December 13, 2017: Soneva, a world-renowned luxury resort, announces the 'Recycling Project' for Plastic Recycling. Soneva Fushi joins 'Precious Plastic' The global plastic recycling program marks the beginning of this project to begin with the locally available low processing Cost materials and make it an open-source remanufacturer. In addition, Soneva will also roll out this project to recover waste plastic from nearby islands.
The first open-source remanufacturer, which has been successfully developed by Soneva Fushi's Eco Center, can transform plastics into fun functional arts accessories. "Reengineering" is part of Soneva's encouragement to residents and employees to actively participate in recycling programs, The aim is to make younger guests aware of the process by which the items were made and to teach them about the concept of environmental protection that turns waste into treasure.
Soneva became the first company to introduce 'Plastic In-Place Re-engineering' to the Maldives after joining Precious Plastic, a global initiative that brings together global environmental innovations. "Although Soneva has banned plastic bottled water since 2009 and substantially limits the use of plastic, There are still a few plastic products on the island that appear in the packaging needed for food transport and in the guests' own belongings.
'We are committed to changing people's perceptions of waste, and plastics are a wasteful and valuable resource that can be recycled and reborn as a brand new product,' said Sonu Shivdasani, founder and CEO of Soneva. 'We are proud to be a global player A part of the "Re-engineering Movement" and able to participate in the recycling of plastics Soneva has been recycling the concept of environmental protection for a long time, but this time we want to take it to a whole new level. With these plastics recycling machines, we encourage guests and employees on the island to take an active part in our activities to transform the waste into new and valuable items. '
Soneva has now achieved 90% recycling of solid waste, including glass, food waste, jungle and polystyrene plastics, which are now being processed locally. The goal now is to reduce the remaining 10% of the plastic, paper, Music package, reaching 100% waste.
The plastic waste in the ocean is constantly washing away the pure beaches that pollute the Maldives where plastic waste has been a subject that can not be ignored.At the UN Environment Assembly held in Kenya last week, a spokesman for the delegation stressed once again that this global Sexual disasters and proposed a UN initiative to ban plastics from entering the ocean Soneva believes the program not only partially explains the value of recycling plastic waste to the local economy but also encourages local groups to collect plastic before it reaches the oceans Up for reuse.
In fact, for the Soneva Art Glass project, Soneva has been pushing the concept of 'turning waste into wealth' outside the resort and upgrading glass bottles collected from nearby islands. Each month Ecology Center prepares for recycling, Cleanse the collected 500 to 1,000 kilograms of glass before sending it to Soneva's glass art studios where they are sent to the state-of-the-art glass furnace followed by a series of exquisite craftsmanship including blowing, casting And Rewan will re-shape these ordinary glass bottles, upgraded to make more extraordinary value of art.
The first phase of the 'Soneva Recycling Project' is inviting residents and employees in the resort to create, produce flower pots, bowls or children's toys, etc. to bring new life to plastic waste.