It all started in 2014 when Dave Hakkens, then a student at the Eindhoven Design Academy, released his design for a plastic recycling machine to the world for free. The aim was to make plastic ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Dave Hakkens of the Netherlands has designed a mini recycling plant. He posts how-to videos on his YouTube page that explain how to build each machine. Blueprints and ...

More than 10 years ago, Dave Hakkens, a then-student at the Eindhoven Design Academy, released a free, replicable design for a plastic recycling machine, Euronews reported. This design was made ...

If you ask Mattia Bernini, plastic is not the problem; it’s how many plastic products are made. Bernini is Design Director at Precious Plastic — a free, open-source, plastic-recycling system based on ...

Last year the world produced nearly 311 million tons of plastic, but less than 10% of that was recycled. The truth of the matter is that most plastic ends up in the wrong places; landfills, oceans, ...

Shredded plastic can be transformed into beautiful new things. People involved in more than 400 projects around the world are using a recycling system that they downloaded for free from the internet.

While electric motors have taken the drudgery out of many tasks, human power has its advantages. [Precious Plastic Torino] has developed a human-powered plastic shredder for those times when an ...

Walk on almost any beach or look on the side of most roads and you’ll see the bottles, bags, and cast-off scraps of a polymeric alphabet soup – HDPE, PET, ABS, PP, PS. Municipal recycling programs ...

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 ...