Precious Plastic and Grameen team posing for a picture
Jul 10, 2025

Precious Plastic meets Yunus Muhammad

Sometimes you meet your heroes, and work with them 👹⁣

While in Bangladesh I had the extreme pleasure of meeting Professor Yunus Muhammad and have a couple of exchanges on the plastic problem.⁣

Yunnus Mohammed is a Nobel Peace Prize, in the 70s he started lending money to poor people to help them get out of poverty. Commonly called micro financing this approach is used across the world nowadays.

With Precious Plastic we're in Bangladesh settings up a Precious Plastic workspace to recycle plastic in collaboration with Grameen Telecom to find a scalable solution to the plastic waste problem in the region.⁣

A moment from
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Bricks from ocean plastic

2 man in front of recycled sheet

First sheets from Nigeria

Recycled plastic hydroponic vase

Extruded hydroponic vase

man wiring cables for recycling machine

Late wiring

Pallet with disassembled machine

Flatpack Sheetpress

Plastic sheet

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plastic recycled flowerpot

Extruded flowerpot

nike shoes

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Containers being unloaded

Basekamp is almost ready!

Precious plastic machine printed

The world is getting started

Bright magazine cover

Bright cover

Shipping container converted in a workspace

Our basekamp in shipping containers

Phonebloks models

Found these old models when cleaning up

Team collecting bottles in front of a dumpsite

Collecting thousands of plastic bottles for an installation at Glow

note

Just a nice note

D&AD Award

D&AD Award

Maldives pilot

Maldives container

green plastic sheet

Working on sheets

Woman standing on landfill

Precious Plastic pilot #3 in the Maldives

kinds pants fixed and repaired

First fixes from people