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

Dave's setup for the extrusion.

Prototype Extrusion

Containers on a truck with a forklift

Containers arrived in Portugal

Badged.

Badges are here!

Extrusion machine

Extrusion machine photoshoot

Storyhopper video covers

Story Hopper 1 Year

Scrapyard

Hardware store

blue lamp made from recycled plastic

Lamps made in Korea

Yellow Van parked in tuscany

Driving to Project Kamp!

machines packed

Transport approved

Injection machine

Injector in Sri Lanka

Containers being unloaded

Basekamp is almost ready!

Keychains made from recycled plastic

Keychains made with the injector

Extrusion machine

Extrusion hacks

Shipping container converted in a workspace

Our basekamp in shipping containers

D&AD Award

D&AD Award

Conference

Ara – DevCon

Precious Plastic injection machine

Customised Injection machine

Hand holding an envelop

We have shipped the first One Army rewards!

Phoneblocks community map

Phoneblocks Community

Woman working on a lathe

Carolina making stuff in the workspace