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https://www.fastcompany.com/40554087/2018-world-changing-ideas-awards-winners-advertising-humanium-metal-initiative


 * "The Humanium Metal Initiative" is a pro bono campaign by Swedish agencies Great Works and Akestam Holst
 * Winner of advertising category of Fast Company's 2018 World Changing Ideas Award. Link to award: https://www.fastcompany.com/40532898/2018-world-changing-ideas-awards-winners
 * They call it the "world's most valuable metal" -- Johan Pihl, creative director at Great Works
 * Gun metal is melted down
 * IM Swedish Development Partner is a non-profit agency
 * All weapon repurposing is publicly traceable
 * Proceeds go back local organizations
 * Celebrity endorsements: Dalai Lama, Hans Blix, Desmond Tutu
 * Launched in El Salvador. Expanded to Guatemala.  As of 2018, plans to expand to Honduras and Columbia.
 * People going to make watches, buttons, candle holders.
 * Considering 3D printing applications
 * Plan to make little things first, and then consider moving on to large projets
 * As of mid-2018, had used nearly 5,000 weapons to make 3 tons, with $3 million in ordes
 * Support from Swedish Foreign Ministry

External link to commercial?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewelinaochab/2019/02/01/humanium-metal-showing-a-better-use-for-illegal-weapons/#7e2dd4c6324d


 * Project is called "Humanium Metal"
 * Set up by Individuell Människohjälp (IM) Swedish Development Partner
 * Idea by Peter Brune, Senior Adviser for IM, alumnus of UN and arms control initiatives in Central America
 * There is illegal weapons trade all over the world.
 * It happens mostly in areas of conflict and organized crime.
 * "Converts illegal firearms seized by authorities into a recycled metal"
 * Related to SDG 16: "peace, justice, and strong institutions"
 * First introduced in El Salvador, sponsored by the government there
 * Metal is sent to commercial suppliers, designers, and artists around the world
 * Partnered with Non-Violence Foundation
 * Project to remake Reutersward's "Non violence" sculpture 150 replicas. This sculpture project endorsed by Dalai Lama, and signed the first one to be auctioned at Sotheby's

https://www.fastcompany.com/90287417/how-watches-made-of-seized-guns-will-help-rebuild-el-salvadors-economy


 * First weapons destruction in El Salvador Nov 2016, producing one ton
 * Made more in Novebmer 2017 from 1,825 firearms
 * People making earbubs and watches by Triwa
 * Triwa creative director Ludvig Scheja says "we hope this project has a significant impact in educating people about the effects of gun violence through the support of local anti-violence organization"

https://www.forbes.com/sites/elizabethmacbride/2018/07/16/from-sweden-with-style-entrepreneurs-produce-humanium-watches-from-illegal-guns/#368e7c4a920e


 * 95% iron
 * Watches sell for $279, starting in 2018.
 * Triwa is in Stockholm
 * First you saw the gun apart, then you melt it down.
 * Melted 10,000 guns by 2018
 * $6.60 per ounce
 * TRIWA watches produced via 3D printing
 * Funded through Kickstarter campaign
 * Guns melted in El Salvador. Turned into ingots there.  Then sent to Sweden.  Then turned into powder
 * First production run is supposed to have 5,000 - 10,000 watches.

https://adage.com/article/agency-news/humanium-metal-initiative-takes-innovation-grand-prix/309492


 * Wins Cannes Lions Innovative Grand Prize in 2017
 * President of jury Susan Lyne, president and managing partner of BBG Ventures, said, "We believed [Humanium] showed innovation at every stage, from concept to procurement to the supply chain to the business model to the partnerships"

https://www.fastcompany.com/90290436/theyre-recreating-this-classic-anti-gun-violence-sculpture-with-metal-from-melted-down-guns


 * The sculpture is of a .357 magnum tied in a knot
 * Non-Violence Project Foundation
 * 150 small scale replicas that you can hold in your hand
 * Replica signed by Dalai Lama to be auctioned at Sotheby's
 * Made into spinning tops and wrist bangles

https://apnews.com/1d1737b49661461fb930290362b9afa4/Program-seeks-to-use-seized-guns-for-good-in-El-Salvador


 * Goal is to remove illegal guns from circulation and make metal, and then sell it, with the proceeds to benefit the places where the guns were taken from.
 * Much of the metal in the central american guns comes from United States
 * Local authorities seize the weapons. And the local organization melts them down.  The non-profit just does the marketing and certifying, and routes the revenue.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/24/business/gun-buyback-recycling-melt.html?auth=login-email&login=email


 * Steel mills were already doing this. Can turn the guns into high-grade steel, to be used in mining, construction, energy
 * Such as a mill in St. Paul run by Gerdau Long Steel North America