Man surrounded by plastic bottles
Jul 10, 2025

One year without using plastic bottles

Mission accomplished 🥳

At the beginning of 2018 I set out to buy, use or accept zero plastic bottles or bags.

This picture portrays me with 173 plastic bottles which equals to the average number of bottles used by a single sapiens in a year. Times 7 billions. You get the idea.
This year I have been super lucky to travel to incredible and remote places. Colombian jungle, Brazilian rainforest or Marocco where water is not always accessible. But with a bit of preparation, the right tools (reusable glass and metal bottles, tote bags and backpack) and an untouchable perseverance I managed to pull out of my plastic addiction and reduce my contribution to the plastic mess.

This upcoming year join the #zeroplasticresolution it's fun and feels good 💪

A moment from
Mattia

More moments

Phonebloks ad in London street

Ad in London

Maldives pilot

Maldives container

note

Just a nice note

Team collecting bottles in front of a dumpsite

Collecting thousands of plastic bottles for an installation at Glow

man on beach with plastic waste

Recycling plastic in Hawaii

Crate storage

Crate Storage

Three man hugging

Precious Plastic meets Bope

plastic recycled flowerpot

Extruded flowerpot

blue lamp made from recycled plastic

Lamps made in Korea

plastic waste from the beach

Ocean Plastic

Woman standing on landfill

Precious Plastic pilot #3 in the Maldives

Conference

Ara – DevCon

Containers being unloaded

Basekamp is almost ready!

Veggies

Making a lunch video

man and children talking about plastic

Kenya visit

Dave's setup for the extrusion.

Prototype Extrusion

4 men with recycled bricks

Bricks from ocean plastic

Men in Korea

Upcycling center Korea

Broken camera pieces

Broken camera

parts of a phone

Modular phone in progress