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Cut out shapes out of plastic sheets with a CNC

In this how to, I will show you our process to cut HDPE Sheets using a X-Carve CNC. Here is the full video in spanish with subtitles https://www.yout...

Medium

< 5 hours
232
Wall Peg mould

Wall Peg mould

By

el-tornillo-taller

Here you will find the 3D model and blueprints to create the wall peg mold!

Easy

1-2 weeks
394 28
Make an adaptable sorting system

Make a sorting system that can adapt! if you have more plastic from one type just move the tabs to suit your needs!

Easy

< 1 week
386 24
El Tornillo Motor Injection Machine

This injection machine runs with a motor to save some labor and output more pressure to make more detailed products.

Hard

3-4 weeks
444 346
How to build mini press

Tutorial how to build mini press for compression moulding. For making this simple machine you need welding machine, access to laser cutting machine, d...

Medium

1-2 weeks
611 113
SKATE RAILS: how 2 make / use recycled skate rails

Deck rails have been used by skateboarders since the 80’s to (1) help boards slide better on handrails, coping, curbs, etc., and (2) to protect board ...

Easy

< 1 hour
261
Collect more of one Plastic Type!

Want to collect more of a certain type of plastic for a specific project? Find out how we do it here 🙂

Easy

< 1 hour
483
Easily (hands-free) connect moulds to the injector

Screw-on moulds, clamping beds and other methods such as car jacks take time and more effort with your hands to connect moulds to the injector. This m...

Easy

< 1 hour
311
Make plaster moulds for large products

Here, we outline the process of making and using plaster moulds. It’s a great low tech way of making larger, more complex products.

Medium

< 1 week
486
Boards made from marine litter

Creation and manufacture of boards or panels using as raw material recycled polypropylene plastic and fishing nets recovered by fishermen from the coa...

Medium

< 1 week
305
Make a stool with upcycled PETG 3D print waste

In this How-To we'll teach you how to transform 3D print waste in design objects, using a shredder, a sheetpress and a CNC

Medium

< 1 day
310
Make a simple & efficient 500mm x 300 mm sheet

This is Zero Plastics Australia's Large craft sheet design, In our opinion a must need for any workspace. MATERIALS NEEDED: Sheet press 800grams gran...

Medium

< 5 hours
704
Collecting plastic in Arugam Bay, Sri Lanka

Here we outline how we created an intervention into a booming tourist destination. As tourism related waste production diminished collection from the ...

Hard

1+ months
299
Dry materials for higher quality products

When you want to make products using more advanced Materials (e.g. industrial waste), drying your granulate is a necessary step. We will show you how...

Easy

< 1 hour
634
Make a dog feeder

A dog feeder is like a box that allows your pet to eat at a comfortable height. In this case, I use a compression method to create plastic sheets

Medium

< 5 hours
286
NPS_Air press injector-v1

Since 2016, NoPlasticSunday has been researching and developing machinery and equipment for plastic recycling using Precious Plastic in Korea. In Apri...

Hard

1+ months
484 83
Polygonal mould for sheet press

Plastic sheets made with sheet press don't need to be square. Here we are showing you how to create octagonal mould to create octagonal plastic sheet...

Medium

< 1 day
462 13
Make a decorative plaster mould (soft plastics)

Learn how to make a decorative plaster mould to use for soft plastics. There are two parts to this process. Stay tuned to learn how to work with plast...

Easy

< 5 hours
246
Make an automated injection molding machine

This how-to contains information on how we built a low-cost, automated injection molding machine. Unfortunately the folder is way to big for uploading...

Hard

1+ months
574 96
Make your shelf

Learn to build shelves or small furniture using the extruder and the injection machine.

Medium

< 1 day
278
Let's Make Rope from Single-Use Plastic Bags!

Let's make plastic rope! With a bit of patience -- and some handmade passion -- you can create colorful rope from single-use plastic bags.

Easy

< 1 week
434 78
Make buttons from Ocean Rope

As a coastal Precious Plastic workshop it's not a surprise to us that some of our prototyping focuses on plastics collected on Norfolk beach cleans. O...

