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ReAcademy: Academy of MR-PET recovery

ReAcademy is an association that brings together a group of professionals from different backgrounds - researchers, architects, engineers, eco-designers who are inspired by the principles of ecologically sustainable.

Their mission is to promote the recovery of waste through innovative ideas and projects and sustainable economic and environmental realities and to create a network of people interested in the daily practice of sustainability.

waste recovery and planning how to give new life and value to waste materials, want to expand in environmentally sustainable way the choice of citizens, entrepreneurs and institutions.

Among the projects developed so far include: - the production of baskets and trolleys recycled PET (Keorex), adopted by supermarket chains, the PET is collected through a special machine located outside the supermarket by the citizens that bring their own bottles to the machine and are rewarded through a system of incentives and discounts, the raw material (recovered) obtained from the bottles, called Keorex, it is very powerful and extremely flexible for use: an example is the production of trucks and bins for supermarkets.

Production, craft in this case, a line of home accessories in wood barrels recovered from the no longer used: chairs, tables, stools, chairs.

The production of a range of objects made from cardboard packaging: chairs, bags .- in collaboration with the Politecnico di Torino, the realization of projects of architecture based on the use of more environmentally friendly materials and solutions (but prices competitive with traditional construction models).

Initiatives like these are becoming more desirable, only with talent, tenacity and practicality can be expected to help the environment survive the "misdeeds" of man.

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