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 ...

People around the world are learning how to recycle plastic waste themselves, and turn it into fun and useful things. A group called Precious Plastic shares its designs for recycling machines ...

“Precious Plastic was one of the first projects where you could have small, personal solutions to bigger challenges and thereby make people feel like they could contribute to solving the issue,” ...

The shredder minces plastic into plastic flakes. Next, flakes are transferred to the injection machine where they are melted and moulded into different products like tiles, coasters and keychains ...

We imagine you’ve heard this already, but waste plastic is a problem for the environment. We wrap nearly everything we buy, eat, or drink in plastic packaging, and yet very little of it ends … ...

An award-winning student-led project at Concordia is confronting the plastic crisis head on. The Concordia Precious Plastic Project (CP3) is a multidisciplinary initiative bringing together volunteer ...

People around the world are learning how to recycle plastic waste themselves, and turn it into fun and useful things. A group called Precious Plastic shares its designs for recycling machines ...