two man posing in Nigeria

Jul 10, 2025

Precious Plastic in Nigeria

Precious Plastic is currently in Lagos, Nigeria to help Victor, a local recycling entrepreneur.‍

The goal of this project is to help him boost up his work and take his recycling work to the next level. We're coming equipped with the latest Sheetpress :)

A moment from

Joseph

More moments

Three people in front of a van

Wild office

Phonebloks models

Found these old models when cleaning up

waste in the Maldives

Exotic waste

Pecha Kucha conference

Pecha kucha night

Group of people standing in front of a workspace

Precious Plastic team

Dave's setup for the extrusion.

Prototype Extrusion

Containers being unloaded

Basekamp is almost ready!

A pan and a strainer to dye with avocado

Avocado dyeing in Barcelona

Team collecting bottles in front of a dumpsite

Collecting thousands of plastic bottles for an installation at Glow

Plastic recycled plastic knife handle.

Plastic Knife

Shipping container converted in a workspace

Our basekamp in shipping containers

portrait of a man

First helper

Mattia on a boat looking out

To boat or not to boat?

Precious Plastic CE Certified Shredder

CE Certified Shredder

Vegan food in a plate

Delicious vegan food, everyday!

Fixed pants

New fixes from Estonia

Dave getting a machine ready

Blueprints in the making

Extrusion machine

Extrusion hacks

Maldives pilot

Maldives container

Scrapyard

Hardware store