my name is jonas martens,i’m 30 years old. i studied at the technical university delftto be an engineer/industrial designer and from there we, as a collective of engineers,started our own business, the better future factory. we really want to makea difference in the world not just by talking aboutwhat is wrong with the world
how to make models for 3d printing, but by showing how things can be donedifferently by working with existing systems. the result is perpetual plastic. plastic is a huge problem worldwide. only 10 to 12 % of all plastics are being recycled.
the rest ends up in the environmentall over the world even in our foods,it literally ends up everywhere. we don’t believe in fighting an uphill battle,so we don’t directly want to clean up the seas we want to end continuously putting plasticinto the environment. after that the seas can be cleanedand will hopefully stay clean. there is an industrial revolution 3.0 happeningas we speak with the invention of 3d printers. by using this new development we wantto start industrial revolution 3,5. we clean up the plastic cup in water and dry it in a tumble dryer.
then we crush it into small pieces. this machine contains a drill, which pushesthe plastic in the right direction. this area is heated to 186Ⱐcelsius and melts the plastic toa density similar to chewing gum. then it’s pushed through the nozzleinto a tube with a diameter of 3 mm. through this process and by using a 3d printer we’ve transformed this cup into a plastic ring. it’s a small circular economy on a local scale. these are made of recycled car dashboards.
we also use pet bottles. we use specific recycle streamswhich are safe and consistent. so the materials we use are chosen consciously. we believe in the local production of useful products to empower people locally.
when you make new plastics you neednew raw materials like oil and history has taught us what the effects are. we want everyone to start usingrecycled plastic wherever they can because the quality isexactly the same as new plastic.
