Researcher spins prosthetic socket from plastic waste

Aug 20, 2019 - 16:30
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Researcher spins prosthetic socket from plastic waste

The prosthetic sockets on the right were made from polyester yarn sourced from ground up waste ...

We have a huge plastic waste problem at the moment, but there are efforts to make use of this throw-away resource – including using trash collected from canals to make office furniture, creating portable speakers out of plastic that can't be recycled and forming temporary shelters for use at music festivals. The latest addition to the list uses waste plastic water bottles to make sockets for prosthetic limbs.

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