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.⁣

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Precious Plastic team

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ewaste

Researching components

4 men with recycled bricks

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Precious Plastic Version 4 team enjoying a vegan lunch

Shipping container converted in a workspace

Our basekamp in shipping containers

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plastic recycled flowerpot

Extruded flowerpot

Scrapyard

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Dave's setup for the extrusion.

Prototype Extrusion

Youtube channel

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Boijmans museum

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Man working on a recycling extruder machine

Brick making training

Plastic recycled plastic knife handle.

Plastic Knife

Pecha Kucha conference

Pecha kucha night

Script

Phone project