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Donors help Precious Plastic recycle as much plastic as possible ♡
Donors help Precious Plastic recycle as much plastic as possible ♡
Precious Plastic ecosystem is powered by thousands of recycling entrepreneurs building their life on making plastic (waste) precious!
Precious Plastic's innovative small-scale recycling approach has helped:
- recycle 1400 TONS of plastic waste
- generate $3.7M in revenue
- employ 530 people
- volunteer 3405 people
- build 1175 recycling machines
See the full report here
We run projects with organisations around the world. We do events, presentations, pilots and R&D. We basically know a lot about plastic and love to collaborate to push recycling forward! Some previous projects: Container in maldives, workspace in Kenya, table for Jaden Smith.
Precious Plastic enables tens of thousands of people to dedicate their lives to recycle plastic and alleviate the plastic waste problem. Learn about some of the success stories on our Youtube channel.
Precious Plastic counts on donations from people like yourself to empower tens of thousands of recyclers around the world. Donate now to grow our impact ♡
If you also think Precious Plastic is a necessary tool for the planet and humanity, please consider supporting our work. Choose how to support below :)
We will always keep Precious Plastic fully open-source and free for everyone to benefit from. However, we haven’t really figured out a proper way to fund this yet. Your donation will go 100% into the project helping us to cover research & development cost. Thanks for your support! Hooray plastic recycling!
Precious Plastic is part of One Army, 600+ people support our work on a monthly bases! We use a platform called Patreon. This really helps us a lot as we can plan our finances in the long term. Your money will fund research, development, bills, rent, core team salaries, food, hosting etc.
We run projects with organisations around the world. We do events, presentations, pilots and R&D. We basically know a lot about plastic and love to collaborate to push recycling forward! Some previous projects: Container in maldives, workspace in Kenya, table for Jaden Smith.
Precious Plastic needs constant development - new machines, techniques, platforms etc.. However, as we give out everything for free at Precious Plastic it is kind of challenging to find the budgets to develop this much needed upgrades.
This is where we could really use the support of you, your company or organisation. Below a list of the current most important updates. Shoot us a message if you want to help or need more details!
3D printing is a big opportunity for recycled plastic. However, making traditional filament is difficult with different degrees of contamination. Help us make a large format 3D printer that prints directly from shredded plastic waste!
Being able to determine the type of plastic is super important for recycling. Industry standard ones cost upwards of 20K euro. We’ve worked on developing a low-cost plastic scanner, and are near a working prototype. Help us reach it!
We developed a mould for making bricks from recycled plastic. It’s a proof of concept, but it needs some work! We need to make it more ergonomic for the operator and develop a system for knowing when the mould is filled.
Our current injection machine is great for workshops and events. We also see a big opportunity to make an injection machine specifically for production purposes. Still small scale but optimized for producing larger quantities of recycled products.
We will improve and redesign our brick mould. And build an entire house to prototype and see how it works so others can replicate.
We would love to capture all the wonderful workspaces around Europe. Have a small crew visiting them, doing interviews and sharing their lessons. Each workspace will have it’s own video on Youtube.
The Precious Plastic community meets and collaborate on the Community Platform, our custom built software. Making the Community Platform (map, profiles, how-to’s and research module) as useful as possible would be a massive boost for Precious Plastic.
The Precious Plastic Bazar (our own marketplace) enables local economies around recycling plastic. In 2020 it processed over € 300.000, these are money going straight to recyclers. But the software needs constant upgrades, and these come pricey. We would love to have the resources to take this to the next level.
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