Precious Plastic and Grameen team posing for a picture
Jul 10, 2025

Precious Plastic meets Yunus Muhammad

Sometimes you meet your heroes, and work with them 👹⁣

While in Bangladesh I had the extreme pleasure of meeting Professor Yunus Muhammad and have a couple of exchanges on the plastic problem.⁣

Yunnus Mohammed is a Nobel Peace Prize, in the 70s he started lending money to poor people to help them get out of poverty. Commonly called micro financing this approach is used across the world nowadays.

With Precious Plastic we're in Bangladesh settings up a Precious Plastic workspace to recycle plastic in collaboration with Grameen Telecom to find a scalable solution to the plastic waste problem in the region.⁣

A moment from
Mattia

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kinds pants fixed and repaired

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Maldives pilot

Maldives container

Conference

Ara – DevCon

Injection machine

Injector in Sri Lanka

Mexico team of students setting up Precious Plastic

Machines in Mexico

ewaste

Researching components

Woman standing on landfill

Precious Plastic pilot #3 in the Maldives

Shipping container converted in a workspace

Our basekamp in shipping containers

Badged.

Badges are here!

Youtube channel

1 Million!

Shredded car bumpers

Car bumpers

Team collecting bottles in front of a dumpsite

Collecting thousands of plastic bottles for an installation at Glow

two man posing in Nigeria

Precious Plastic in Nigeria

Mattia on a boat looking out

To boat or not to boat?

Group of people serving food

Precious Plastic Version 4 team enjoying a vegan lunch

Precious plastic machine printed

The world is getting started

plastic waste from the beach

Ocean Plastic

parts of a phone

Modular phone in progress

Dave getting a machine ready

Blueprints in the making

man wiring cables for recycling machine

Late wiring