Man surrounded by plastic bottles
Jul 10, 2025

One year without using plastic bottles

Mission accomplished 🥳

At the beginning of 2018 I set out to buy, use or accept zero plastic bottles or bags.

This picture portrays me with 173 plastic bottles which equals to the average number of bottles used by a single sapiens in a year. Times 7 billions. You get the idea.
This year I have been super lucky to travel to incredible and remote places. Colombian jungle, Brazilian rainforest or Marocco where water is not always accessible. But with a bit of preparation, the right tools (reusable glass and metal bottles, tote bags and backpack) and an untouchable perseverance I managed to pull out of my plastic addiction and reduce my contribution to the plastic mess.

This upcoming year join the #zeroplasticresolution it's fun and feels good 💪

A moment from
Mattia

More moments

kinds pants fixed and repaired

First fixes from people

Crate storage

Crate Storage

Fixed pants

New fixes from Estonia

Rocket Stove

DIY aluminum moulds

Microplastics

Microplastics

Lunch

Lunch

Woman working on a lathe

Carolina making stuff in the workspace

Woman drying shredded plastic

Faces of Dhaka

Shipping container converted in a workspace

Our basekamp in shipping containers

Precious Plastic and Grameen team posing for a picture

Precious Plastic meets Yunus Muhammad

3D drawing of the sheetpress

How to make a 1.5 m Sheetpress

Hand holding an envelop

We have shipped the first One Army rewards!

Precious Plastic CE Certified Shredder

CE Certified Shredder

two vans and two man in a field

Basekamp is growing

green plastic sheet

Working on sheets

Yellow Van parked in tuscany

Driving to Project Kamp!

man and children talking about plastic

Kenya visit

Broken camera pieces

Broken camera

man washing some plastic

New washing system

man swimming in a lake

We've been clearing the spring