Around 1400 tonnes were recycled by the Precious Plastic community in one year. Could open-source tech help plastic recycling finally take off? It all started in 2014 when Dave Hakkens, then a student ...

Mysuru: The Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has hit a roadblock in its initiative to install plastic water bottle recycling machines at select locations across the city due to a lack of funds.Despite ...

But what if our body could actually recycle plastic, breaking it down to keep this waste out of our landfills and oceans? [Image: courtesy Matthew Harkness] That’s a question being asked by Matthew ...

[Dave Hakkens] graduated from the Design Academy of Eindhoven and decided to try his hand at making affordable plastic recycling machines. His reasoning? “We recycle just 10% [of waste plastic],” says ...

When a young Dutch designer named Dave Hakkens released Plonebloks, a concept for a modular phone, it set the internet on fire and helped Google along the same path. The explosion of attention was an ...

Plastic water bottles can be “upcycled” into durable materials with properties equivalent to virgin polymer. Talking about going green has become a national pastime in recent years. Implementing ...

Lucas Couto, Senior Industrial Designer at EGGS Design in Norway, is focused on turning plastic pollution into innovative recycled designs. The designer has teamed up with plastic recycling company ...

Polymer binder used by California-based firm is made from discarded plastic bottles. G5 asphalt pavement binder from TechniSoil Industrial is made in part from discarded plastic bottles. Image ...

In this video, we explore signmaking using recycled HDPE plastic. Our project involves creating a two-colour sign by engraving into the first layer to reveal the second, addressing the challenge of ...