110R_Global survey of Precious Plastic Projects: A summary of findings (research summary)

Are you interested in plastic recycling and reuse?  Our summary today works with the report titled Global survey of Precious Plastic Projects: A summary of findings from 2020 by Dr Wouter Spekkink, Dr Malte Rödl, and Professor Martin Charter, supported by the Precious Plastic Team and the Sustainable Consumption Institute of University of Manchester.  Precious Plastic was a previous endeavour of our next interviewee, Dave Hakkens in episode 111.  Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how a grassroots movement like Precious Plastic can create a community with active users and projects. This report presents the projects and workspaces connected to Precious Plastic through the analysis of user questionnaires. As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects: Precious Plastic was founded by Dave Hakkens but currently is grown to be an international grassroots movement to recycle and reuse plastic locally. The movement represents a practical approach to environmentalism in which people go beyond campaigning to make a difference in the world and literally bring alternatives into practice. The movement created a glocal community with small local initiatives but global online outreach sharing knowledge and starting business opportunities from plastic recycling with open source machines, workspaces and product ideas. You can find the report through this link. Connecting episodes you might be interested in: No.018 - Interview with María Jose Yanez about sustainable urban living and developments; No.111 - Interview with Dave Hakkens about sustainable living and their next project, Project Kamp; You can find the transcript through this link. What wast the most interesting part for you? What questions did arise for you? Let me know on Twitter @WTF4Cities or on the wtf4cities.com website where the shownotes are also available. I hope this was an interesting episode for you and thanks for tuning in. Music by Lesfm from Pixabay