Precious Plastics

Plastic waste has become a threat to entire ecosystems and societies. It is deteriorating our planet and people’s lives. It is a problem. A material made to last hundreds of years that is only used for minutes.

Precious Plastic is a series of machines, documentation, video tutorials, campaigns, and a platform designed to empower people across the planet to start working with plastic waste locally while trying to localize plastic recycling technologies, infrastructures and knowledge by providing open-source designs for machines, molds and consumer products. All knowledge, know-how, processes, methodologies and tools are available online, for free at all times. The Precious Plastic machines are built to enable anyone to work with plastic waste, and designed to be as inclusive and accessible as possible. They are made from basic materials, are very affordable, and easy to build – anywhere in the world. The machines are also built modular so they can be adapted to different contexts and needs.

Plastic can become a source of income, or an educational tool for your community, and Precious Plastic wants to show the world the incredible opportunities of plastic waste in order to eliminate plastic pollution, reducing the demand on new virgin plastic and closing its materials loop – while creating better livelihoods for people around the world. Precious Plastic is, above all, a cultural tool to change the way society perceive plastic.