Project Introduction
My favorite flogger that we’ve made to date.
The cynical among you will see the “journal” button up top and think “This is quite obviously a store. Why does this schmuck think that I want to read his life’s story also?”
To which I’d respond “Yeah. Valid.” I hate it when recipes tell a long winded meaningless anecdote before giving you the damn recipe. The primary purpose of this website is to facilitate sales, which will in turn facilitate waste reduction efforts.
But the scope of this project is bigger than that. My lovely partner and I are working hard to take the waste our industries generate, and give them a second life. This is a big project, and at time of writing, we haven’t gotten to a point where we have anything to sell quite yet.
I know I’m tootin’ my own horn here, but I’m writing now, because I really believe that this is a very cool project. Industry won’t reduce waste if it isn’t profitable to do so, the best way to make enormous companies put less into landfills, is to find ways to make that recycling happen for free.
That’s where we come in. The goal is to make useful and durable items out of waste that is already available to us. Then hopefully, to make enough money reclaiming waste that it can be done full time!
At present we’ve made a flogger out of scrap leather and scrap wood (see the picture at the beginning of the journal entry) a strap on harness out of scrap leather, a flogger out of scrap leather and a carribeaner. Check it out:
The first iteration of strap on and flogger. They’re functional, but they still leave quite a bit to be desired.
None of these are ready for sale quite yet. They’re hard to make, or they’re ugly, or they aren’t weighted quite right, or whatever. But we’re making good progress every week!
This project is being done with a lot of help from an open source project called Precious Plastic. They’re mission is to help people recycle plastic on a micro level by providing open source information about how individual people can recycle plastic on their own or start small companies to do so.
Just as their open source project has helped us, future journal entries will outline issues that we’ve faced and the ways in which we seek to address them. Our goal is to sustain our incomes on recycling materials that wouldn’t get recycled otherwise, but our mission is to help others achieve the same.
Till Next Time—-