Plastic waste is a serious drawback, however what when you may flip the world’s trash into treasure? [Yayasan Kaki Kita Sukasada (YKKS)] in Indonesia is doing this by utilizing recycled plastic to make prosthetic legs.

Polypropylene supply materials is shredded and shaped right into a sheet which is molded into the required form for the socket. A layer of material and foam is used to cushion the interface between the affected person and the socket itself. Utilizing waste plastic to make elements for the prosthetics lowers the value for sufferers in addition to helps to maintain this materials out of the landfill.

What makes this challenge actually thrilling is that [YKKS] employs disabled individuals who develop the prosthetics and in addition trains sufferers on learn how to keep and restore their prosthetics with simply sourced instruments and supplies. With some medical gadget corporations abandoning their units, that is actually a welcome distinction.

We’ve beforehand coated the Valuable Plastic machines used to make the plastic sheets and the group’s developments at small scale injection molding.