Precious Plastic values recycling plastic waste with new technologies

Precious Plastic is a community that started in the Netherlands with the main goal of fighting “plastic pollution”. For this, they created a network of workspaces where all the tools and machines give a second life to plastics, either directly as new models or as a filament for 3D printing.

So far, we have generated more than 8 tons of plastic waste on Earth and only 8% of them are recycled. It is for this reason that Precious Plastic was born; the community thus favors the circular economy, like the Australian micro-factory. To better understand the genesis of the project and its challenges, we spoke with Mattia Bernini, one of its developers.

3DN: Can you introduce yourself and tell us how came the idea of ​​Precious Plastic to be?

Hello, my name is Mattia Bernini, designer and in charge of strategy at Precious Plastic. We started working on the project when we realised that less than 10% of the plastic is recycled worldwide. So we decided to create a solution that could be located between large inaccessible recycling companies and people like you and me. Give them solutions to work with plastic waste to try to solve this disaster that we created.