{"title": "Plastic Pioneers", "logoImg": "bafkreigm7tytpfjphnfsbwe73txvqv3xmod2blo24ffsp4a7htxid73bl4", "website": "https://www.instagram.com/pioneerplastic/", "bannerImg": "bafkreidlrg5ejtog7tzkidkrgqnjktwjwdfalkztmoj52vnu3demfufmtm", "createdAt": 1722261037237, "credentials": {}, "description": " # About Plastic Pioneers\n\nPlastic Pioneers is dedicated to tackling plastic pollution, cleaning up our environment and making a positive change.\n\nWe do this by incentivising people to collect plastic waste by offering a premium price for the collected plastic, which is then upcycled into valuable products such as carabiners, roof tiles, boards, and more.\nThis approach helps clean the environment and provides economic opportunities for disadvantaged individuals.\n\n # WHO ARE PLASTIC PIONEERS\nCrafting members of society wanting to make a positive change to the people and the planet. \n\nPlastic Pioneers' vision is to create a cleaner, healthier planet by transforming plastic waste into valuable products, empowering communities, and fostering a circular economy. We envision a world where environmental sustainability and social development go hand in hand, ensuring that every piece of plastic waste collected contributes to economic opportunities and a greener future for all. \n\nThrough innovative recycling practices, education, and collaboration, we aim to lead the charge in reducing plastic pollution and building resilient, eco-friendly communities.\n\n # WHAT'S COMING\nThese are all our active projects, your contribution will enable us to build this and much more.\n\n🔜 Our first upgraded range of products: From carabiners to roof tiles we aim to make it all. Our goal is to eventually be able to employ a large number of people 10 to 1000+ that are in these lower socio-economic backgrounds to create a catalyst of exponential change.\n\n🔜 Collaborating with other big companies such as Sealand Gear to help them recycle their offcuts and materials to help serve the communities and create long-lasting sustainable change. \n[![Sealand-Gear-unique-sustainable-products-1030x687.webp](https://i.postimg.cc/QtWbGPV9/Sealand-Gear-unique-sustainable-products-1030x687.webp)](https://postimg.cc/BL4D2mT4)\n\n🔜 Create a portable, zero carbon emissions, mini-size recycling workshop bicycle in collaboration with Solar Punk Nomads to be able to give workshops in many areas and to expand our impact areas. \n[![Default-create-a-solar-punk-vehicle-that-is-a-fully-electric-b-1.jpg](https://i.postimg.cc/13yxM041/Default-create-a-solar-punk-vehicle-that-is-a-fully-electric-b-1.jpg)](https://postimg.cc/w74bjmhw)\n\n🔜 To aid the youth in becoming real changemakers by helping them create their own recycling centres in disadvantaged communities.  \n[![unnamed.jpg](https://i.postimg.cc/Kvj5xddq/unnamed.jpg)](https://postimg.cc/fJ4dvgWm)\n\n\n🔜 Build our machinery to be able to accommodate bigger projects that will require higher amounts of plastic.\n[![n-Austrian-tech-small-scale-plastic-recycling-01-1.jpg](https://i.postimg.cc/ZqR7gWJR/n-Austrian-tech-small-scale-plastic-recycling-01-1.jpg)](https://postimg.cc/v4JtxHgF)\n\nSneak peek of this project:\n🔜 Develop a way to incorporate carbon credits into our products so that it will incentivize big corporations to add to the recycling ecosystem and become more engaged with socio-economic and environmental issues, bridging the gap between big corporations and the people on the ground. \n\n # ACTIVELY EXPLORING, RESEARCHING…\n💡A carbon credits back-end accounting software to help keep track of all carbon savings. The company name is Greenly. \n\n # WHAT WE HAVE BUILT SO FAR [LATEST] [2024]\nUpdate on all that was done since the start of the year 2024.\n✔️Built our very first injection press machine, which we have used to create all of our products.\n✔️Set up a collaboration with 5 young adults to provide them with an opportunity to make money and clean up their environments.\n✔️Collect and save over 300 kgs of HDPE Plastic. \n✔️Create our first set of moulds to upcycle the plastic into. These moulds include Carabiners, tiles, coasters, garden pegs, and hexagon-shaped linking plates.\n[![Untitled-design-1.png](https://i.postimg.cc/0NpZM75b/Untitled-design-1.png)](https://postimg.cc/4Kxpj79g)\n\n\n # TEAM\nNiall Elassi (Founder): Full-time, involved in client liaison, project acquisition, and expansion operations.\n\nNicky Killeen (Co-founder and Technical Production Manager and Director): Full-time, ensures product quality, and project completion, and contributes to decision-making.\n\nAs we grow, we plan to expand our team to include additional project managers, technical experts, and community liaisons to support our scaling operations and enhance our impact.\n\n\n", "logoImgData": {}, "bannerImgData": {}}