Upcycle Santa Fe rebrands as Plan 4 Plastic | Business

Upcycle Santa Fe founder Joseph Stodgel is rebranding his business as Plan 4 Plastic to put a firm focus on reuse of plastic and dissuade people from thinking he has a bicycle shop.

Stodgel already has brought the Plan 4 Plastic name to his Facebook page. He will rebrand the Instagram account next and then the website.

Upcycle Santa Fe, launched in 2014, implements solutions for waste plastics and other material through collecting mostly waste plastic, building things with waste plastic and education.

“Education has taken such a primary focus,” Stodgel said. “We are shifting from a collection entity to education. I’d like to get the collection back up once I deal with all of this stuff.”

He has built structures mostly with ecobricks or Ubuntu Blox supplied by other entities, but he said the best use of plastics is as an alternative insulation material.

“Right now the focus is on the website and outreach to…

Read more…