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 ...

Recycling initiative Precious Plastic's open-source machines are being used to recycle plastic and turn it into face shields, respirator masks and hands-free door handles to fight coronavirus.

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 ...

The last ten years have seen a near-universal sea change in attitudes toward plastic. Once considered the revolutionary “material of a thousand uses”, now designers and scientists alike are scrambling ...

India-based Steer World is offering what it calls a first-of-its-kind method to recycle crosslinked polyethylene (PEX) plastic using its custom Omega Twin-Screw Extrusion Technology. PEX is used in ...

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 ...

A three-year project has helped set out a blueprint for planned nationwide collections of flexible plastic in the UK. The FlexCollect research project, funded by the Flexible Plastic Fund, saw more ...

ExxonMobil has put on hold a planned €100m ($118.4m) investment into plastic recycling facilities in Europe due to proposed EU regulations, reported Reuters. The investment was earmarked for two ...

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 ...