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
Mattia

More moments

Extruded lamp

Kees is making stuff with plastic

Dutch Queen shaking hands with Dave

Solid handshake

Conference

Ara – DevCon

Vegan food in a plate

Delicious vegan food, everyday!

Sheetpress machine

Playful Sheetpress

Youtube channel

1 Million!

Man wearing a gasmask

Business guy In the workspace

Hand holding an envelop

We have shipped the first One Army rewards!

Fixing Fashion badge in the shape of a hashtag

Fixing Fashion badge is here

portrait of a man

First helper

machines packed

Transport approved

Mexico team of students setting up Precious Plastic

Machines in Mexico

Woman drying shredded plastic

Faces of Dhaka

Rocket Stove

DIY aluminum moulds

Dave getting a machine ready

Blueprints in the making

Dave's setup for the extrusion.

Prototype Extrusion

Colourful waterfilters

Waterfilters by Taller Esfèrica in Spain

man wiring cables for recycling machine

Late wiring

Magazine cover

Coverboy

Maldives pilot

Maldives container