This channel has two main goals: Share with the community what the Precious Plastic team is working on to keep everyone up-to-date with the latest developments. People can create threads to fire the conversation.
Hi Precious People !
Here's what the team is working on this quarter (January - March)
Setup legal entity in Portugal @Joseph
Release of new Bazar platform (same software, but upgraded with some exciting new features ) @Kat โ
Publishing a live data feed of the Bazar @Hugh โ
Refreshing the Map by clearing out inactive pins and improving quality of other profiles @Hugh โ
Finishing a documentation push @Carolina for new versions of:
-- Extruder Pro (with PBS Machinery @Peter-Bas ) โ
-- Shredder Pro (with @Thomas Peterberns | Johannplasto and Le Recycleur Fou @Landry ) โ
-- Injection (with PBS Machinery @Peter-Bas)
-- Sheetpress System 1.2meter size @Yann โ
Finishing documentation for washing machine we deployed in Algeria UNHCR collab @Yann@Carolina โ
Releasing mould designs for flowerpot and beads in partnership with Easymoulds @Fritz @easymoulds โ
Releasing a new top secret page on the website and a new navigation bar @Mattia โ
Releasing three collab videos from 2021 on new youtube channel @Mattia โ
If there is something here that you are keen to help on, reach out to us and we can see how to get you involved. Also feel free to ask questions in the thread here about anything we are doing! Would love to use this channel's threads as a place to interact.
Cheers,
Hello everyone,
We are currently working with a proper shredder company to develop a new shredder PRO.
They are called WEIMA, and check their website, they know what they are doing
We came with this brief :
At least as efficient as the V4 PRO shredder (50kg/h or more then)
Cheaper than the V4 PRO shredder (maximum 3000โฌ in EU and minimal assembly work)
Flexible : possible to upgrade or adapt it for automatization, maintenance etc...
Their first conclusion is that a double axis like the SHRPRO will not reach these requirements. So yesterday they showed their first idea.
This is a single axe shredder, that can have different shredding rotors, with 2 screens that can be manually pushed to press plastic against the rotor.
Here is their presentation :
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KjsbZRWkdKs3x0fE2-iLd9HKTYp13xcA/view?usp=sharing
Please keep in mind this is just a concept render for the moment, more detailed engineering for the fabrication will be done in the following weeks. Also they will built a first prototype in April, to get a first idea on the concept.
Let us know what you think, particularly machine builders like @Machine shop(edited)
Hello everyone,
This is the thread for feedback on the summary of the data behind the Bazar from 2021 to help out our beloved #archived-bazar-sellers
If you think there is other data that may be interesting to see, add it to this thread and we can discuss the possibilities โค๏ธ
You can find the tool here: https://datastudio.google.com/s/piCVH2C-0QY
Hey fam
Over the past weeks I've been working on thumbs & titles for the Nigeria Collab coming out March 1st (make sure to signup to the premiere and new Precious Plastic channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAK4C6aa-BXlqD2KsTx54xw)
After proposing a bunch of different options, our Patrons voted for this one (https://www.patreon.com/posts/vote-thumbnail-61944990) along with this title "Nigerian Entrepreneurs are turning plastic waste into $$$$"
What ya think? Let us know in the threads!(edited)
Hey people!
Last couple of months we've been working on an update for the BAZAR
Among many bugs fixes and design changes, we:
found a way to solve the card payment issues!
improved messaging and checkout page
improved mobile version ...
Some of you already discovered the test page https://newbazar.preciousplastic.com - you can check it out, but please don't sign up or order anything yet.
Now we're just in the migration process from NewBazar to Bazar and are excited to be online with major improvements for our buying and selling community very soon!
If you're a seller, make sure to check your mails to get your account ready (and join the #archived-bazar-sellers channel for updates and discussions!).
And if you have any questions, feedback, ideas, drop it here in the thread โ๏ธ
Hey @Precious Plastic people,
We are redoing the Precious Plastic FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) on our website and Instagram for newcomers who may have further questions about the project. A lot of you here have started a workspace and may have had many questions before starting that may have been missing. We would love to hear back from you so that we can better help everyone who is and wanting to become a part of the Precious Plastic Community!
It would be a great help to get feedback from you by just reviewing our current FAQ page (https://community.preciousplastic.com/academy/support/faq) and adding in questions that you think are missing or are not necessary.
You can add them in this thread. Thank you!!!
Hello everyone!
