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Precious Plastic Romagna
What is the project about?
Plastic recycling;
Environmental education;
Where did you get the idea?
As mentioned, the project is open source and well structured on a global level.
In my case it all came from the need to produce a single piece of polyethylene for a machine not related to recycling, and the marbling of the piece made me fall in love with artisanal recycling.
How did you transform the idea into a real project?
I have been working as a metalworker for five decades, in a company whose owners allow me to build what interests me.
I have a background of mechanical design knowledge that allowed me to adapt open source machinery to my needs, so I redesigned them with improvements and built them from scratch.