How To Recycle Your Own Plastic And Turn It Into Something Useful!

No Escape From Plastic Pollution!

Plastic is everywhere, in the foods we eat, in the water we drink and soon there will be more plastic in our oceans than fish.
This is a disaster of our own making and we cannot wait for someone to do something, it is down to each and every one of us to make the effort to reverse the damage we have done.

I'm sure, like me, many others are trying to buy less plastic, and to re-use the plastic items we do have wherever possible, so I was delighted to discover this!



Precious Plastic have designed tools to enable anyone to build and use to recycle their plastic, with tutorials and blueprints freely available they enable you to create your own plastic recycling kit with easy to find materials!
The machines are made of different components that can be repaired, replaced, or customized.
The blueprints and tutorials for their machines will always be freely available online, for anyone to access and use.
Using basic materials, tools, and universal parts, the machines can be built all over the world!

Here Precious Plastic gives easy to follow instructions to build a shredding machine.



Here Precious Plastic show you how to build the extrusion machine. It runs continuously so, technically, if you have enough plastic and a well-streamlined process you could be recycling 24/7. With the extrusion machine, you can create filament, granulate or get creative working with moulds. This machine is also great for educational purposes as the process is very straightforward and easy to understand.

Here, they show how to build the injection machine.
The injection machine is good for making precise objects.

Finally, the compression machine. It consists of an electric kitchen oven to heat the plastic and a car jack to apply pressure to the mould. 
The process is generally slower than the other machines but it allows for bigger objects to be crafted. 
This machine can also be used to create new raw material like big sheets of plastic that can be further worked on to make new products. 
When mixing different coloured plastic, the compression machine gives a specific flake-like look to plastic that can be used to your advantage.

This needs to stop!

Please share this post and help everyone learn how to recycle plastic at home in new and creative ways.
Thanks to Precious Plastic!