Trashpresso, designed by miniwiz, was exhibited at Milan Design Week 2018 as a future solution to plastic pollution. Trashpresso is the world’s first giant portable solar solid waste recycling line that converts solar energy into tiles. It can recycle waste into building tiles with practical value and raw material value. That’s durable, long-lasting and weather-resistant building tiles made of PET plastic. This process requires only three steps to compress the waste: size reduction, purification, and reshaping. These plastic wastes are compressed into tiles to be transported at a lower cost, which is conducive to the expansion of industrial scale and is also conducive to recycling.
These tiles can be used in a variety of applications and are versatile and durable. They can be used for interior and exterior decorative finishes, as well as for flooring and supplementary insulation. Due to the buoyancy and durability of plastic, plastic pollution is distributed worldwide, and because plastic is a non-degradable material, ingestion and entanglement of marine animals caused by plastic pollution, whether from zooplankton or reptile, have a great impact on them. Persistent organic pollutant plastics are affecting large marine animals and low nutritional organisms. Marine organisms move to tissues and organs through absorption and ingestion to cause damage. However, this design method has greatly reduced the pollution caused by plastic to the ocean and marine life and effective use of garbage resources for remodeling and utilization.
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