Together with @Joostie we are working on redesiging the Injection machine into an improved Arbor-press design, that later on will be open sourced online for free as you might have guessed . Joost will be regularly posting updates in the #archived-arbor-press-dev channel to show the progress and get feedback from the community, mostly from those who already have experience using different Arbor press designs, so, any of your help and feedback is greatly appreciated! Here's the brief Joost will be following, so feel free to check it out to have a better sense of this new development https://tinyurl.com/ArborPressBrief
See you there!(edited)
Hello everyone !
Last week we was back in Lagos, Nigeria. If you remember we installed a sheet-press and a shredder there last year : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSGz05O5Meg !
They had some issue with the shredder lately, so we came to repair it. We also use this time to update their shredder box with the latest design that will be released soon. Hopefully they are good to run smooth for another year now !
As we had some time after, we use it to film a "how to make a sheet" video. We have all this videos on how to make machines, but didn't document their use yet, so this is also coming !
And as before, we enjoyed Lagos, a very vibrant city !
Heyo, as you might have noticed I've been working on a redesign for the Precious Plastic side of things here on Discord
The goal of this redesign is increase engagement and usefulness of Discord for our Precious Plastic workspaces as well as newcomers while increasing openness and transparency.
What's new
Users now need to emoji react on #๐start-here to access specific channels. The goal behind this is to segment users with different goals (find or offer help / contribute to Precious Plastic) in the appropriate channels.
Support channels to find and offer help (marked by ).
Work Group channels to invite people to contribute to Precious Plastic ecosystem (marked by ).
We have started using Events here on Discord to have more agile and direct connection with the community.
As a team we are transitioning from Slack to Discord to be more present where the community hangs.
Let us know in the thread what you think about the new Discord. What works, what doesn't, what's annoying and everything in between.
Hello everyone !
Last week we were in New-York city to install a small recycling lab in a cosmetic shop. Korres, our partner on this collab, incentivises their client to bring back their plastic container, by offering them soap cases or other products manufactured in the back of the shop.
For this collab we really brought the community together :
@Rory - Sustainable Design Studio provided a nice 110V injection machine,
@CitSciWorkshop manufactured a imperial converted shredder,
@Fritz @easymoulds designed and milled a custom soap case mould,
And eventually we went on site to install these machines and train the local Precious Plastic New York City !
All members of the community nailed their specialty and this resulted in a successful project !
Hopefully more will come soon !
Hi everyone!
As a reminder we are currently working on developing an "arbor-press" style injection machine. Open sourced and fully documented for the community
Little update about this project. After the amazing presentation of @Joostie a few weeks ago we decided to post his progress in our new Research module (that's currently still in beta), where you will find the research findings, best practices and design direction for the first design phase.
We wanted to invite you to become a beta tester of the research module and contribute with some comments and suggestions to achieve the best possible design for the community
https://community.preciousplastic.com/research/make-open-source-arbor-press-injection-machine
In the coming days @Joostie will be posting some progress on the CAD in #archived-arbor-press-dev channel, so stay tuned!
Hi everyone!
I am currently writing up an analytics breakdown of our Instagram account. I first started writing this to show the @Communication Contributor what has been maximising Reach and Engagement and what needs improvement.
Writing this breakdown, we thought it could be useful for the @Precious Plastic Community to understand what we look for and track. It can also give an understanding of the audience that we have and give you insights into where you could maximise your accounts.
Now I am curious to know what you would like to see. What data would you like to see, and what information would you like to get out of the breakdown?
For example of what I can provide. Currently, I have been focusing on first impressions and how that relates to engagement and reach. But, not currently in the report, I have been tracking time and subject matter and effects of caption writing on that.
If you could leave your thoughts in the thread below, that would be great. After everything is written, I will share the full report, plus a short 2-page summary that outlines the key data and a presentation that I will give to the current @Communication Contributor.
I look forward to your input!
CALLING OUR BRICK PEOPLE!
This week we are kicking off a new project to analyze and design a new open source recycled plastic brick. Join us for a meeting this Thursday to hear about the context / scope of the current stage of the project and see how you can contribute!
Agenda:
Project context and scope - @Joseph
Outputs for first stage of project - @Yann
How you can contribute - @Yann
Design context/known drawbacks of current precious plastic brick -@Rory - Sustainable Design Studio
โโ๏ธ Open Discussion - everyone
Details:
Date: Thursday, June 2nd
Time: 6pm CEST
Location: https://meet.google.com/yyq-csyd-ngn (mark interested in the discord events section to get notified)
Follow the project as it develops in the #archived-brick-dev channel
See you there (edited)
Hello everyone !
