waste in the Maldives

Jul 10, 2025

Exotic waste

Exploring exotic waste streams in the Maldives.

A moment from

Dave

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Team collecting bottles in front of a dumpsite

Collecting thousands of plastic bottles for an installation at Glow

kinds pants fixed and repaired

First fixes from people

2 man in front of recycled sheet

First sheets from Nigeria

Scrapyard

Cable Paradise

Extrusion machine

Extrusion machine photoshoot

Two man facing each other and talking

Jaden Smith in the workspace

Phonebloks ad in London street

Ad in London

Dave in Silicon Valley

Phoneblocks worldwide

man washing some plastic

New washing system

Man working on a recycling extruder machine

Brick making training

Conference

Ara – DevCon

parts of a phone

Modular phone in progress

Plastic recycled plastic knife handle.

Plastic Knife

Dave's setup for the extrusion.

Prototype Extrusion

3 people holding a sheet of recycled plastic

Recycled sheets research

scrapy can

Plastic on land

Storyhopper video covers

Story Hopper 1 Year

Crate storage

Crate Storage

Men building machines

Mattia doing events

Precious Plastic and Grameen team posing for a picture

Precious Plastic meets Yunus Muhammad