There is still a long way to go but Precious Plastics Plymouth and Tavistock CIC are moving to  a new premises this year. We won’t have to go far, just over the road on Union Street into a building formerly known as C103.

Club 103, located on Union Street in Plymouth, has an interesting history. Over the years, it has gone by various names, including JFKs, the Beer Keller, Avis’s, and Tiff’s. For a decade, it stood as a big, grey, and very derelict building until September 2022 when Nudge Community Builders acquired it. Their mission is to revitalise local buildings and spaces along Union Street, bringing them back to life for community use and enjoyment.

We’re looking at creating a 32 square metre workshop space on the far left of the building. The first step was to remove the bar that was there. We managed to salvage quite a bit of the timber (indeed, we don’t solely recycle plastics) to be used again further down the line.

We are also collecting all sorts of plastics from the building. Amongst many broken buckets, and old dusty plastic beer cups there are literally hundreds of metres of ‘beerlines’, made from HDPE,  that we hope to shred down and press into sheets. Those sheets we can incorporate back into the building. How circular is that!!! It could be flooring or a partition wall. There is a group of architecture students from Plymouth University who have shown some interest in looking at how this could work for a masters project they are working on. A local architecture firm studioskein.co.uk has also shown an interest in this concept. Watch this space.