#PreciousPlastic is in trouble!

This non-profit has paved the way for global micro-recycling efforts, trying to build grassroots plastic recycling that can be local and sustainable.

www.preciousplastic.com/news/problem...

Find out more about the 'Precious Plastic' movement on our site - a global open-source initiative empowering communities to recycle their plastic waste locally.
I'm working on a recycling project using their ideas - exciting stuff 😀
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#plastic #preciousPlastic #recycling

Last month I gave a presentation to the University for Seniors at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. It was livestreamed and recorded, so now people all over the world can enjoy more than an hour of plastic recycling thrills: mediaspace.umn.edu/media/t/1_1y...

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This is just a few days worth of HDPE milk bottle lids from the marina cafe - hoping to make a wooden mould and melt them down to make a test product this weekend :D
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#plasticRecycleing #circularDesign #makers

Awesome! Turn plastic waste into new valuable things #preciousplastic http://youtu.be/8J7JZcsoHyA <a href="http://preciousplastic.com" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://preciousplastic.com #recycling

Turn plastic waste into new valuable things #preciousplastic http://youtu.be/8J7JZcsoHyA http://preciousplastic.com

Earth Love 🌎 ❤️
Made from plastic saved from landfill.
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#recycledArt

HN thread on Precious Plastic: Debate over its financial health, the practicality of DIY recycling machines, and overall impact. Is its open-source approach enough to tackle global plastic waste? #PreciousPlastic 1/6

This is neat. And the plans are free. Make your own 3D printer material. #preciousplastic <a href="http://youtu.be/8J7JZcsoHyA" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://youtu.be/8J7JZcsoHyA <a href="http://preciousplastic.com" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://preciousplastic.com

Love the #hulksmash at the beginning of the video clip #preciousplastic https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kenya-environment-recycling-idUSKBN2A211N

I used to have fun making these tiles with the injection press
#OceanPlastic #Recycling #PreciousPlastic #Polyolefins

Diseñen una máquina #reciclado plástico, compartan o hagan la propia. #preciousplastic

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Precious Plastic are a community based, open source plastic recycling movement that's had a huge impact. Plastic waste is insane with so much getting buried or burned. Working out how to get involved with this project myself!
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Got this industrial strength shredder kit to process HDPE plastic (milk bottle tops) so we can make things out of it. Quality product from Sustainable Design Studio
www.sustainabledesign.studio
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#preciousplastic is a global community of people working towards a solution to plastic pollution. Knowledge, tools and techniques are shared online, for free

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#Recycling #Upcycling #PlasticPollution
#PlasticsTreaty

#ClimateAction
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Precious Plastic Updates! Dave and the community are expanding with further reach and greater projects.
#PreciousPlastic #Recycling #Waste #Plastic #Environment

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Hace tiempo que sigo a Dave Hakkens con mucha admiración. Tras proponer #Phoneblocks ha trabajado muchos años en #PreciousPlastic, comunidad open source que recicla muchísimo plástico mundialmente.

Hoy, necesitan de mucha ayuda en difusión o participación.

www.preciousplastic.com/news/problem...

Recently added: "Sustainable Design Studio offer a full suite of plastic injection machines, shredders and product moulds."
I recently got their shredder and it's very well designed!
www.sustainabledesign.studio?utm_source=e...
#preciousPlastic #recycling #plasticWaste

I enjoyed showing Replay Workshop to a group of materials science graduate students from the University of Minnesota-Duluth yesterday. I hope we collaborate with the U on some things in the future!

One thing I was thinking was about how I like the open source nature of the #preciousplastic […]

#PreciousPlastic creates a scalable #OpenSource #FabLab for the #recycling of #plastic trash by acting #locally and thinking #globally, #Riciclo creativo della #plastica da #Torino a #Seul #EconomiaCircolare #SharingKnowledge #PollutionSolution

We generate a huge amount of recycling at the marina; talking to the staff & a local maker to see if we can start creating products from plastic. Precious Plastic offer all the tech/info required and some of it is open source 😀
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Get Funded to Build Your Own Recycling Workspace
www.sustainabledesign.studio/changex-grant
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Recyclez vos déchets (plastique)! #preciousplastic http://youtu.be/8J7JZcsoHyA http://preciousplastic.com

Well where are you now all you #multi-millionaires and #billionaires ? Put some funding in this biggest open-source plastic recycling project to keep it alive!

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