Organization:Precious Plastic

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Short description: Open hardware plastic recycling project
Precious Plastic
Precious Plastic Logo
Formation2013; 11 years ago (2013)
FounderDave Hakkens
Location
  • Eindhoven
Region
Worldwide
Websitepreciousplastic.com

Precious Plastic is an open hardware plastic recycling project and is a type of open source digital commons project. The project was started in 2013 by Dave Hakkens and is now in its fourth iteration. It relies on a series of machines and tools which grind, melt, and inject recycled plastic, allowing for the creation of new products out of recycled plastic on a small scale.

History

In 2012, Dave Hakkens started working on Precious Plastic as a part of his studies at the Design Academy in Eindhoven.[1] The project was released in 2013 as Version 1.0.[1]

The work on version 2 was started in 2015[1] and was released in March 2016.[1][2] In 2016, Precious Plastic also created a marketplace called Bazar for selling machines and products targeted to DIY designers to recycle plastic.[3]

The team started working on version 3.0 from early 2017 and was launched in October 2017.[1]

In May 2018, Precious Plastic received the Famae award of €300,000 to further develop the project.[4] The city of Eindhoven also provided them a big workspace free of charge.[4] In October 2018, Precious Plastic project officially opened its doors at the VDMA building in Eindhoven.[5] The work on Version 4.0 was started in September 2018.[6][1]

In 2019 Hakkens and Precious Plastic were involved in disagreement over whether to burn or recycle plastics collected from the oceans.[7]

The version 4, which includes business models and starter kits for creating recycling systems, was announced in January 2020.[6][1]

In December 2020, One Army was launched as an umbrella organization for a growing collection of projects including Precious Plastic, Project Kamp, PhoneBloks, Fixing Fashion, and Story Hopper.[8][9]

Fixing Fashion was launched in March 2021.[10][11]

Description

A recycled plastic carabiner made with Precious Plastic machinery
A recycled plastic carabiner made with Precious Plastic machinery by Parley for the Oceans

Precious Plastic is an open hardware plastic recycling project and is a type of open source digital commons project.[12] It relies on a series of machines and tools which grind, melt, and inject recycled plastic, allowing for the creation of new products out of recycled plastic on a small scale.[13] The project allows individual consumers to set up "their own miniature recycling company".[14]

The project is composed of more than 40,000 people[15] in over 400 work spaces, either remotely or on site in the Netherlands.[16][17][3] All the information produced by the project such as codes, drawings, and source materials are available for free online under the Creative Commons Attribution - Share Alike International 4.0 license.[12]

Related projects

Precious Plastic Fiji was formed in 2017 as a NGO dedicated to eliminating plastic waste.[18]

In 2018 after a workshop in China, a company, Plastplan, grew out of the Precious Plastic project in Iceland to promote an alternative to shipping plastic to Sweden to be burned for electricity.[19][20]

In Hawaii in 2019, Puna Precious Plastic, with more than 1,000 members as a part of the Precious Plastic worldwide movement, collected about 1,000 pounds, which it planned to sort, shred and melt into plastic bricks and lumber for construction.[21][22][23]

In Thailand, Precious Plastic Bangkok collects plastic bottle caps to shred, melt, and reshape into new products, including monk's robes.[24][25]

With a grant from Dane County Arts and partnered with Community GroundWorks, the nonprofit that oversees Troy Kids’ Garden, and hackerspace Sector 67, a branch of Precious Plastic was launched in Madison, Wisconsin.[26]

In September 2021, One Army announced a "Verified" Precious Plastic workspaces program to give recognition to "high quality recycling work". Many locations around the world were listed.[27]

