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Precious Plastic Open Source Fund

This fund aims to provide the financial resources, aka money, to generate open source small-scale plastic recycling innovations.

About



👋 Welcome to the Precious Plastic Open Source Fund (PPOSF)!
The PPOSF is a fund (with €103.115 so far!) that will help generate new open-source designs to be shared for free with the world on the Community Platform to tackle the big plastic waste problem together.

The fund will cover existing recycling solutions through How-to guides, Research projects and retroactively reward people that contributed to open-source without financial incentives prior the PPOSF.
Watch this video to learn more.

🚀 The fund aims to:

  • Create an environment that attracts and incentivizes designers and engineers globally to contribute their recycling designs free and open-source
  • Provide financial resources for Precious Plastic members to generate, refine and share open-source designs and solutions
  • Foster a culture where community members share their work on a global scale, with due recognition and the opportunity to have their development costs covered by the fund
  • Reward organisations that shared recycling knowledge free and open source in the past

You can follow the progress selected projects on the website.

💰 Get paid 
For the awarded projects you can submit an invoice following the steps below:
- Watch this loom that walk you through the process
- Read through this document for all details

Long live open source


Contribute


Become a financial contributor.

Financial Contributions

Custom contribution
Donation
Make a custom one-time or recurring contribution.

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One-time contribution
Open Source Champion

Benefits: 1) A day in the life of a recycler: spend a whole day learning the ins and outs of recycling plastic with Precious Plastic in one of th... Read more

Starts at
€100,000 EUR

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Custom contribution
Sustainability Supporter

Benefits: 1) Precious Plastic Gift: hand-picked recycled gift from one of our global recyclers. 2) Shout out: prominent logo placement on promotio... Read more

Starts at
€50,000 EUR

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Custom contribution
Community Supporter

Benefits: 1) Shout out: logo placement on promotional materials, the database, social media, and website

Starts at
€10,000 EUR

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Budget


Transparent and open finances.

Invoice #232276
retroactive award
Invoice #231787
research
Invoice #231306
Today’s balance

€35,369.71 EUR

Total raised

€92,804.00 EUR

Total disbursed

€57,434.29 EUR

Estimated annual budget

€92,804.00 EUR