One of the key pieces of waste that we see a lot of locally is plastic. Short of major industrial plastic recycling operations, the ability to effectively recycle plastic is not available at a consumer level.

In Canada, we produce over 3 million tonnes of plastic waste, yearly. Only 9% of that plastic is even theoretically recycled, and much of the plastic that is claimed to be recycled is, in fact, not.

There have been a number of projects to develop open-source plastic-recycling machinery, most notably Precious Plastic. We aim to use these technologies to set up and run small-scale plastic recycling, the output of which we will then use to create and sell tools, devices, art, and more, to help our community and to grow the collective’s resources.