06 Jun World’s First Wrench 3D-Printed with Recycled Ocean Plastic Wins Innovation Award
Colin Payne, an independent professional writer, researcher and photographer based in British Columbia, Canada writes about the first 3D-product made with recycled ocean plastic and what it may mean to cleaning up the ocean and helping the world’s poor.
Proving that ocean garbage is anything but trash, a Canadian company has built the world’s first-ever 3D-printed item made entirely from recycled ocean plastic. The Recycling Council of British Columbia recently gave Vancouver-based The Plastic Bank its Innovation Award for creating a 3D-printed wrench from plastic filaments made from waste collected from the southern Alaskan coastline. Using a model called Social Plastic’ that rewards people for keeping natural areas clean, Plastic Bank is dedicated to making waste plastic a currency that people in poverty around the world can use to make their lives better with little more than an entrepreneurial spirit.
“The completed ‘3D Printing from Ocean Plastic’ pilot project is a huge step forward for our mission to provide the world’s poor with the ability to exchange plastic waste for access to 3D printing and life improvement opportunities,” says Shaun Frankson, co-founder of The Plastic Bank.
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