University involvement

In 2018, a group called Precious Plastic Texas was formed by students at the University of Texas after learning about what was being done in Thailand.[28] In 2019 students in the Environmental Fellows Program's gateway seminar at DePauw University in Indiana began work on a Precious Plastic project, and received funding from the Joseph and Carol Danks Centers Council Fund for Multidisciplinary Projects. The project will continue in a gateway seminar and three art classes, and they may add an off-campus trip to a Precious Plastic site.[29] In Australia, UNSW business school students, working closely with Precious Plastic, won the 2019 Big Idea competition in the postgraduate category with their start-up idea called Closed Loop – a local-level plastic waste recycling business.[30] Engineering students at the Monash University chapter created a Precious Plastic one-metre cube portable recycling machine to transport to events for display.[31]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 "Precious Plastic History". https://preciousplastic.com/about/history.html. 
  2. ↑ "Dave Hakkens updates Precious Plastics recycling machines" (in en). 2016-04-14. https://www.dezeen.com/2016/04/14/dave-hakkens-updates-open-source-precious-plastic-recycling-machines/. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Peters, Adele (2017-10-30). "These DIY Machines Let Anyone Recycle Plastic Into New Products" (in en-US). https://www.fastcompany.com/40486883/these-diy-machines-let-anyone-recycle-plastic-into-new-products. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Precious Plastic Version 4 Team". https://preciousplastic.com/people/version/four.html. 
  5. ↑ Diana (2018-10-09). "Precious Plastic: from Eindhoven to the World" (in en-GB). https://eindhovennews.com/features/2018/10/precious-plastic/. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 (in en) Precious Plastic 4 - Fully explained, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thhHoPJ6Y14, retrieved 2020-01-10 
  7. ↑ "Plastic collected by The Ocean Cleanup will be burned to generate electricity" (in en). 2019-08-19. https://www.dezeen.com/2019/08/19/ocean-cleanup-plastic-burning-electricity-news/. 
  8. ↑ "Say hi to One Army" (in en). https://onearmy.earth//news/say-hi-to-one-army. 
  9. ↑ "One Army for the Planet" (in en). https://onearmy.earth//. 
  10. ↑ "The problem with fashion in 2021" (in en). https://onearmy.earth//news/the-problem-with-fashion-in-2021. 
  11. ↑ "Fashion fixes are revolutionizing popular trends - Times of India" (in en). 13 June 2021. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/fashion/buzz/fashion-fixes-are-revolutionizing-popular-trends/articleshow/83073002.cms. 
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 "Precious Plastic is Open Source". https://preciousplastic.com/about/open-source.html. 
  13. ↑ Charter, Martin (2018-08-06) (in en). Designing for the Circular Economy. Routledge. pp. 31. ISBN 978-1-351-62390-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=ZEpnDwAAQBAJ&q=%22precious+plastic%22+hakken. 
  14. ↑ Roscam Abbing, Michiel (2019-04-04) (in en). Plastic Soup: An Atlas of Ocean Pollution. Island Press. ISBN 978-1-64283-009-5. https://books.google.com/books?id=CqeFDwAAQBAJ&q=%22precious+plastic. 
  15. ↑ Sharman, Linda (2019-12-05). "Making a difference, one lid at a time" (in en). http://www.farmweekly.com.au/story/6525111/making-a-difference-one-lid-at-a-time/. 
  16. ↑ Lenton, Dominic (2019-03-12). "Community recycling project helps reuse and rejuvenate plastic waste" (in en-US). https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2019/03/community-recycling-project-helps-reuse-and-rejuvenate-plastic-waste/. 
  17. ↑ "Precious Plastic Wants You to Build Your Own Plastics Recycling Center" (in en). 2016-05-02. https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-tech/sustainable/precious-plastic-wants-you-build-your-own-plastics-recycling-center.htm. 
  18. ↑ Ilaitia Ravuwai, Suva (March 14, 2019). "Precious Plastic Fiji To Set-Up Recycling Hubs For Plastics" (in en-US). https://fijisun.com.fj/2019/03/14/precious-plastic-fiji-to-set-up-recycling-hubs-for-plastics/. 
  19. ↑ "The Precious Plastic Initiative Aims To Change An Unhealthy Relationship" (in en-US). 2018-09-20. https://grapevine.is/news/2018/09/20/the-precious-plastic-initiative-aims-to-change-an-unhealthy-relationship/. 
  20. ↑ "We would like to get rid of the idea of single-use plastic" (in en-US). 2019-06-29. https://www.icelandreview.com/news/we-would-like-to-get-rid-of-the-idea-of-single-use-plastic/. 
  21. ↑ Cook Lauer, Nancy (2019-11-01). "Recycling groups, projects, cropping up as county reduces recycling" (in en-US). https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2019/11/01/hawaii-news/recycling-groups-projects-cropping-up-as-county-reduces-recycling/. 
  22. ↑ "2019: The Year in Review" (in en-US). 2020-01-01. https://www.westhawaiitoday.com/2020/01/01/hawaii-news/2019-the-year-in-review/. 
  23. ↑ Burnett, John (2020-01-01). "Big Island's top 10 stories include the standoff on Maunakea, ongoing lava recovery efforts, recycling woes" (in en-US). https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2020/01/01/hawaii-news/big-islands-top-10-stories-include-the-standoff-on-maunakea-ongoing-lava-recovery-efforts-recycling-woes/. 
  24. ↑ Thaitrakulpanich, Asaree (2019-05-13). "Precious Plastic: Recycling Bangkok One Bottle Cap At A Time" (in en-US). http://www.khaosodenglish.com/featured/2019/05/13/precious-plastic-recycling-bangkok-one-bottle-cap-at-a-time/. 
  25. ↑ Thaitrakulpanich, Asaree (2019-12-20). "6 Times in 2019 Thais and Expats Stood Up for the Environment" (in en-US). http://www.khaosodenglish.com/featured/2019/12/20/6-times-in-2019-thais-and-expats-stood-up-for-the-environment/. 
  26. ↑ Krug, Erica (2019-09-26). "Just one word: Plastics" (in en-us). https://isthmus.com/api/content/82009548-dfcf-11e9-bff2-12f1225286c6/. 
  27. ↑ "Meet the first Precious Plastic Verified workspaces" (in en). https://onearmy.earth//news/verified. 
  28. ↑ Dong, Mengyuan (October 7, 2018). "UT seniors launching new organization, fighting against plastic pollution - The Daily Texan" (in en). http://www.dailytexanonline.com/2018/10/07/ut-seniors-launching-new-organization-fighting-against-plastic-pollution. 
  29. ↑ Dieter, Mary (July 23, 2019). "Students provide a local answer to worldwide plastic pollution" (in en). https://www.depauw.edu/theboulder/details/students-provide-a-local-answer-to-worldwide-plastic-pollution/. 
  30. ↑ Lo, Dawn (2019-12-16). "A big idea for public recycling". https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/business-law/big-idea-public-recycling. 
  31. ↑ Kirkham, Rochelle (2019-03-11). "Waste plastic becomes a resource with this portable recycling machine" (in en). https://www.thecourier.com.au/story/5948658/waste-plastic-becomes-a-resource-with-this-portable-recycling-machine/. 

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