Precious Plastic: Machines for Recycling Plastic at Home

Machines for recycling, and avoiding waste, plastic at home. The open-source project is called Precious Plastic, and was designed by Dutch designer Dave Hakkens: a series of machines which can be built using the do-it-yourself method, with relatively inexpensive and manual materials. These machines allow you to:

• to grind plastic (shredder)
• extrude it in filaments or pellets
• shape it by molding or compressing into new objects (plates, vases, creative shapes)

The project Precious Plastic It provides free projects and online instructions, so anyone can build their own plastic recycling machine at home or in their workshop.

The shredder cuts plastic items into small fragments, ready to be transformed into new items by other machines. The cost is €1.100. 

Image credits: Facebook/Precious Plastic Community

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