Woman standing on landfill
Jul 10, 2025

Precious Plastic pilot #3 in the Maldives

We made a plastic recycling container on an island in the Maldives 🌴 in collaboration with @parley.tv

After two years of designing, building, tweaking, pivoting, shipping and everything that comes with pushing the limits of plastic recycling in January @davehakkens Charlotte and Jerry went to Male and trained locals.
The recycling container is now a research center to find solutions for ocean plastic 🌊

More on preciousplastic.com/en/pilots/maldives

A moment from
Mattia

More moments

ewaste

Researching components

note

Just a nice note

Worry bead mould for recycled plastic

Worry beads mould

CE certified plate

CE Certified

darning repair on a sock

Socks darning repair

three man posing

Nigerian connections

man wiring cables for recycling machine

Late wiring

Containers on a truck with a forklift

Containers arrived in Portugal

Shipping container converted in a workspace

Our basekamp in shipping containers

Broken camera pieces

Broken camera

Magazine cover

Coverboy

machines packed

Transport approved

Dumpsterdiving

Dumpsterdiving

Extrusion machine

Extrusion hacks

Fixed pants

New fixes from Estonia

plastic waste from the beach

Ocean Plastic

Woman drying shredded plastic

Faces of Dhaka

two vans and two man in a field

Basekamp is growing

Badged.

Badges are here!

Precious Plastic injection machine

Customised Injection machine