RP_Domes

Our mission is to provide a single unit factory line in a container unit, for the creation of easy-to-hire jobs in impoverished areas, and create a new consumer market of inhabitable geodesic domes created by recycled plastics. Our aim is to freely distribute these plans and set up the first systems in cooperation of locals in the areas with the most concentration of plastic landfills. By taking the plastics and using our open-source, mainly automated container unit we can create a true value to the increasing amount of recycled plastics and reduce the number of microplastics pouring into our environment and habitat. With a temperature-controlled heating system, our unit pours the plastics into molds and press them into provided molds to make a weather-resistant dome structure.

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The current blueprint of plastic recycling has been repeated since its original inception in 1972, yet only in the last decade has there been any serious rethinking in dealing with the global issues with this model. With only 9% of all plastic being recycled and a projected 12 billion metric tons of plastic in landfills by 2050, we aim to give used plastics a purpose and a value. As with many other materials, plastic can tend to flow along a linear path: "Make, Use, Dispose." The result: big amounts of plastic end up either buried in landfills or polluting oceans. But what if we approached used plastic as a resource instead of treating it as waste to be disposed of? We can now develop a more sustainable, circular model where plastic is recovered and reused through our unit that can be used as a new plastic-based building material.

Greg Huntley had always been equipped with a mind of productivity and resourcefulness, as well as with the idea of a geodesic dome strong enough to withstand the extreme forces of nature. In their youth, he and his brother built one out of wood that could effortlessly hold them and their friends. Eventually, Greg brings to the Pacific Northwest a thriving auto repair business, which would later afford him the leisure to continue pursuing his original ventures – creating an efficient means of producing homes that could stand anything.

Why continue with the dome? After witnessing the terror and destruction that cyclones in Fiji have caused, leaving families devastated and struggling to survive, as well as the growing plastic waste build-up, it was then that a light bulb lit up for Greg – there had to be a way to help people and the environment.

Here we are at the brink of what could change all of our lives –

RPDomes.

Geodesic shelters have been built all around the world in different climates and temperatures and still, they have proven to be the most efficient human shelter one can find. More specifically, the dome is energy efficient for many reasons: Its decreased surface area requires fewer building materials. With this, the triangular structure is easily produced in simple molds and can be recreated easily. By simply using recycled materials and sharing our process of taking the basic recycled plastic material and getting a usable building material as the end result, we hope to give shelter and entrepreneurial opportunities to impoverished areas.

recycled plastics

A rethinking of plastics

Recycled Plastic Domes

Our mission is to provide a single unit factory line in a container unit, for the creation of easy-to-hire jobs in impoverished areas, and create a new consumer market of inhabitable geodesic domes created by recycled plastics.

Mission statement

The project

Our start

Why base it around Geodesic Domes?

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Here's a few ways you can contribute to Recycled
Plastic domes.

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RECYCLE, REUSE AND REDUCE

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"businesses and plastics are expendable; the people AND THEIR environments
Are not."

Greg Huntley

the process