Clean Currents Launches Kickstarter Stimulate For 3D Impress Filament Made From Bounding Main Plastic
About
Clean Currents is a supplier of bounding main plastic based inwards Washington, D.C. We've developed the foremost 3D printer filament made from bounding main plastic too volition shortly offering pellets, thread, too more.
Our filament is PETG, comes inwards Black, White, too Clear colors, likewise equally 1.75mm too 2.85mm diameters, too is slap-up lineament amongst no impurities whatsoever, it prints only similar a normal filament. Visit our Kickstarter too dorsum if you lot believe inwards our mission.
Every yr over xviii Billion pounds of plastic empty into our oceans, adding onto the five trillion pieces already there. We’re outset to encounter this pollution creep into our H2O provide too our nutrient inwards the shape of “micro-plastics”. These materials possess got centuries to decompose too in i lawsuit they interruption up, nosotros lose rail of them forever. That’s why it’s too then of import nosotros human action equally shortly equally possible, this occupation has a fourth dimension limit.
The skillful word is that bounding main plastic has received a lot of attending recently, companies similar The Final Straw too The Ocean Cleanup Project possess got alerted millions to the problem. The bad word is that non nearly plenty is existence done to genuinely halt the problem.
Our Plan
How nosotros innovation to ready the occupation is past times democratizing bounding main plastic. We’re making bounding main plastic accessible too tardily to role too then that anyone who wants to contain it into their move tin amongst only i click.
We know that nosotros could never sell billions of bounding main plastic products past times ourselves, but collectively, nosotros mean value the globe can. We envision thousands of teams utilizing these materials inwards new, creative ways and, equally a whole, making a huge touching on on the global problem.
One of our principal concerns is amongst having an overall positive impact. We desire to avoid having a heavy carbon-footprint too altogether existence inefficient amongst our recovery effort.
The bulk of bounding main plastic tin live easily prevented from always making it into the ocean. Many of our recovery methods don’t focus direct on collecting plastic from the middle of an bounding main because that’s non where most of it genuinely is. The most of import locations are rivers too beaches.
We’re focusing on what has been proven to move inwards the past times similar keeping costs low, working amongst locals equally much equally possible, too creating sustainable long-term progress.
Why We Chose Haiti?
Haiti’s population is spread out pretty uniformly over the country, except for their capital, Port-Au-Prince, where 2.3 1000000 people live. The city’s increment has led to the creation of the infamous Trutier dump. Over 800 tons of plastic too garbage are emptied into this dump every unmarried day; why this should affair to you lot is because this dump is only 200 feet from the sea.
Heavy pelting or flooding is all it takes to launder literally thousands of tons of plastic into the bounding main all at once. This is the ugly truth of bounding main plastic: 80% of it originates from these kinds of land-based sources.
The entirety of Republic of Haiti imports roughly 40,000 pounds of plastic each day. The foremost destination for our Republic of Haiti performance is to equal that amount inwards recovery: exporting 40,000 pounds of plastic every day. Surprisingly, this would only require i shipping container of our recycled fabric leaving the port every 24 hours.
This is absolutely achievable! With our mixture of recovery methods similar collection centers, beach sifters, river skimmers, too trawlers nosotros projection existence able to reach this 40,000 lbs/day destination inside three years.
Haiti is the best house to start our cleanup effort; it has an abundance of beaches too rivers too then nosotros tin exam too implement our novel recovery machines, it’s located relatively closed to our headquarters inwards the United States, minimizing shipping fourth dimension dorsum too forth, and, most importantly, it’s the largest contributor of bounding main plastic inwards the entire Caribbean. By fixing Haiti’s plastic problem, nosotros would live having a massive touching on on the whole region.
What Will Our Kickstarter Accomplish?
Our Kickstarter destination is $15,000; nosotros innovation to role this coin to reach three principal objectives:
• Create a permanent presence inwards Haiti. Moving past times our partnerships amongst local organizations, nosotros volition live able to collect the pollution ourselves past times establishing a collection middle too past times installing our clean-up machines inwards strategic locations similar congested rivers, canals, too beaches.
• Purchase the manufacturing equipment necessary to create our 3D Printer filament on a large scale. Quality machines exercise lineament products; that’s why we’re planning on spending a 3rd of what nosotros heighten inwards Kickstarter on the mechanism alone.
• Complete an in-depth, first-of-its-kind survey of Haiti’s bounding main plastic problem. Part of our philosophy is that to exercise a consummate solution, you lot demand to possess got a consummate pic of what the occupation is inwards the foremost place. This sort of survey has never been done before, fifty-fifty the most recent, too most cited survey of Haiti’s plastic pollution completed past times Dell lastly yr relies mainly on satellite images, non first-hand sense (Dell Report). This written report volition embrace all of Haiti’s rivers, beaches, too coastline too volition live made populace for costless too then everyone working on the occupation tin possess got access to the best information possible. Armed amongst this survey, everyone volition live able to know just where the pollution is.
Why We Chose To Launch H5N1 Kickstarter?
Clean Currents started out amongst a real unlike mission; nosotros wanted to exercise reusable H2O bottles from recycled bounding main plastic. But equally nosotros worked too researched, nosotros kept hitting walls. There was no shortage of businesses that wanted to role these materials, but no i was supplying it.
One company would possess got required us to purchase 500 tons equally a minimum club (about $300,000) and another would only lease us their patented nets for $20,000 a year.
We idea that if at that spot were too then many barriers too roadblocks to brand fifty-fifty a elementary H2O bottle out of bounding main plastic, how many other modest businesses were existence prevented from making their products out of these materials.
We were misled when nosotros started Clean Currents, nosotros believed that this occupation was already existence solved past times companies around the world, but it isn’t.
Disappointed too frustrated, our squad gathered around a whiteboard too asked: “What should hap when somebody wants to role bounding main plastic? Ideally, what would the procedure expect like?”
What nosotros arrived at was a elementary plan. Clean Currents takes attention of recovery, recycling, too transportation 100% too ships bounding main plastic inwards useful forms similar 3D printer filament too spools of thread direct to you.
Anywhere inwards the world, you lot tin purchase equally footling equally i pound of our materials, it volition instruct inwards at your doorstep only similar a normal package.
We started Clean Currents believing this solution already existed when nosotros found out that it didn’t nosotros knew nosotros had to live the ones to brand it a reality.
Author: Adam Smith
(Founder, Clean Currents)
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