How this worldwide community treats plastic as a precious material

Precious Plastic, recyclers everywhere unite! Photo: AFP

What if you could make your own low-tech machine and use it in your local community to recycle plastic and turn it into a useful everyday object just by watching an online tutorial?

That's exactly what Precious Plastic is doing with workshops set up at a local, community level in order to reduce plastic waste by treating it as a durable, transformable precious resource.