Šimon & Lukáš + a good couple of beers + a moment of serendipity: Umelohmotné was born.
We’ve reached out to Adele & friends to ask a few questions about to their experience of building the machines, finding capital and creating recycled products in China (not the most recycling prone country on the planet, yet). Here is a little recap.
This month we bought a container, went to New York to think about ocean plastic and ate 23 KG of suitcase-avocado!
We believe waste should not be seen as waste, but rather as a valuable resource to create beauty and function. Stay loopy! We’re very happy to introduce Melt Collective, a group of university students from the University of British Columbia working on Precious Plastic.
Location saga, welding tragedy,”pole pole” culture, glue kids & more. Find out more about our experience of creating the first-ever Precious Plastic pilot in Kisii, Kenya.
A belgium organiztion taking Precious Plastic to Senegal.
We’ve reached out to the Spanish team designing some of the greatest Precious Plastic products so far and talked about their design practice and role in society.
This month we went to Kenya, flew a drone on the landfill and starter a research on PET bottle + a special message for you supporters!
A week fully immersed into building a Precious Plastic workspace in Kisii.
Ressourc’in is pushing the limits of Precious Plastic.
Skiing and hiking are one of the key elements of Austrian culture. Our friends @soeren from Austria and Uganda come up with an idea to produce skiing and hiking poles out of bamboo. They build Precious Plastic machine to make the grips and tips using recycled plastic.
Still Life (@stilllife) is a design workshop from Glasgow, inspired by the youtube-spread Precious Plastic movement. They experiment with colours, textures and forms with plastic as their raw material.
Naga Earth is a non – profit social enterprise that works on various recycling projects to reduce the environmental impact of the tourism industry in Siem Reap.
It’s almost summer, with white beaches and sunny seasides already in our heads. In Greece, Stam & friends are getting ready for summer season building machines and making products for tourists.
Our news updates from April! The team is growing big, we set up a decent lunch system. Shredded a shitload of plastic and got patches + stickers.
Realizing the plastic recycling problem in Hong Kong, a group of 5 university students (@wkhs) from Chinese University of Hong Kong has started building Precious Plastic Machine in January 2017.
Scouting the web we’ve recently come across this beautiful Precious Plastic workshop in the city of Jacmel, Haiti. Truly amazing effort to bring a plastic recycling workshop to one of the poorest countries in the world.
We love to see people and organizations coming together to create great initiatives to take care of their beautiful environments. Because, we all like beautiful beaches- don’t we?
We’re very impressed with this beautiful stools designed with Precious Plastic machines in France.
The guys in Ukraine have kept busy with a number of great tests and workshops!