As you know we are collaborating with Weima, to design a new shredder PRO, and they finally manage to build the first prototype despite some challenges with parts delivery (like everyone !).
And it is looking neat !
Go on #archived-shredder-dev for more information and participation !
Back in May @Yann went to Lagos Nigeria to monitor on our Collab https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSGz05O5Meg
While there, to make the most from the visit, we filmed "How to make a sheet" video which is now almost ready to share with the world
Stay tuned(edited)
Heyo! We are happy to welcome @Sigolene and @Taylor in the Bazar crew to help improving and pushing the Bazar
For the next Sprint we will optimise the Bazar experience and quality - in preparation for an ad campaign to help the Bazar sellers to sell their precious machines, moulds and products!
More specifically this comes with:
Supporting sellers to boost their listings
Creating an email strategy for a smooth flow and to engage better with the users
(And as always, ongoing bug fixing and improving the overall User Interface)
Excited to work with this new team - and amazed by the fact that we manage to find meeting times even though we are literally spread from one corner of the globe to the other!
Crazy world. (edited)
alert!
@Yann and I recently went to Nigeria to do market research for a new recycled plastic brick and production center we're working on. The project is sponsored by the Dutch innovation government agency to encourage locally produced building materials in developing countries. We met with existing brick manufacturers, Nigerian government officials, developers, and more.
This picture is from a visit we did with local school builders in a section of Lagos called Makoko. We were checking a location to see if we could build a small classroom or recreation center as a demonstration building made from the new brick. The next phase of the project starts in 2023, so stay tuned and follow #archived-brick-dev for updates!
Last week we went to visit @Joostie in Delft to test together the new Arbor press design! ๏ธ We managed to inject cups, carabiners and even the socket! We've also been using a great mould made by @Fritz @easymoulds to find the limits of the machine. We will also try this mould with the lever injection machine pretty soon, so that we can compare the results So remember to join #archived-arbor-press-dev to follow the process and see the results!
PS: Stay tuned for little sneak peak video we will be sharing with you all very soon!
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Last week we went to visit @Joostie in Delft to test together the new Arbor press design! ๏ธ We managed to inject cups, carabiners and even the socket! We've also been using a great mould made by @Fritz @easymoulds to find the limits of the machine. We will also try this mould with the lever injection machine pretty soon, so that we can compare the results So remember to join #archived-arbor-press-dev to follow the process and see the results!
PS: Stay tuned for little sneak peak video we will be sharing with you all very soon!
really nice team work and loved to see all the different ways of how you communicated this development steps! Online gatherings, update videos, updates written on discord etc. very nice to see everything coming together, Great work!
@Yann went to visit and test the new Shredder Pro in Germany Works amazing! And we're now making a nice video about it, stay tuned โ๏ธ
Make sure to follow #archived-shredder-dev for the latest on the new shredder(edited)
I am currently shooting a series of YouTube videos from Indonesia to share the amazing recycling work happening here. Looking forward to share them with the community.
Let's revive this channel a little shall we We're working hard, in collaboration with Mad Plastic and Johanplasto, to open source the new Arbor Press for the whole community to use. We're working around the clock to release the machine, drawings and video tutorials before the end of 2023!(edited)
Hey ho, @Precious Plastic friends โจ
Have you noticed some changes on our Discord channels?
Let us explain whatโs different and why โฌ๏ธโจ
Long story short: we listened to the feedback of many users that feel there are too many loose conversations across too many channels. Thatโs how we figured out that it would be beneficial to tide up the Precious Plastic Community talking space to make it better organised and more chat-friendly.
So, whatโs new?
From now on, it should be easier to concentrate our discussions in threads thanks to:
โ new forum channels
โ dedicated tags for different topics
You can see how they work here: https://www.loom.com/share/d1c33694ddf64a2dabbded47626313d6?sid=d665b807-8f48-4550-8ca9-140e7a3fdbb1โน๏ธ What has happened to the old channels?
We've stopped all activity in them. Donโt worry though - they'll be available until 31st of December 2023, so you can save any conversation you need. ๏ธ On January 1st, 2024, the old channels will be deleted.
Do you still have questions?
Comment here
Let us know how you like our new Discord! โจ