Want To Start A Plastic Recycling Business At Your School Or Community Centre
There is money in waste, especially when you put the goggles of micro-factories on.
A micro factory is a small-scale manufacturing facility that is designed to produce a specific product or range of products. These factories are typically smaller and more compact than traditional manufacturing facilities, and they are often used to produce smaller quantities of items, such as custom or niche produ cts.
Micro factories can be used to produce a wide range of products, including electronics, automotive parts, medical devices, and consumer goods. They often use advanced technologies such as 3D printing, CNC mac
hines, and robotics to manufacture products quickly and efficiently.
Advantages of Micro factories include:
- Flexibility: Micro factories can be easily adapted to produce different products , and they can be quickly reconfigured to change production processes.
- Speed: Micro factories are often able to produce products more quickly than traditional manufacturing facilities, which can be beneficial for companies looking to get their products to market faster.
- Cost-effective: Micro factories can be more cost-effective than traditional manufacturing facilities, as they require less space and fewer resources.
- Local production: Micro factories can be set up in local communities, allowing manufacturers to produce goods closer to their customers and reduce the environmental impact of transportation.
- Customisation: micro factories have the ability to produce small batch, customised and personalised products which may not be feasible for large scale production.
Micro factories are still in a relatively early stage of development and it remains to be seen how they will impact the manufacturing industry in the long run.New Paragraph
The Lesson From Red Cycle
When the news that Red Cycle had issues with their key partner after a warehouse fire and that they were stockpiling their plastics. This wasn't a failure in a sense because we collectively managed to send in through Coles and Woolworths collection points 5000 Tonne software plastics a week to them.
We want to be part of the solution.
But what if we stopped moving waste from where it is and process it in place. That is where micro-factories come in for plastics, the open-source solution designed Precious Plastics has a full suite of video training to help you understand how to sort and recycle plastics with their systems and we can niche it down into a few things.
Like recycle plastic lids/bottles into handles for kitchens or cupboards .
Knife handles for Caddy, Japanese knives, which had a hugely successful crowdfunded campaign.
Think about something that is made from a virgin resource that could be made easily through their machines through plastic.
How To Get Started...
We already know that people are separating the lids from the bottles for Containers for Change. And we know that we can sort our soft plastics successfully so I, we believe that behavioural change is happening and if it is support a kid entrepreneur you watch how attentive adults get to do the right thing.
This is why we think getting this started in a school, Scout Hall, Sailing Club could get the kids involved in recycling plastic waste and making a product that is already in high use but make it from non-virgin plastics. Adults listen to kids, we love it when they get fired up about solutions and we want to encourage them to do more of it.
So... Get over to the website, work out what plastics you can easily collect, find the machine for that plastic, find the moulds that are already available and if you don't see the ones you need reach out and let us know and we can help put you in touch with the right people to help you get this business idea for kids further down the road.
Glass Frames - existing mould. Kitchen handles - the population growth in FNQ will mean we will need more of these handles and what a talking point they would make if we had recycling handles in our kitchens. At dinners and Xmas parties everyone would start talking about making amazing products out of waste.
There is money in waste in fact there is an entire new economy in it and it will help us save the planet, lower the cost of living and make more business opportunities for those who are passionate about being part of the solution.
Be bold, think big and give us a shout if you need help at any point at disrupting the status quo in business and waste.
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Irene Pollak
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