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

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Arrived in the land

Boijmans museum

Storyhopper in Boijmans

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Prototype Extrusion

Keychains made from recycled plastic

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Shipping container converted in a workspace

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Dave getting a machine ready

Blueprints in the making

Worry bead mould for recycled plastic

Worry beads mould

Phonebloks models

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Precious Plastic Exhibition in London

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man and children talking about plastic

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Fixed pants

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