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

two badges in one hand

Badges around the world

Shipping container converted in a workspace

Our basekamp in shipping containers

Woman drying shredded plastic

Faces of Dhaka

man swimming in a lake

We've been clearing the spring

Shredded car bumpers

Car bumpers

Script

Phone project

parts of a phone

Modular phone in progress

Dave getting a machine ready

Blueprints in the making

2 man in front of recycled sheet

First sheets from Nigeria

man watching a training on a computer

Online recycling training

Conference

Ara – DevCon

Dave's setup for the extrusion.

Prototype Extrusion

Worry bead mould for recycled plastic

Worry beads mould

green plastic sheet

Working on sheets

Containers on a truck with a forklift

Containers arrived in Portugal

Two man facing each other and talking

Jaden Smith in the workspace

Mattia on a boat looking out

To boat or not to boat?

Men building machines

Mattia doing events

Containers being unloaded

Basekamp is almost ready!

Phoneblocks

Project Ara prototype