Hello Coloradoans!
The Colorado Department of Public Health and the Environment is giving out help and grant money to recycle plastic. I have put in a letter of intent to the CDPHE for help through NextStep a incubator program. My letter is basically to implement PPV4 as a Maker-Production-Space. The Maker side of things is PP as it exists now with an experiential business, technology, science, and math curriculum added. The Maker-Space is a community asset where classes can be taught, youth and other community groups can come together to recycle and make stuff. I figure that many communities could run a crowd funding campaign to fund the Maker-Space. The Production-Space is a business-to-business that sells small scale industrial equipment to recycle’s, machine shops, and small scale production shops. Center piece of this equipment is a precision 5 axis CNC mill that would cost around $15k to build. This mill is able to crank out all parts needed to build the rest of the equipment and to make precision molds. I currently have some customers interested in purchasing this machine for around $35k. Finally the Production-Space is a recycler-manufacturer-distributer of Snploc, a patent pending plumbing fitting. It of course can manufacture and distribute any manor of injected plastic item.
There is another grant due on March 1 that I am applying for. Any Coloradoans want to get involved?