Another collab is in the bag! This time we partnered up with a local tinkerer/maker to create a desk valet with a deconstructed clock! While they handled the tear down and rebuild of the mid-century table clock, the Free Plastic … Read More
Free Plastic Phase 2: Infrastructure
We aren’t in hiding. We didn’t drown in ocean plastics (although it felt like a certain plastic farmer was trying to do just that). We didn’t give up, and we didn’t take a vacation (but wow, does a vacation sound … Read More
Defining “Unrecyclable” Plastics
Recyclable vs Unrecyclable Plastics A lot of our language uses the terms “recyclable” and “unrecyclable”, and those definitions have evolved with Free Plastic since the start of the year. Broward county used to have a rule that only narrow-necked plastic … Read More
Free Plastic’s New River Table
Our latest project was to manufacture a River Table — part reclaimed pallet wood, part tinted epoxy, and part unrecyclable plastic pollution farmed from the beaches at Dr. Von D. Mizell-Eula Johnson State Park. This prototype used 79 grams of … Read More
Key Challenge Trophies
Each year the Key Biscayne Citizen Scientist Project’s Key Challenge engages the schools in and near Key Biscayne to increase their students’ appreciation and knowledge of Key Biscayne’s & Biscayne Bay’s natural resources. At the end of the year long … Read More
One fish, two fish, plaster fish, post-consumer-single-use-plastic fish
Our first experiment was with a small plaster fish. Our thought was to create a decorative object that would be of value to someone, and that would be a vessel for plastics that could not (or would not) be recycled … Read More
Free Plastic is on Instagram
Hi!!! We started on Instagram before we started building our site. You can check us out, follow us, and chat with us over at @freeplasticorg This was our first post: Free Plastic 101: Making a Trophy Step 1: Farm plastics from … Read More