Medium

< 1 hour
503
Interconnecting Zephyr Block Mould

Here we'll show you how to make our Zephyr Block, designed in Melbourne, Australia! Interlocking to create all sorts of structures while making use of...

Medium

< 5 hours
626 23
Necologica Key Hanger

It is an ideal key holder to use with carabiners. At its ends you can hang glasses, keys, chinstraps. It is attached to the wall with screws. We start...

Medium

< 5 hours
245 14
Low cost stool using cake mould

In this how to we want to share with you how to prepare a stool with a low cost mould. It is a simple cake tin instead of an engineered mould that wor...

Easy

< 5 hours
727
Work with HDPE and make a recycled pen

This How-to aims to be the ultimate guide to HDPE and then teach you how to make a recycled pen out of it. The recycled plastic pen is a nifty writin...

Medium

< 5 hours
288
Hands-Free Door Opener Mould

With this How-to you can make your mould to inject a "hands free" door handle - to help stop the spread of COVID-19!

Hard

< 1 week
195 6
Surf Fins Mould

Surf Fins Mould

By

preciosplasticvalencia

Preciós Plàstic València will show you a simple technique to make a mould for producing recycled surf fins. This include how to prepare the 2D/3D mod...

Medium

< 1 week
171 8
Make a bowl with kitchen molds

Making a bowl just squeezing the melted plastic in kitchen molds to get objects like vase, fruit bowl or organizer.

Easy

< 1 hour
193
Heat Shield for Injection and Extrusion Machines

Increase the safety and appearance of your injection and extrusion machine

Medium

< 5 hours
219
Create a Sports Medal with Clear Acrilic Inlay

Create stylish injection molded medals with engraved acrylic inlays. In our case we used PP for the plastic and 3mm clear acrylic off-cuts.

Medium

< 5 hours
329
Make great beam patterns!

People ask me occasionally how to get beautiful patterns in the beams and the funny thing is that zero technical tricks are used to make that happen! ...

Easy

< 1 hour
726
Bend with the Sheetpress

We have used the sheetpress as a tool for bending plastic sheets, solid surface materials or even extruded beams. The process is quite simple but migh...

Medium

< 5 hours
674
Make christmas ornaments from upcycled bottle caps

Turn your plastic waste into some cute Christmas Ornaments that you can use for decoration or to hang on your gifts. Let`s make Christmas less trashy!...

Easy

< 5 hours
334
Run a workshop on an event

A crucial part of working towards reducing plastic pollution is to show people the process offline! The following introduction gives you a quick overv...

Medium

1-2 weeks
225
Recycle plastic waste into 3d printing filament

In this how to we show you how you can recycle plastic waste into 3d printing filament. There are some things to watch out for and different machines ...

Easy

< 5 hours
1289
Make a Cyclette Shredder

In this step-by-step guide, we'll walk you through the process of building your very own plastic shredder powered by a bicycle. The cyclette shredder...

Medium

< 1 day
1373 103
Automated Sheet Press

Here we describe some of the adaptations we made to the sheetpress. It is a step towards an automated version. The main goal was to adapt the sheetpre...

Medium

1+ months
417
Desktop hand table extruder

Desktop extruder for home use. It has a socket for fastening with clamps to the table. Transparent case walls allow you to see the components. Has a s...

Hard

1+ months
839 77
Make a Squat Stool

I am a flat pack design utility add on to existing toilets using english WC's to heal correcting the posture which improves the internal architecture ...

Easy

< 1 hour
309 30
Make Alphabet Magnets from PLA Scraps

In this “How To” you will be making Alphabet magnets out of PLA scraps from 3D prints. This process will require the use of an oven. This process will...

Easy

< 5 hours
375
Make an under glass coaster

This How-to explains how to create a beautiful under glass coaster from a HDPE sheet (20mm).

Easy

< 5 hours
298
XL Long bed 3D-printer conversion

This how-to will show how to fit a longer bed on any flashable 3D-printer. We used the long bed ourselves to print windturbine blades.

