forged recycled steel legs by 👏

29/01/2026

Last summer we had the pleasure of working with studio to make a bespoke dining tabletop for her client in our colourway Sand Peony. This piece was our largest tabletop to date at 2400 x 1150mm and 30mm thickness, and it weighs a whopping 76kg.. that's about 5500 plastic bags!

This was a real moment for us - we've always wanted to make big tabletops like this!

Not even including prepping all the plastic, it took a whole month and four test presses to get it right: tweaking the marbling, as well as the formation and weights of the individual masses of plastic on the bed of the press... but finally we did it!!

We are so pleased to finally share this with you all, and look back on the epic journey.

Thanks to Olivia and her wonderful team, and of course the lovely clients 💚♻️

10/01/2026

Happy to share another W&M & Thomas Gontar collab - some bar stools, sitting pretty in their new home.

Beautiful shots by the great 🙏🏻

19/12/2025

GLASS POPPY BACK IN STOCK ♥️

Anyone needing last minute pressies, if you choose express delivery this weekend they will still get to you in time!

Hope everyone has a fabulous Christmas and Haaaappy New Year ✨

07/12/2024

ANGELA'S OF MARGATE TABLETOPS

Our very first tabletop project back in 2017 was for the opening of this brilliant sustainable seafood restaurant over in the seaside town of Margate, Kent, founded by Lee & Charlotte, and head chef Rob.

This project was special in many ways: not just because these were the first tabletops we ever made, but this was also when I, Louise, first roped my sister Merl into the strange world of plastic recycling. I needed a lot of help to tackle the 210kg of waste plastic for this project, and even though we had always wanted to work together somehow, this was the first time Merl took her hand to working with the plastic, and, luckily, she absolutely loved it. Just a few months later she quit her job and we formed Weez & Merl!

After nearly 8 years years of use, Lee messaged us and said the tables could do with a refurb. Even though they were beautiful, there were a lot of things we didn't know when we made them all those years ago, so there were airpockets and cracks that needed filling - actually, a complete resurfacing was needed - it really was a massive challenge to fix them. But after a lot of hard work, the tables have now entered into their second phase of life and are back in their home at Angela's looking better than ever. 

Here are a few pics we took of the tables when we went over to Margate this weekend. This was the first time we've visited, and we were treated to the most delicious, local, sustainable sea food we have ever eaten, both at Angela's, and their sister small-plates seafood bar Dory's round the corner. If you can go, we could not recommend them highly enough! We also got to stay in Angela's gorgeous rooms above the restaurant, which are kitted out with eco-concious materials top-to-toe and made the whole trip even more special.

We definitely won't wait another 8 years for our next visit to Margate!! Thank you so much to Lee & Charlotte and their fab teams at and for a fantastic few days. And more importantly, thank you for taking a chance on recycled plastic all those years ago!

31/08/2024