The project ‘Recycling as a change maker: upcycling of plastic in a refugee camp’ was carried out by Marlene Schmidt Pedersen, Daniel Lilja Frykman and Nanna Nielsen from DTU Mechanics. Three students have just received a Project Plastic award for their sustainable and economically interesting concept for recycling plastics in refugee camps. The refugee camp was originally intended as a temporary place to live, but the approximately 120,000 refugees live in the camp for around 15 years on average. “We chose to look at collection and recycling of plastics in the refugee camp along with the Danish architectural firm Lendager Group, which specializes in circular solutions. The hope is that the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, will take over and implement the concept in refugee camps around the world.
