Environment organization Żibel has become a preferred choice for the receipt of support from The Alfred Mizzi Foundation. Żibel, which through its regular cleaning campaigns focused on the surroundings of Malta’s seas, collects hundreds of tons of waste plastic from the seabed each year. The problem of storing and disposing of this waste material, can now be tackled through a newly purchased shredder machine that reduces the plastic to flakes, which will in turn, be processed into useful home products. This state-of-the-art grinding and shredding machine is the first of its kind in Malta.

The Alfred Mizzi Foundation and has been supporting Żibel’s mission since 2019, with each project adding more residual value in the marine debris sector in Malta. The collaboration today embarks on a new chapter; the recycling of marine plastics here in Malta, carried out in-house at Żibel’s studio. The funded shredder allows the organisation to breakdown the various plastics collected not only from clean-ups but from the hundreds of stakeholders that form part of it’s Żibel Tribe. The shredder is the first in a series of machines that break down, wash, dry and remold the plastic into new pieces, destined for homes and businesses.