In Brazil favela, skateboards made of bottle caps promote recycling

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In Brazil favela, skateboards made of canteen caps promote recycling

Each colourful skateboard is made of around 500 plastic bottle caps that are crushed, melted, placed into a mould and so baked in an industrial pizza oven.

Arian Rayegani, a 28-year-erstwhile Canadian, the founder of "Na Laje Designs" project, makes a skateboard using recycled plastic waste material that helps garbage collectors earn nutrient donated in the Rocinha slum, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Oct 22, 2021. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares

In Brazil'southward largest favela of Rocinha, on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, a local project aims to promote recycling by altruistic nutrient in substitution for bottle caps that are used to build skateboards.

Each colourful skateboard is fabricated of around 500 plastic canteen caps that are crushed, melted, placed into a mould and then broiled in an industrial pizza oven. Each one takes about ii hours to consummate.

"It'south made 100 per cent from recycling plastic that is collected, recycled and fabricated hither in Rocinha," said Arian Rayegani, a Canadian mechanical engineer who heads the Na Laje Designs project.

The project gives nutrient donations in exchange for the bottle caps.

Arian Rayegani, a 28-year-old Canadian, the founder of "Na Laje Designs" projection, selects plastic bottle caps to make skateboards from recycled plastic waste collected by garbage collectors in the Rochinha slum in commutation for nutrient, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil October 22, 2021. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares

Arian Rayegani, a 28-twelvemonth-onetime Canadian, the founder of "Na Laje Designs" project, makes a skateboard using recycled plastic waste that helps garbage collectors earn food donated in the Rocinha slum, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil October 22, 2021. Picture taken October 22, 2021. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares

"We are not a skateboard factory, it'due south bigger than this. Nosotros want to create a hub and a centre of innovation for recycling here in Rocinha," Rayegani said.

"Rocinha produces 230 tonnes of garbage per twenty-four hour period and there is no recycling and waste direction locally here that actually deals with this implementation and that is what we want to do," Rayegani added.

"Today nosotros work on plastic but tomorrow nosotros desire to be able to recycle newspaper, metal, glass and beyond that. We desire to bring the next generation, bring the kids here, to learn near it, to forestall the issue."

Wallace Mezquita works in the product of a skateboard for "Na Laje Designs" projection, using recycled plastic waste product that helps garbage collectors earn donated food in the Rocinha slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Oct 22, 2021. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares

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