Hounslow's Precious Plastic project is a local community solution to an ever growing environmental plastic problem ! We all now have heard about impacts of plastic pollution on our environment every day. Here, in Hounslow Borough, we want to make a change and a difference. We want the Community of Hounslow to become part of a solution to this ever growing environment concern. Everyone of us have a responsibility as plastic consumers to find way to reduce the use of it and/or recycle it and this is what Hounslow Precious Plastic is about! Based on "Precious Plastic" movement that started in 2013 as a solution to the problem that is plastic waste. Precious Plastic is more than just recycling, it is REUSING. The process is simple : 1/Collect discarded plastic 2/Process it: shred it into small pieces and 2/ Recycle it by remould it! We need your help so that we can turn plastic into re-usable products such as jewellery items, mobile phone cases and more!

What we'll deliver:

• Create a Small Local Community Collection Plastic Recycling Centre with 4 x Plastic Recycling Machines
• Create a Local Community Team of "Anti-Plastic Warriors", "Triage & Processing Specialists" and "Recycling Champions"
• Display Locally recycled plastic items
• Run Educational Local Discovery Recycling Workshops

Why it's a great idea:

Here, in Hounslow Borough, we want to make a change and a difference. We want the Community of Hounslow to become part of a solution to this ever growing environment concern. Everyone of us have a responsibility as plastic consumers to find way to reduce the use of it and/or recycle it and this is what Hounslow Precious Plastic is about! Setting up such a local plastic recycling centre would allow for vast amounts of plastic in the borough of Hounslow to be RECYCLED, REUSED and REPURPOSED in a Fun and Creative way getting the local community involved in various part of this process. We are focusing of 3 aspect of the plastic problem in hounslow: 1/ creating and addition plastic collection by the community itself 2/ bringing awareness to the local community and local schools 3/ showing that repurposing can be beautiful and fun

Steps to get it done:

• Find best public space for our Small Community Plastic Recycling Centre
• Purchase of Industrial Container to convert into our Plastic Recycling Centre
• Purchase 4 x Plastic Recycling Machines for Plastic Recycling Centre
• Recruit Team of Volunteers : for Collection, Triage, Processing & Recycling
• Train Team of Volunteers in their positions
• Plan & allocate tasks : Collection, Triage, Processing & Recycling
• Contact and PlanWorkshop delivery in local schools and local public events
• Exhibit locally and online recycled plastic items
• Celebrate and share our Community impact

"Precious Plastic" is an established global community of hundreds of people working towards a solution to plastic pollution. This successful movement started in 2013 as a solution to the problem that is plastic waste. We are ready to bring Precious Plastic solution to Hounslow but we need your help getting our project funded !