Get the plastic moving!
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Get the plastic moving!

"Get the plastic moving!" intends to transform discarded plastics into a positive impact, giving life to a new product, the skateboard. Through workshops, we will reuse about 2....

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    8% of 2 330€

    10 backers

  • 26/09/2021

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    This project was unable to raise the required funds

"Get the plastic moving!" intends to transform discarded plastics into a positive impact, giving life to a new product, the skateboard. Through workshops, we will reuse about 2.5kg of discarded plastic for each board produced.

In Portugal, around 40% of plastic waste is still sent to landfills. This proposal intends to "Put plastic on the moving!", transforming it into a positive impact, giving life to a new product, the skateboard. The project aims to develop actions that encourage environmental awareness, dialogue, multiplication of creative learning and access to new experiences.

Through workshops, it is intended to bring the public (especially children and young people) closer to the logic of the Circular Economy, raising awareness for the conscientious use of plastic and recycling. The activities involve accessible language, active participation, collaboration and co-creation, providing, in a fun way, the opportunity to participate in the production process of the pieces, reusing about 2.5 kg of discarded plastic for each board produced.

Since Lisbon is the European capital of sport for 2021, the ultimate goal is to combine the circular economy with the practice of skateboarding, encouraging participants to be more active, while developing team spirit and sharing.

About the author

Collecting is a social business that seeks to catch plastic before it reaches landfills or oceans, using it as raw material for new products, always with a collaborative and inclusive approach, co-creating products and actions that place the people as the key element of the solutions.

Focusing on this incorrect destination and the low level of plastic reuse, since Portugal annually recycles only 41.8%* of this material and the rest is sent to landfills or incineration, our goal is to talk about the misconception about this material , which many tend to dispense with, throwing it away because they consider it garbage and not a raw material. Through its reuse and economic enhancement, the proposal is to reintroduce it in the economy in a circular way, reviewing values and choices.

Our challenge is to change individual decisions thinking about the collective, through practical and participatory actions of community learning, which reuse discarded plastic and attribute economic value to this material.

The project was accelerated by Relança-te - Escola de Impacto Online (Ageas Foundation's program in partnership with Impact Hub Lisbon), which supports sustainable entrepreneurship projects, with social, environmental or economic responsibility and impact objectives adapted to the future world. Currently, the project is accelerated by Shifty Happens, a program that seeks solutions to neglected social and/or environmental challenges at a local or global level and that have an ethical and sustainable approach.

Budget and due dates

Budget:

Your help will be for the purchase of equipment and parts that enable actions with about 45 young people and the production of 15 initial skateboards.

To launch the project we need €2,330. The amount raised will be applied as follows:

Oven: €700

Equipment/Tools for the skateboards: €1150

Safety equipment for children: 265€

TOTAL: €2115

PPL commissions: €214.94

TOTAL: €2,330

 

Schedule:

The entire amount raised will be applied to the shares as soon as received. We count on having everything ready within 90 days.

Every contribution is precious, no matter how small!

  • Invest with
    10€ or more

    A big thank you!

    With this contribution you are ensuring that our project can happen. Thank you so much for being part of this achievement. All contributions are valuable.

    7 backers

  • Invest with
    20€ or more

    Acknowledgment + Report + name as a supporter in the video

    Sending a Digital Report by email, indicating the results of the action and name in the final acknowledgments of the promotional video.

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  • Invest with
    30€ or more

    I just want to help!

    A special mention as a sponsor of our project on our website. With this contribution you are supporting our project to grow, with more and more actions in different places.

    2 backers

  • Invest with
    55€ or more

    Donation of a reused plastic board to a young person

    With this contribution you are donating a board to a young participant in one of the workshops, so that he can practice the sport.

    1 backer

  • Invest with
    75€ or more

    Buying a board made from reused plastic

    Each board is unique, as it results from the reuse of plastic, with different colors and patterns. The boards can be raised in Lisbon or sent at random (postage not included), as a surprise, as the real proposal is to contribute and support the cause. Delivery dates will be combined and confirmed by email.

    Hand-delivered (see above)

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    Limited to 10 units. 10 remaining

  • Invest with
    100€ or more

    Support for a young person to participate in the workshops

    With this contribution you are enabling 1 young person to participate in a workshop where they will produce skateboards from reused plastic.

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Fri, 29/03/2024 - 08:10

26/09/2021

Campaign ended

The campaign failed to raise the total amount

Wed, 30/06/2021 - 00:21

First five backers

We've gathered the first 5 backers. Hurray!

Campaign launched

29/06/2021

10 members of the PPL community
support this campaign

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  • 7
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  • 4
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Meet the people helping this dream come true

  • Anonymous

    29/07/2021 - 16:39

  • MultiPPLicador

    29/07/2021 - 14:48

    Obrigado pela divulgação!

  • Lina Moscoso Teixeira

    17/07/2021 - 13:47

  • Bárbara João Fonseca

    17/07/2021 - 13:08

    Juntxs conseguimos :)

  • Anonymous

    02/07/2021 - 00:20

  • Anonymous

    30/06/2021 - 00:21

  • Francisca Vale Lima

    29/06/2021 - 21:30

    Projeto muito interessante! Vamos lá pôr todos a pensar no plástico e no que podemos fazer diferente pelo ambiente :)

  • Luís Barroca Monteiro

    29/06/2021 - 18:22

    Fantástico! Vamos por o plástico a andar!!!

  • Anonymous

    29/06/2021 - 15:10

  • Catarina Miguel Martins

    29/06/2021 - 14:18

    Boa! Vamos criar mais consciência sobre o plástico e fazer workshops de consciencialização!