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

A moment from
Mattia

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Bright magazine cover

Bright cover

plastic waste from the beach

Ocean Plastic

man washing some plastic

New washing system

Extrusion machine

Design of the year nominee

Broken camera pieces

Broken camera

CE certified plate

CE Certified

2 man in front of recycled sheet

First sheets from Nigeria

Worry bead mould for recycled plastic

Worry beads mould

Phonebloks models

Found these old models when cleaning up

Two man facing each other and talking

Jaden Smith in the workspace

Phonebloks ad in London street

Ad in London

woman in front of a pile of recycled clothes

Our old clothes heading to Africa

Scrapyard

Cable Paradise

Green ex german army mercedes ambulance 609D converted to a camper parked on a land

Arrived in the land

Men building machines

Mattia doing events

Containers being unloaded

Basekamp is almost ready!

Dave's setup for the extrusion.

Prototype Extrusion

Phoneblocks

Project Ara prototype

Containers on a truck with a forklift

Containers arrived in Portugal

Woman working on a lathe

Carolina making stuff in the workspace