Waste management is an urgent problem throughout the world, but a particularly difficult situation in isolated cities that do not have access to disposal facilities.

Taiwan’s architectural studio Miniwiz has developed an environmentally friendly solution: TRASHPRESSO, a mobile solar processing station that produces paving slabs from garbage.

Wherever necessary, TRASHPRESSO uses local waste and recycles it into tiles for landscape design.

 

The mobile station-waste processing plant is housed in a 40-foot container on a platform that can be transported by a trailer truck, and Miniwiz says that the station is prepared for work easily, just as the satellite is being unpacked in orbit.

It can process plastic and fabric waste, in addition, it itself works on solar energy.

The garbage is “washed, crushed, melted and formed into architectural tiles”, and water is used repeatedly for cleaning garbage.

As it is already clear, the station’s system does not need to be connected to the power grid, and can produce 10 square meters of paving slabs every 40 minutes.

Each tile contains the equivalent of five plastic PET bottles. Tiles can be used for exterior or interior finishing of the floor or sold as raw material for subsequent production processes, such as billet, injection and extrusion. ”

The CEO of Miniwiz and co-founder Arthur Huang said in a statement: “Until now, the processing of the industrial class has been limited to the location of the factories. TRASHPRESSO overcomes remote and energy barriers, showing that recycling is possible everywhere. ”

TRASHPRESSO was first installed in NianBao Yuze, which is on the Tibetan plateau.

The natural beauty of the glacier region was destroyed by tourists, who left garbage mountains behind them. From there, TRASHPRESSO will travel to other remote areas, where garbage is collected, the station will have beaches, lakes, ponds or rivers.

The station will also take part in the shooting of Jackie Chan’s documentary “Green Heroes” for National Geographic.