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    Shaping a circular industrial ecosystem and supporting life-cycle thinking
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    How to save nature from plastic waste?
    We finally found a one of many ways, how to save the planet from old plastic and microplastics!
    We have NEW construction material!
    Plastic guys is a groundbreaking company in the very heart of Europe that produces panels and furniture from 100% recycled plastic. The most important thing is that people realize the value of plastic and avoid the use of single-use plastics.

    GOD panels produced by our company will always be 100% recycled and even recyclable again after their service life. These are boards that can be used in a wide range of products. Both for exterior and interior.
    Cross-border/international
    Czechia
    Belgium
    • Member State(s), Western Balkans and other countries: Germany
    • Member State(s), Western Balkans and other countries: Italy
    • Member State(s), Western Balkans and other countries: Austria
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    It addresses urban-rural linkages
    It refers to a physical transformation of the built environment (hard investment)
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    As an individual in partnership with other persons
    • First name: Ondřej
      Last name: Venclík
      Gender: Male
      Age: 25
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      Nationality: Czechia
      Address (country of permanent residence for individuals or address of the organisation)<br/>Street and number: Mokrohorksá 37
      Town: Brno
      Postal code: 64400
      Country: Czechia
      Direct Tel: +420736418445
      E-mail: spoluprace@plasticguys.cz
      Website: https://plasticguys.cz/cs/
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  • Description of the concept
    The thing that worries us most nowadays, not only in our field, is the recycling of used plastics, which does not exist. Year by year, more and more plastics, especially disposable ones, are increasing. With the advent of the current pandemic, the situation is even worse. In the end, for the most part, these plastics end up in incinerators and landfills, but in the worst case, they are always uncontrollably caused by very
    ecological burden. And this is the biggest problem that troubles our customers. another problem is that customers have their ideas, but they can't materialize those ideas.
    Until now, the only alternative was sorting used plastics or the expensive and unecological purchase of recycled plastic products from abroad. The goal for us is to build a sustainable business, with a positive response from the wider public and with a constant purchase of products.
    Since the start of sales, we have managed to increase it by fifty percent every month. another goal is the gradual expansion of the product range and awareness of the problem of handling plastics.
    Important values for us are a low carbon footprint, even with a projected 200% annual growth in production volume in the first five years and a 20% annual growth in production in the next five years.
    Plastic
    waste
    recycling
    furniture and design
    new construction material
    We turn plastic, contaminated waste into very clean and interesting high-quality furniture. We are dedicated to both completely opposite ends of the quality spectrum. The world has never seen plastic plates from which plastic gives its own texture and design!

    We want to focus on a bigger goal than just food packaging. Companies produce abnormal amounts of waste that the public has no idea about and must not know about.

    Therefore, we see this as a key issue.
    It's like hating traveling by car, but flying by plane...
    For us, the key elements are definitely these:

    Educating the public to understand that plastic is not only for one use and how precious a material it actually is. We show people its potential in a beautiful, design form that they like.
    That's why they are not only satisfied with the appearance of the product, but especially with saving the planet!

    100% recycling of plastic so that it does not end up in rivers, landfills, or incinerators, if it has the chance to serve for hundreds of years as an important and functional object. This would also reduce the demand for new oil extraction for the production of plastics.

    Turn ugly waste into designer furniture or an object of high quality and appearance. From waste to crystal!

    To operate on not zero, but have a negative carbon footprint and help the atmosphere and nature from microplastics.

    Only work locally! Only in Central Europe and Europe at most!

    Our product: GOD panels are melted from 100% volume of plastic waste from production.

    This places us exactly in the middle of the price spectrum of all available materials on the market.
    We are cheaper than stone, concrete and solid wood!
    This means that anyone from the EU who shops at IKEA can buy us today and save the planet and climate change at the same time.
    Plastic plates can be shined through and suddenly have a completely new look!

    At the same time, GOD pnaley can be reheated and bent into various shapes. A chair, stools or even a bench.

    Furniture is just how we entered the market. It is necessary to assign other functions to plastic than just furniture.

    We are dealing with the end of the production of new plastics. In the last 60 years, we already have enough of them. We have to reduce the production of new plastics and deal with the ones that are already everywhere among us. Burning or landfilling is not the solution!
    Our clients are saving the planet.
    By understanding what we can make from plastic, they suddenly stop looking at plastic as a disposable item. And they will start to live even more sustainably.

    We try to make everything as simple as possible for the customer to purchase our furniture or to arrange for the equipment of an entire cafe or restaurant project. We are still architects and we have our new building material!

    We solve people's problems with waste. And the fact that he no longer has to be ashamed of his waste, because he knows that something useful can be made from it.
    We are very happy that people start recycling just so they can make designer furniture out of their own waste. They have an even greater bond with him!
    We have already been seen at all levels in the year of our operation.

    EUROPEAN LEVEL
    These parties have supported us by purchasing products.
    We have already been seen at all levels in the year of our operation.
    At the meeting of EU politicians regarding the creative sector in Brussels, every politician had coasters made of recycled plastic. Our Czech politicians drive around with big advertising letters SOUTH MORAVIA REGION and are at every meeting. Our cafe and bistro projects are already in Germany, Italy, Austria and Slovakia. All neighboring states.

    NATIONAL LEVEL
    Creative vouchers with a subsidy for a new WEB. BUT University. provided us with a production workshop. Lawyers and accountants from the capital Prague.
    We have already implemented over 40 projects in our country alone. Whether it was tables, chairs or entire cafes or even illuminated bars!
    We are seen all the time on TV or on social media and in magazines with our work.

    REGIONAL LEVEL
    The South Moravian Innovation Center provided us with office space and an exhibition gallery.
    Here in Moravia and the city of Brno, we are spreading fast like a virus! We constantly have new collaborations with architects and furniture companies.

    LOCAL LEVEL
    Family and friends gave us love and help during the difficult beginnings of starting a business.
    Not only our friends and acquaintances but also professors from school work with our GOD panels. We supply and change different tables or outdoor bars around our office or parts and home :)
    Architecture and its study at university is a broad discipline and it helped us to look at the project from many perspectives. From design, finance and project implementation to the customers themselves.

    As students, I saw how much waste was produced only on construction sites and we were horrified!

    That's why I thought we'd make our own building material that would be environmentally friendly and must be produced from existing waste. We cannot and will not allow products to be produced that will be more expensive

    We found out how important marketing and establishing new collaborations are. How important it is to creatively increase your production capacity and not just test, but produce at a high level.
    Because new and new businesses are constantly being produced here in Europe. He tells a lot of people among himself and wants it too. The best advertisement. This means that we, as Europeans, will once again be the first to set the trend.

    But recycling in the EU will not change anything if we do not extend these rules and solutions to the whole world, especially to America, India and Australia.People not only buy affordable furniture and products, but most importantly, they really save the planet with their purchase.

    No greenwashing!
    The process is very primitive. You put the thermoplastic in the heat and it expands.
    So we just grind the plastics for better handling and put them in a large oven, where they melt to the right temperature. After that, we just take them out, press them and let them cool. GOD panel was born!
    And if they fail, or they break their product somewhere.

    So process can be easily replicated and extended to neighboring countries
    We are dealing with the end of the production of new plastics. In the last 60 years, we already have enough of them. We have to reduce the production of new plastics and deal with the ones that are already everywhere among us. Burning or landfilling is not the solution!
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