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Precious Plastic (dt .: "Precious Plastic") is an open source hardware - Plastic Recycling Project. The project was started by Dave Hakkens in 2013 and is now in its fourth iteration. It relies on a series of machines and tools that grind, melt and inject recycled plastic , enabling the creation of new products from recycled plastic on a small scale. All information produced by the project, such as codes, drawings and source materials, is available online free of charge under the Creative Commons License : "Creative Commons Attribution - Share Alike International 4.0".

University cooperation

In 2018, a group called Precious Plastic Texas was founded by students from the University of Texas after they found out about activities in Thailand. In 2019, students in the introductory seminar for the Environmental Fellows Program at DePauw University in Indiana began work on a Precious Plastic project and received funding from the Joseph and Carol Danks Centers Council Fund for Multidisciplinary Projects. The project continues in a gateway seminar and three art classes, and they may add a trip to an off-campus Precious Plastic location. In Australia, students from UNSW Business School, in close cooperation with Precious Plastic, won the Big Idea competition 2019 in the category for postgraduates with their founding idea Closed Loop - a local plastic waste recycling company. Engineering students from Monash University created a portable one-meter cube recycling machine from Precious Plastic that is to be transported to events and displayed there. The students at Monash University have developed a new recycling machine based on a cube. At the Technical University of Hamburg , face protection visors , so-called protective face shields , are printed in the student workshop and by Precious Plastic with the help of 3D printers , which are required in hospitals by medical staff for COVID-19 .

Web links

https://preciousplastic.com

Individual evidence

[1] ttps://www.fastcompany.com/40486883/these-diy-machines-let-anyone-recycle-plastic-into-new-products

[2] ttps://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-tech/sustainable/precious-plastic-wants-you-build-your-own-plastics-recycling-center.htm

[3] ttps://www.zeit.de/2019/48/plastikmuell-precious-plastic-dave-hakkens

[4] ttps://www.stern.de/wirtschaft/precious-plastic--dave-hakkens-erfindet-maschine--die-das-recycling-revolutioniert-6842142.html

[5] ttps://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffkart/2020/02/12/this-open-source-precious-plastic-project-is-changing-what-waste-means-and-how-recycling-is -done / # 6d1105b2f6e8

[6] ttps://preciousplastic.com/about/open-source.html

[7] ttps://thedailytexan.com/2018/10/07/ut-seniors-launching-new-organization-fighting-against-plastic-pollution

[8] ttps://www.depauw.edu/theboulder/details/students-provide-a-local-answer-to-worldwide-plastic-pollution/

[9] ttps://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/business-law/big-idea-public-recycling

[10] ttps://www.thecourier.com.au/story/5948658/waste-plastic-becomes-a-resource-with-this-portable-recycling-machine/

[11] ttps://www.abendblatt.de/hamburg/harburg/article228832465/TU-Studentin-druckt-Schutzmasken-fuer-Madrid.html