Curious what our recycled products look and feel like in real life? Visit the Makerstore in Amsterdam and check out our products on display. Currently available the Delta Stool and Cirrus flower pot. Got yourself one of these 3D printed beauties? Make sure to share us a photo of your vanPlestik product @vanPlestik on Instagram. […]
On the 4th of july at the Museon in Den Haag a very special artwork was revealed. Artist Peter Smith from KLEAN asked us if we could print the giant frame of the National Geographic logo. Peter was asked to make this artwork completely made with recycled plastic. The dolphin has been handfitted with shredded […]
We are happy to annouce that vanPlestik is one of seven selected participants for the ‘Plastic Free Ocean Accelerator’ program. This program is an initiative from World Wildlife Fund (WWF ) in collaboration with Impact Hub Amsterdam. We’re very happy to have this opportunity to work together on scaling up our impact during the next seven […]
Together with the Beach Design vanPlestik has organized ‘de Mooie Bende’( a Beautiful Mess). A series of workshops for both kids and adults. Together with the participants from the Wildemanbuurt in Amsterdam-West we’ve been inventing, designing and creating something new for the neighbourhood. The participants have learned a lot about recycling, 3Dprinting and designing. [su_quote cite=”Lonneke”]I […]
vanPlestik is verry proud to annouce that we are one of the winners of the ‘Amsterdammers, Maak je Stad!’ prize. Out of 474 applications we’re one of the 37 lucky ones! ‘Amsterdammers, Make your City!’ is an initiative of the municipality of Amsterdam. The developing program will run for over 6 months for citymakers and organisation […]
[su_qrcode data=”https://vanplestik.nl/en/2017/04/13/test-qr-code/” title=”Stool nr.1″] This is the very first object printed with the vanPlestik printer. This little stool came to life on 30th of march 2017. We used 100% recycled PS from KRAS recycling company. The PS was given to us by KRAS and is made from post industrial waste. No further information about it’s […]
We are very happy to announce that today, after designing and building the first vanPlestik 3D printer for the past months, we have made our very first 3D printed object. This small stool is the result of our very first print. Not bad at all! (IMHO) 100% recycled PS
On the 1st of March ten schools in Amsterdam will battle against each other in the Designathon School Challenge to come up with the best waste separation invention for their schools. The best three schools will win a 3D print with recycled plastic workshop with vanPlestik.
In September 2016 we were super excited to hear that we were selected for the Startup In Residence Amsterdam (SIRA) program. As one of six startups we are receiving a weekly training during 5 months were we learn a whole lot about how to grow a successful company. Furthermore the municipality of Amsterdam is actively […]
We were asked to think about an iconproject in collaboration with the Brabantse Delta who were the first in the world to produce PHA from wastewater. During this project we have learned a lot about biobased plastics like PHA.