waste in the Maldives

Jul 10, 2025

Exotic waste

Exploring exotic waste streams in the Maldives.

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kinds pants fixed and repaired

First fixes from people

Storyhopper video covers

Story Hopper 1 Year

Pallet with disassembled machine

Flatpack Sheetpress

Worry bead mould for recycled plastic

Worry beads mould

Dutch Queen shaking hands with Dave

Solid handshake

Dave on TV!

DWDD

Dave's setup for the extrusion.

Prototype Extrusion

Precious Plastic injection machine

Customised Injection machine

Group of people serving food

Precious Plastic Version 4 team enjoying a vegan lunch

Badged.

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Dumpsterdiving

Dumpsterdiving

3D drawing of the sheetpress

How to make a 1.5 m Sheetpress

woman wearing a repaired summer dress

Upgraded summer dress

Team collecting bottles in front of a dumpsite

Collecting thousands of plastic bottles for an installation at Glow

men in front of recycling machine

Sheetpress in London

Girls running Precious Plastic machines

Machines in Taiwan

Phonebloks models

Found these old models when cleaning up

Men in Korea

Upcycling center Korea

Woman facing camera

BBC show

Extrusion machine

Design of the year nominee