man on beach with plastic waste
Jul 10, 2025

Recycling plastic in Hawaii

For the past couple of weeks we've been in Honolulu, Hawaii. We're here setting up a project recycling all of that plastic waste washed ashore from the Ocean. And let me tell there's tons of it.

We set up a small recycling project with a shredder, injection and extrusion. More details soon.

A moment from
Joseph

More moments

Pallet with disassembled machine

Flatpack Sheetpress

Dutch Queen shaking hands with Dave

Solid handshake

ewaste

Researching components

Dave getting a machine ready

Blueprints in the making

woman in front of a pile of recycled clothes

Our old clothes heading to Africa

Dave's setup for the extrusion.

Prototype Extrusion

plastic waste from the beach

Ocean Plastic

Injection machine

Machinery in Indonesia

man wiring cables for recycling machine

Late wiring

Colourful waterfilters

Waterfilters by Taller Esfèrica in Spain

Sheetpress machine

Playful Sheetpress

Precious Plastic and Grameen team posing for a picture

Precious Plastic meets Yunus Muhammad

Recycled plastic hydroponic vase

Extruded hydroponic vase

three man posing

Nigerian connections

man swimming in a lake

We've been clearing the spring

Woman standing on landfill

Precious Plastic pilot #3 in the Maldives

woman wearing a repaired summer dress

Upgraded summer dress

Extrusion machine

Design of the year nominee

Man working on a recycling extruder machine

Brick making training

2 man in front of recycled sheet

First sheets from Nigeria