[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 ...

and these open-source plastics recycling machines might just jump-start that effort. We looked at [Precious Plastic] two years back, and their open-source plans for small-scale plastic recycling ...

His solar-powered Trashpresso turns plastic waste into small tiles that can be used to build walls and floors. “These machines are a prototype of what we think the future of recycling should be ...

The machine sorts through plastics and metals and compresses them into bales A new £1m machine will help boost Swindon's recycling rate and help it become greener, a councillor has said.

One big problem stems from recycling bins typically set up beside vending machines. Different types of trash are often tossed in, contaminating the potentially reusable plastic bottles.