When the call for participants closed on 22 February for the second edition of  Ro Plastic Prize, set up by Rossana Orlandi for her international project RoGUILTLESSPLASTIC, the number of applications had doubled from the previous year.  

More than 600 candidates from 65 different countries and five different continents have submitted ideas in the five categories under consideration. 

With an average of 1200 participants, within which men and women are equally represented, the largest number comes from Italy, followed by the United States, who surpassed the Netherlands for the second year. The average age of applicants is 33, with submissions range from a 14 year old from India to a nearly 80 year old from Spain.