DK Upcycle

DK Upcycle

At a glance

Causes

  • Education
  • Environment
  • Refugees / migrants
  • Young people

Other details

Geographical remit: 
International

Objectives

The goal is to create an environmentally and economically sustainable project, that plays a positive part in its local environment. It is at a small scale in terms of supporting local trash collection, raising awareness, making items that have meaning and supporting the development of a holistic view of forced migration, climate change, and welcoming.

Our objectives are:

Providing a welcoming workspace that it is easily accessible to a lot of people where young people and adults can:

  • Walk-in with ease

  • Learn more about the impact of waste on their local environment

  • Be involved in improving their local environment

  • Learn how to use the machines that transform single use plastic into goods that can be sold creating income, or into items for humanitarian aid

  • Work with artists, engineers and others involved in the project to learn new skills

  • Engage safely in conversations about the migrant camps in a creative, non threatening environment.

  • Provide workshops to schools, community groups

Providing support for charities that collect waste locally and that make a link between waste, plastic, and linked social issues (esp. forced migration)

  • The support can be logistical and financial

  • Access to the workshop if needed

  • Sharing resources and helping each other out on raising awareness and being close to local population / networking

Activities

Our current activities include:

  • Working with local organisations to run litter picks and waste collection actions in informal refugee camps
  • Working with local organisations to support citizen-led litter picking actions in the city and along the coast line
  • Processing of recyclable plastic waste that is taken from these sites to be used in the plastic recycling workshop
  • Creating a welcoming workshop space with access to Precious Plastic machines and equipment for recycling
  • Design and development of humanitarian aid items produced from collected plastic waste
  • Participating in local events and activities to communicate about the link between migration and the environment

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