Idea Plast: decades of design and production experience bring playful new life to recycled plastics

Idea Plast
Type of organisation or company
Country
Italy
Language for original content
Key Area
Project elaborated in partnership
No
Scope
Ongoing
Yes
Description

Idea Plast is an Italian company which has specialised in the design of plastic components since 1987.

It provides clients with a full service for new plastic manufactured goods, including design, prototyping, testing and best options for end-of-life recycling. It makes its expertise, technology and innovation available to companies and public authorities keen to reduce waste or invest in green projects: from recovering industrial waste to convert it into resources for new projects to producing completely recyclable goods.

Idea Plast has a cutting edge R&D centre. It aims to provide increasingly green solutions and devise new, sustainable materials. It assists companies as they adapt processes and products in line with rules and regulations which are more and more focused on environmental impact. Resource efficiency, waste recovery and the development of sustainable materials are now crucial and Idea Plast helps companies adopt this approach.

Its Green Projects department focuses on reusing plastic. They design children's playgrounds from waste plastic (packaging and PVC waste) and wood powder. The plastic is collected,  sorted and turned into granules. The granules are then moulded and cooled before being used in new products.

Main activity field
Main results

The Green project catalogue offers a wide variety of playground equipment.
It also has a catalogue of outdoor benches, tables and other equipment made from recycled materials instead of timber.