Modular Litter Trap

Our brand new developed Passive Litter Trap is premiered at the Dutch Design Week! This renewed design will increase our national and international impact to prevent plastic litter to enter seas and oceans. The Litter Trap will be installed in rivers and ports to directly stop plastic litter in their flow.

Recycled Island Foundation retrieves plastic litter in rivers and ports since 2014. The recovered plastic is recycled into valuable new products such as Litter Traps.

The Litter Trap redevelopment is supported by the Audi Environmental Foundation. Acting towards a plastic free sea together!

From plastic litter to durable housing.

In most of the areas where plastic pollution is highly concentrated also the housing situation is poor. People live in slums and have a high demand for durable shelter. The bricks can be used as building blocks to make many modular and circular designs. Each brick is made of 1.5 kilos of 100% recycled plastic with dimensions of 200x100x135mm (LxBxH).Recycling plastic litter into housing turns the environmental problem into a benefit for the local population. It shows the potential and value of circular re-use.

This project is a collaboration of:

Recycled Island Foundation with UniBrick: https://www.consciousdesigns.nl/unibrick

Music by Tree60 and Lascko https://open.spotify.com/artist/4NEA8zkFgdVHYWZXANEHA7

Pet Kupa river cleanup at the Tisza. DAY#3

The team of Recycled Island Foundation joined this year’s river cleanup with Pet Kupa along the Tisza river in Hungary.

The Tisza is one of Danube’s most beautiful yet polluted tributaries. It begins in Ukraine, flows almost entirely through Hungary and then enters the Danube in Serbia.

The boat race, a lifetime adventure organized by the Hungarian NGO Plastic Cup, contributes to clean the river and its shores, to increase awareness and to build a solid network of experts. This is done by allowing volunteers to sail with boats made with recycled plastic for more than 80 kilometers and to collect plastic litter along the Tisza.

This year, we shared the paddles with the ICPDR (International Commission for the Protection of te Danube River) and were awarded the second prize. Throughout the boat race, more than 10 tons of plastic litter have been collected and a significant impact towards plastic-free rivers has been made. We cannot wait to take part in the next boat race and we are inviting you to join us!

See here the vlog of day 3.