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

Shredder machine

Shredder in Rimini

Man working on a recycling extruder machine

Brick making training

Colourful waterfilters

Waterfilters by Taller Esfèrica in Spain

Man wearing a gasmask

Business guy In the workspace

Yellow Van parked in tuscany

Driving to Project Kamp!

Dutch Queen shaking hands with Dave

Solid handshake

men in front of recycling machine

Sheetpress in London

Shredded car bumpers

Car bumpers

Phoneblocks community map

Phoneblocks Community

plastic recycled flowerpot

Extruded flowerpot

2 man in front of recycled sheet

First sheets from Nigeria

Recycled plastic hydroponic vase

Extruded hydroponic vase

Youtube channel

1 Million!

man on beach with plastic waste

Recycling plastic in Hawaii

man wiring cables for recycling machine

Late wiring

The original Phonebloks model

Phoneblocks in museum

Phonebloks models

Found these old models when cleaning up

Boijmans museum

Storyhopper in Boijmans

Badged.

Badges are here!

Scrapyard

Hardware store