Rory Dickens is the founder of Sustainable Design Studio, a UK-based company making desktop plastic recycling machines that fit on a garage workbench. With a background in architecture and years spent working in disaster response, Rory saw first-hand the scale of plastic waste washing up on beaches around the world, and it changed the way he thought about materials forever.

He founded Sustainable Design Studio to solve a simple but powerful problem: helping designers and makers work with recycled plastic from the very start of their creative process. The company's range of compact shredders, filament makers, and injection moulding machines lets anyone turn household plastic waste into new products, pairing seamlessly with 3D printers to bring recycled materials straight into the workshop.

Having shipped to over 93 countries, Sustainable Design Studio is proving that meaningful recycling doesn't need a factory. It needs a workbench, some imagination, and the right tools.