AÑO
2021
CATEGORÍA
Hogar
OBJETIVOS
Ciudades y comunidades sostenibles, Producción y consumo responsables, Vida de ecosistemas terrestres
PAL. CLAVE
recycling plastic, material recovery , plastic bag, Less Plastic, packaging
PAÍS
United States of America
CRÉDITOS
David New
LINK
https://www.obaggo.com/
obaggo
Densifying machine for plastic film for convenient recycling
Historically, plastic bags might be re-used within the home but many are simply discarded in the trash rather than recycled. Worse, far too many end up in the environment, leading to calls for plastic bag bans.
There are multiple reasons for not recycling plastic bags including:
Consumers aren't aware that plastic bags are recyclable
Plastics recyclers may not know that pragmatic technology exists to deal with all of the types of plastic bags produced
Obaggo is looking to change this, at least from a consumer perspective. With the Obaggo Recycling Appliance, they've built a simple home-based machine that neatly compresses plastic bags into 'pucks'. These dense pucks make gathering and transporting plastic bags for recycling easy. Perhaps more importantly, by bringing this product to market, they're raising the awareness of consumers that plastic bags are even recyclable!
The second challenge, that plastics recyclers are potentially unaware that plastic bag recycling machines exist.