plastic waste from the beach

Jul 10, 2025

Ocean Plastic

We spend only 15 minutes on the beach picking up plastic. Another hour to sort it out though. WINNERS: flip-flops, bottle caps, and straws.

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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

Keychains made from recycled plastic

Keychains made with the injector

Shipping container converted in a workspace

Our basekamp in shipping containers

Magazine cover

Coverboy

Shredded car bumpers

Car bumpers

Dutch Queen shaking hands with Dave

Solid handshake

parts of a phone

Modular phone in progress

Dave in Silicon Valley

Phoneblocks worldwide

man wiring cables for recycling machine

Late wiring

Colourful beams

Working on beams

Woman drying shredded plastic

Faces of Dhaka

Dave's setup for the extrusion.

Prototype Extrusion

Extrusion machine

Extrusion hacks

man and children talking about plastic

Kenya visit

portrait of a man

First helper

Woman working on a lathe

Carolina making stuff in the workspace

Extrusion machine

Design of the year nominee

Little girl playing with recycled plastic

Experimenting in Taiwan

Dave on TV!

DWDD

A pan and a strainer to dye with avocado

Avocado dyeing in Barcelona