Ro Plastic Prize 2020 GUILTLESSPLASTIC

The Tre Miglia thesis project was created with the aim of bridging the current gap between today’s alarmism regarding marine pollution and the resolution of the problem, maintaining a balance between the environmental world. Nuvola di mare is an innovative tool of simple use, adaptable to every type of boat, which stimulates and facilitates sailors interested in the health of the marine world, the recovery of microplastics that for years contaminate the waters of our planet, modifying aquatic flora and fauna.

Tre Miglia is an innovative circular system that adapts to habits today’s two different industrial sectors, the production of products and fishing, creating a relationship business to business. Fishermen collect the plastic waste at sea and bring it back to shore, the latter will be separated according to their type and then delivered to the Italian industries that in turn will reintroduce this waste within their own production, where a percentage of the proceeds will be paid to fishermen, so as to encourage the capture of dirt.

Peel Saver shows a different point of view, a return to simplicity and to what nature has already designed for us. It is now necessary for products and packaging to be sustainable and recyclable.

Potato chip companies make a lot of potato peel waste. The idea of this project is to use this waste material to create a street food packaging. The potato skin consists of starches and fibre components which, after natural maceration and drying, acquire the ability to bind each other and harden. The material obtained is completely
made with production waste and is 100% biodegradable. After being used, the packaging can be usefully reinserted into the biological cycle becoming animal food or fertilizer for plants.

Plastic pollution at sea is one of the most urgent environmental emergencies, due to the dangers it poses to man and the marine environment, and the huge economic and social repercussions for coastal communities. Not only does recycled plastic offer a more sustainable solution, but it is a material that is often free at source and can be produced in a wide range of colors, patterns and textures.

RE-BOE is a project to recover plastic from the sea or coastal areas and then reuse it and design buoys, which by order are mandatory on all marine areas, In this way the plastic waste is eliminated from the sea and then returned in the form of a useful and mandatory product declined in its colors and then used.

The Plastiglomerate project aims to raise awareness of plastic pollution at sea through plastiglomerates: a new type of material created by plastic pollution. Inspired by the book "The sea as an artisan", where the Italian designer Bruno Munari compares the sea to an artist, the plastiglomerate from simple plastic waste, are found, classified and elevated to true works of art of the sea; in a journey along the coasts cilentane (Campania) and Civitanovesi (Marche). In these two places two exhibitions open to the public want to make known the plastiglomerate, to appreciate the work of the sea in transforming waste into works of art and finally to reflect on the impact that man has on the environment.