Inside a cramped, 40-foot container office back in 2021, Paul Lee and his team started melting bottle caps in an oven – driven purely by curiosity. Despite being unconventional and a little bit hazardous, the team was trying to discover what else plastic waste could do.
That raw, makeshift energy surrounded by heaps of collected bottle caps and a jumble of improvised machinery went on to give birth to Plastify, a homegrown recycling initiative that is carving out its own niche in Singapore’s sustainability landscape.
Armed with do-it-yourself machines and a community-driven approach, Plastify is not just recycling plastic, but reshaping the way people think about it.