[3dsnano]

their work to date seems like 100K well spent on trying something very few other people would even attempt, no less take it as far as they did.

i'm not sure if people here comprehend how much work it is to do and sustain something like this for almost a decade. a lot of the work is niche community-building, it's a hard slog fought one workshop at a time. its like herding idealistic cats, not easy. i will always appreciate those who hold the line and choose to die on weird hills like this.

while i commend them on their work to date, it's clear that this is a hard problem to solve within our current socio-economic environment. after all, plastic is around us, within us, and inevitably part of us now. as humans we need to stop burying it and confront what we are doing.

[zevon]

This. No matter your stance on economic base model or plastic and recycling in general the decade-long effort of Previous Plastic is very commendable, was a lot of hard work and produced quite a bit of actual output. That doesn't warrant the amount of negativity in this thread, IMO.

[nchmy]

They've DEFINITELY spent at least a million euros since the start.

The fact that no one has any accurate figures is just one of many issues with this project and plea for help.