The unique environment created during the Recycling Olympic Games provides for a unique and dynamic environment to push participants towards using recycled materials in search of sustainable design practices. By bringing international participants together, ROG creates a situation for stimulating peer learning with individuals of many different backgrounds, educations and cultures in order to create a more diverse knowledge base for creative problem solving. Through a competition focused on the application of creative problem solving and design, ROG also highlights the amount of waste which is amassed, surrounds us and threatens to overwhelm us unless we can promote systems of repurposing that waste into something functional.  ​

The Recycling Olympics was conceived in 2012,
and organized in 2013 ​by Jan Pankovets and Justin Tyler Tate. 

​ROG events in 2015 and 2016 have been organized by Mikko Laajola and Justin Tyler Tate

The Recycling Olympics has been graciously
​supported by Pixelache Helsinki.