It is My Pleasure to Introduce: LoopLAB - A Mobile Recycling Experience

I bought a first set of micro-recycling equipment that was an utter disaster - broken, late, sold by a bully - I had to problem solve, find cost savings, learn how to import, but made progress in fits and starts. I was never really clear what the path forward was but I kept to it, focusing on the next figure-outable problem. I had an absolute blast doing it. 

When the time finally came to crack open my first successful injection mold and see plastic transformed... it started to dawn on me that the experience of micro-ecycling in itself was exciting. 

When I took my stories, photos,  and vision to the community, and shared about what I was doing - that's when thoughts and ideas knit together enough that I could see there was desire, demand, opportunity to find a way of packaging up the experience into something…

I had this wild idea, I made a plan, I tested it, I iterated it, I've done that a few times now. There now exists a mobile recycling studio. It’s visited groups across three BC towns, and hosted students from Grade 3 all the way to Grade 12, and their keen teachers too. We’ve made countless combs and buttons. 

LoopLAB is here - all prettied up and polished. Ready to be introduced to the world. 

What is LoopLAB?

 A trailer, fitted out as a working micro-recycling studio, that pulls up to a school or community hall and lets people take part in transforming plastic waste into new, beautiful things. LoopLAB tackles plastic waste that would otherwise head to landfill - waste participants can collect and transform themselves, if they want to. A material transformation they can see happen and take a piece of home. It’s typically a 3-hour experience, but we adjust it to the groups that we’re visiting.

You can learn more about the programming on our website: About LoopLAB. 

Where You Might Come In

Three doors, depending on where you sit:

• If you fund or sponsor community programming - a credit union, a regional business, a foundation, an ESG-minded organization - this is the moment to become one of the first names behind a program that's already proven it can travel, adapt, and land with kids across this region. [Become a sponsor →]
• If you deliver programming to youth - a school, a rec centre, a summer camp, a community organization - LoopLAB is ready to book.  [Book LoopLAB →]
• If you're neither, but you know someone who might be - this is where your network does more than you'd think. A warm introduction, where someone you know vouches for what I'm doing before I ever show up in their inbox, gets a far better response than a cold email from me ever will. If a name comes to mind - someone who might want to book a session, explore sponsorship, or just hear more about what Delve is doing - a quick email introduction is one of the most useful things you can do for us.

I'd rather have this conversation directly than let a webpage do all the talking. If any of these doors sound like yours, reach out - I'll walk you through what a session, a sponsorship, or an introduction looks like. Send me an email: emma@delverecycled.ca