Local Non-profit Takes Trash and Turns it into Art

One person sees an empty hummus container and thinks, “I need to add hummus to the grocery list.”

Another person sees the same empty hummus container and thinks, “I have an opportunity to change the world.” That is the inspiration behind Free Plastic, an organization turning trash into artistic treasure in South Florida.

“I realized that 3+ plastic hummus containers per week were adding up to a very large unrecycled, single-use plastic footprint,” Free Plastic co-founder Nathan Moyer said. “I am not good in the kitchen and can’t make my own hummus anywhere close to the caliber of my favorite store-bought goodness. I watched [our] hummus containers pile up in our recycling bin. I had to make a choice: either learn to cook or build a non-profit recycling company that could actually recycle my favorite hummus containers. The decision was easy.”

Moyer and Amancio Paradela, two members of the LGBT community, ran with the idea and created Free Plastic, a non-profit focused on a cleaner and more artistic world. Things made of plastic spend some time in our cabinets, on our shelves, and in our fridges. But they spend most of their time in landfills or, worse, in the air as pollution. …continue reading on SFGN.