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Subscription bonus · Hack Your Way 2026 · Talk · 15 min

Od pizza pece k výrobní lince: Jak hacknout cirkulární byznys a nečekat na dokonalost

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Talk language: Czech · Subtitles: CZ · DE · EN · PL

What the talk is about

Today the yellow recycling bin mostly yields PET bottles and caps; the rest of the plastic ends up in landfills and incinerators. Ondřej Venclík is an architect and co-founder of Plastic Guys from Brno, which presses waste plastic into boards and turns them into furniture. He started with 30,000 crowns and by crushing plastic with a hammer in a rented garage space.

You'll learn how to test a physical product on a minimal budget, why the first orders came because Plastic Guys kept talking about their product, and what six years of building the company took, from pizza ovens to a production line Ondřej calls the largest in the world. In the Q&A he talks about bottle deposits in Slovakia and how much sorted plastic actually gets recycled.

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