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 ...

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 ...

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.

VALPARAISO — Tubes filled with multicolored plastic pellets fill the shelf in Adam Johnson's kitchen. A large motor is perched on a table by the back door and, across from it, sits a peculiar metal ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

[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 ...

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 ...

The SOTOP Recycling team, consisting of Manuel Maeder, Benjamin Krause, and Nadina Maeder, have developed an innovative automated injection molding machine that uses waste plastic to create new ...

Talks aimed at a global treaty to cut plastic pollution fizzled in Geneva this week, with no agreement to meaningfully reduce the harms to human health and the environment that come with the millions ...