Precious Plastic

Precious Plastic

Tools, resources and a community to start a business using plastic waste

What does this brand sell?

Sources (knowledge, starter kits), tools (workplaces), and a community to start a business using plastic waste. In their marketplace, you can find products from the business owners that are part of their platform that sell e.g. furniture, accessories, and art

Netherlands

Vegan/ vegetarian?
NA
Delivery
NA
Transportation mode
Not Applicable
Vegan / vegetarian
NA
Delivery
NA
Transportation Mode
Not Applicable

Does this brand offset carbon emissions and/or implement circular business practices?

They do not mention circularity or carbon emission offset

About The Company

Get the ins and outs

Precious Plastic is a global non-profit organisation that empowers people to start a business that recycles plastic. They share the knowledge and tools to start a business so that we can fix the planet’s plastic problem, together. They are an open source project, meaning that all knowledge (research, development, videos, code, drawings, materials) is publicly available and free. You can use their platform to start your own business to help reduce plastic waste, to connect to others and share tools and workspaces. They have resources available to start a plastic collection point, a community, a machine shop, and many other options. Alternatively, you can support their platform by donating to them. They believe we can only tackle plastic waste by small-scale, widespread projects.

“To provide a global solution to the plastic waste problem”

Although no single milestones are described, you can read their impact reports on their website, which show how many people have started recycling plastic for their business and the wider impact.

No information has been found on their future plans

No information has been found on any awards received

Product details

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Store locator

The community is active across the entire globe, check out their map.

Delivery To* (Website)

No Delivery Applicable

Subscription

This brand does not offer a subscription programme.

Store locator

The community is active across the entire globe, check out their map.

Delivery To* (Website)

No Delivery Applicable

Packaging/packaging materials

Not applicable

Donations / partnerships

They collaborate together with bigger partners, that fund the building and maintenance of the platform. They are part of a bigger project called One Army that works on global problems.

Subscription

This brand does not offer a subscription programme.

Materials

Recycled plastic products can be bought from the business owners part of their community through their online bazaar

Fully sourced and manufactured in Europe?

Unknown

Certifications

They are acknowledged as an official charity that does something for society by the Dutch Tax Autority.

Materials

Recycled plastic products can be bought from the business owners part of their community through their online bazaar

Fully sourced and manufactured in Europe?

Unknown

Packaging/packaging materials

Not applicable

Donations / partnerships

They collaborate together with bigger partners, that fund the building and maintenance of the platform. They are part of a bigger project called One Army that works on global problems.

Certifications

They are acknowledged as an official charity that does something for society by the Dutch Tax Autority.

in depth production details

Analyze their supply chain: from the sourcing of raw materials to the people who make the product

Where the plastic comes from depends on the recycling location.

The final products of the business owners who are part of the Precious Plastic community are produced in their respective countries

All information on Precious Plastic is free. The products that the business owners from the community sell range in their price as this highly depends on the product and the business, check them out here.

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Based on just 9% of the community who filled in the surveys, they have recycled over 1400 tons of plastic in 2023 alone (so likely this number is way more!).

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Further reading

You can find their most recent impact report (2023) on their website, in which they describe the impact of their recycling community on the planet. Based on just 9% of the community who filled in the survey, they have empowered over 530 people who have built businesses using Precious Plastic recycling, generating over 3.7 mission USD in revenue in 2023 alone.

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