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Plastic is everywhere. Useful and convenient, it’s also a massive pollution problem. It’s impacting our health, and it’s threatening our oceans and wildlife. Less than 10 percent of the used plastic is recycled, and there are, currently, hundreds of millions of tons of plastic in oceans and in the landfill.
Also, according to statistics, Bucharest, the city we currently live in, is one of the most polluted cities of Europe.
But what if plastic could be recycled easier, as simple as going to the market?
NEXT Box is a device that aims to solve this major problem by reshaping any kind of recyclable plastic into useful objects. On the spot, in less than 10 minutes.
Who can use it?
NEXT Box can be used by anyone that can bring plastic waste and wants to recycle it in order to create functional objects.
It can be used by absolutely anyone, beginning with children and ending with seniors.
It is very simple to use: After inserting the plastic waste into the machine and selecting the recyclable material’s name and desired object, the whole process is automated.
WHAT can be brought?
Absolutely any part that is made of recyclable plastic. Whether it’s PET, HDPE, LDPE, PP or PS, NEXT Box will shred and process each of them.
The key is introduce only one plastic type at a time, not to mix them all inside the machine.
WHEN can it be used?
NEXT Box can be used at any time of the day and night.
It is available 24/7 and requires only a functional electrical connection. Online parameter monitoring and video surveillance are also available, ensuring round the clock operation. If needed, for limited off-grid daily usage, PV panels and battery packs are available as an option.
WHERE can it be placed?
To reach it’s desired efficiency, it is recomended to place it in accessible areas, but the thief-proof design makes it possible to be placed everywhere. The goal is to have the machine fitted anywhere there's plastic to be recycled.
plastic recycling
process automation
useful plastic products
community awareness
quality of life
Plastic pollution is a complex issue, involving multiple sources and actors, and addressing it requires a wide array of forces to intervene at various levels. Before this can happen, though, city inhabitants face an initial knowledge gap: they need to establish the magnitude of the problem they face, and gain an understanding of the processes involved, in order to find efficient solutions to the threat.
NEXT Box aims to be an efficient solution to the threat by diverting plastic waste from the landfills while creating new added value products, following the principle of almost instantaneous recycling, allowing future generations to meet their own needs.
Aesthetic pleasures are typically pursued and enjoyed for their own sake. The focus is on the pleasure that arises from the act of doing something rather than achieving some ultimate personal goal. Beautiful things are appreciated not only for their utility, but also for what they are in themselves. This desire to recycle is often based on the belief that recycled materials compensate for the environmental impact of our consumption.
NEXT Box aims to provide an uplifting experience by creating unique combinations of coloured flakes, while also reaching at the higher goal of recycling/reshapings products.
Universal design is important to fulfil the users’ needs in a resource-limited society. Many design researchers and engineers in developing countries have produced practical solutions for sustaining and enhancing the livelihood of the marginal communities. Our main purpose is to encourage, and support product development process and design thinking, specifically keeping in mind social justice for people, ecology for planet and economics of development for profit. In this regard, we also kept NEXT Box's production costs at a minimum, in order to have the opportunity to replicate the product even in the most resource-limited societies.
NEXT Box follows the principle of rewarding people for proper use and will help drive up the rate of plastic recycling, reducing the amount of plastic that goes into oceans and landfill, and creating business opportunities out of the challenge to cut back on waste. It’s part of innovations aiming to keep plastic circulating in the economy for as long as it mantains it's properties. The 2030 targets essentially require that plastic is kept in circulation, with waste products being turned into new products.
NEXT Box was a sparkling idea in the dark. It is a concept created specifically by our team members, based on our expertise of more than ten years in architecture/product design and plastic processing. There were no other stakeholders engaged in the design and development of the project.
NEXT Box concept combined different fields of expertise, ranging from architecture to plastic injection and 3d printing. Our architectural expertise helped us in creating plans, sections, elevations and rendered images to better communicate the NEXT Box concept. This gives an added depth for the reader to better understand the project. Plastic injection expertise helped in shaping, organizing and integrated the main components of NEXT Box, while ensuring a steady operational flow.
At the moment, as far as we know, in this field of action, there are no similar products available. NEXT Box is the first concept of plastic reshaping device that is available 24/7 and rewards the users on the spot, in less than 10 minutes.
Nearly every problem has been solved by someone, somewhere. The challenge of the 21st century is to find out what works and scale it up. In this regard, NEXT Box cand be replicated virtually anywhere, and it was intended to be so. The design was kept simple and the environmental requirements are very lax. With the optional photovoltaic and battery storage system, it doesn't even need to be connected to a power line.
Plastic pollution is an immense challenge given the centrality of plastic today, the general failure of recycling to solve the problem, the rise in waste related to COVID-19, and shifts in the waste trade. Solutions must involve local actions, citizen and corporate commitment, and common rules that fulfill the need for local and global environmental justice. NEXT Box aims to be, eventually, installed in every city, in order to diminish plastic pollution from the start point.
