{"id":318911,"date":"2024-07-31T22:28:43","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T20:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/?post_type=news&p=318911"},"modified":"2024-07-31T22:28:43","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T20:28:43","slug":"tiny-trash-tower-pragues-recycled-eiffel-replica-wows-olympic-fans","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/news\/tiny-trash-tower-pragues-recycled-eiffel-replica-wows-olympic-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiny Trash Tower: Prague’s Recycled Eiffel Replica Wows Olympic Fans"},"content":{"rendered":"

A small copy of the Eiffel Tower, made from old plastic bottles found in the ocean, has been built near Lake Most in the Czech Republic.  The tower was finished just in time for the Olympic Festival, which starts on July 26, 2024. The organisers want to show how recycled materials can be used in cool ways and to get people excited about the Olympics.<\/p>\n

From Ocean Waste to Olympic Wonder<\/h3>\n

The mini Eiffel Tower stands as high as a four-story building. It was made using 800,000 recycled plastic bottles, which equals 1.3 tons of trash that was cleaned out of the ocean. A Czech company called 3DDen created this amazing structure.<\/p>\n

Jan Hrebabecky, the boss of 3DDen, said, “We used special technology to turn ocean plastic into material for 3D printing. We call it OPET. It looks and feels just like normal plastic, but it’s trickier to work with.”<\/p>\n

Building Challenges<\/h3>\n

The tower is made up of more than 1,500 separate pieces. The 3DDen team spent months figuring out how to work with the recycled plastic. Jan Prindis, who works at 3DDen, explained, “It took us about six months to learn how to use this material. It’s softer than regular plastic but harder to shape.”<\/p>\n

The team had to be creative to make sure all the pieces fit together perfectly. They even used different cooling methods to create various shades of gray in the tower.<\/p>\n

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