3D with recycled plastic

Every day about 400 water bottles of 1.5l / 0.33l are thrown away at the Loulé Secondary School. Considering the average weight of these plastic bottles, we realized that about 70 kg of plastic waste is generated at our school every day!

With this project we demonstrated that it is possible and feasible to recycle and transform plastic waste, collected at our school's yellow bins, into useful objects using simple equipment (a shredder, an extrusion machine and a 3-D printer).