Which the artist lik for their properties. He realiz that plastic has potential, because you can make anything from it: from keychains to statues. Artem was inspir to open an entire laboratory by a large international project by.
Dutch designer Dave Hakkens, Precious Plastic
Its goal is to ruce the amount of plastic waste by . The project began in 2012 as Dave’s diploma work, but over time it has scal up, and now his workshops are in several countries. Workshop in the garage and homemade machines.
The Precious Plastic website has instructions
On how to build recycling machines – it’s a kind of school for beginners. According to Artem, all Russian plastic recycling labs were inspir by this project; and he himself learn a lot from it. In 2020, the artist sav up money, began to study machine stockholder database tools and production he ne 150 thousand rubles to launch the startup.
At that time, he was a photographer at
The zoo and sav money for his project from his salary. Artem believes that in 2024, it is possible to keep within the initial 200 thousand, but on condition that the machines are manufactur independently. “If you want to take a simpler r irection has several stages: path, then the finish equipment will cost 400-500 thousand rubles,” he says.
Free course How to Start an
Eco-Friendly Business The course provides an idea of the main directions of projects that currently exist in the field of ecology, as well as ways to green an existing business. Experts talk about the stages of building a “green business”, risks and possible problems. Artem open his first workshop in his relatives’ garage: together with his friend Rasim, they assembl the necessary set for production. It would be problematic to make something similar at home: the heat press fits on a computer desk, but the other machines do not, because they are larger usa data in size. Installing the equipment from scratch, essentially knowing nothing about it, was not easy.