In September 2023, Free Plastic and O, Miami installed their tenth in a series of public art works entitled Plastic Poetry. Plastic Poetry is a series of community activations that mashes up an educational workshop on the realities of recycling … Read More
Plastic Poetry 011.1 & 011.2 | Charles R. Hadley Elementary School
In September 2023, Free Plastic and O, Miami installed their eleventh and twelfth in a series of public art works entitled Plastic Poetry. Plastic Poetry is a series of community activations that blends recycling plastics, plastic pollution, beach cleanups, public … Read More
Plastic Poetry 009 | Belafonte TACOLCY Center
In September 2023, Free Plastic and O, Miami installed their ninth in a series of public art works entitled Plastic Poetry. Plastic Poetry is a series of community activations that mashes up an educational workshop on the realities of recycling … Read More
PHYTO | Thank You for the Continued Support
We want to thank our friends PHYTO for their continued support via the 1% for the Planet network. Their donations help us create new products and make a greater impact on the plastic pollution crisis. Not only does PHYTO support … Read More
Happy World Oceans Day!
Happy World Oceans Day! We here at Free Plastic love our oceans, and are doing what we can to help them by developing new ways to recycle ocean plastic! What does Free Plastic look like by the numbers? We’re so … Read More
Meet Our Serving Boards
Hundreds of pounds of scrap hardwood that was to be thrown away was gifted to us last year, and we decided to mix all these off cuts & disposable scraps with our river concepts to create serving boards. Some serving ... Read More
Learning From Our Waste
In my previous positions in both the marine & automotive industries, working with epoxy meant a TON of waste. All of the mixing sticks, spreaders, mixing tubs, gloves, etc were single use, and quickly disposed, with no option to recycle. ... Read More
Free Plastic at Apple Aventura
Last month for Earth Day, we joined O, Miami at Apple Aventura to discuss the latest in recycling. O, Miami taught us how to write Urban Haikus, and then we crafted the Earth-inspired poems using over 400 of our 5-inch ... Read More
Year 4 in Review
We can’t believe it’s been FOUR YEARS!!! And this year we have a lot to celebrate!! We started off the year with a nice surprise: Free Plastic had a writeup in South Florida Gay News. Considering our team is made … Read More
Our Cherry Table
Our newest coffee fable is made from salvaged cherry and 1kg (2.2 pounds) of unrecyclable ocean plastic farmed from South Florida beaches. Some plastics are too dangerous for us to recycle via heat, and with the strict recycling rules found ... Read More