Hard

< 1 week
408
Phonecase mould from a resin printer

This guide provides instructions on how to design and print a phone cover mould using a resin printer. You will see the steps involved in creating a p...

Hard

< 1 week
431 20
No Touch Tool with 3D printed mould

Create a tool for interacting with high contact areas such as door handles, pin pads, and light switches so your hands don't have to... helping preven...

Medium

< 1 week
460 28
Make a recycling bin

Making a plastic recycling bin with recycled plastic panels. This is an easier method with standard aluminum tubes.

Medium

< 1 week
148
Become an Authorized Dealer

The Patent Pending "Kwik BagIt Closed-Loop Rewards Recycling System" is proprietary and requires a Non-Disclosure to be signed before all details can...

Medium

1-2 weeks
389 69
Human powered shredder

Human powered shredder

By

javier-singular-mars-ltd

The Precious Plastic machines are open source, which means you can adapt it to your requirements. So if you don't have or don't want to use a motor, t...

Medium

< 1 week
1683 327
How to make the perfect recycled sheet

How we make our sheets from our studio in Costa Rica.

Medium

< 5 hours
760
Make a climbing brush

Make a climbing brush by kneading plastic dough and woodworking skills, to create a unique pattern. No shredder / other Precious Plastic is needed, ...

Medium

< 1 week
741
Sheetpress v4 -Fiction Factory version

We have build the sheetpress system with some upgrades which we believe are worth sharing! In short: - Shared our labour hours for realistic price es...

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1+ months
602 180
Make a Pee Pee Urinal

I am a flat pack design utility add on to the streets. The urinal is a quick solution to the need of urinal at parks and streets spots that has become...

Medium

< 5 hours
194 7
Weld plastic professionally

Here we show you the process of plastic welding and a variety of applications using a heatgun (lowtech) and a professional plastic welding gun.

Medium

< 1 day
244
Creating Beams out of HDPE plastic bags

In this guide, I will walk you through the steps to make HDPE plastic bags into beams. This process is also done without fancy machinery such as a shr...

Medium

< 5 hours
207
Tips & Tricks for furniture development.

Having a smooth and shiny finish is what we all look for. Our goal should be to make recycled plastics look precious so that they can be seen as an at...

Medium

< 1 week
649
How to create sheets with filament spools

While 3D printing itself may not generate waste, one of the by-products of production are the spools. After years of accumulating spools, we've succes...

Medium

< 5 hours
21 1
Design an injection mould

An experience review designing a broom hanger mold: These are some steps to design a mold for the injection machine.

Medium

< 1 week
528 53
Build a 'Flipflopi' boat

The Flipflopi is a sailing boat made from 100% recycled plastic and flip-flops collected from the streets and beaches in Kenya. Here we want to shar...

Very Hard

1+ months
207 4
Faceshield with extrusion die and A4 clear sheet

We make a face shield from basic elements and the extrusion machine. Face shields are critically lacking in many countries affected by COVID-19. You n...

Medium

< 1 week
127
Precious Plastic Font

Modified precious plastic font including all the accents, special letters (ñ, ç, ó, ò, ô, ö,...) initially thought for spanish speaking countries but ...

Easy

< 1 hour
403 98
Storage of shredded plastic

There are various options for how to store shredded plastic. If you have large volumes of material, then most likely you will be suitable for industri...

Easy

< 1 week
258
Broom hanger mould

Broom hanger mould

By

el-tornillo-taller

A clamp to hang brooms and mops in the wall. Here are the steps to make its mold for the injection machine.

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< 1 week
199 15
Log splitter injector upgrade

Need a little more power, or just feeling lazy? We've upgraded our PP injection mould machine using a 5T log splitter - this has made a world of diffe...

Medium

< 1 week
448 114
Make a ruler mould with Inkscape

Educational resources are not equally distributed across the world so you might as well recycle plastic and make products that are useful tools for le...

Easy

< 1 week
364 41
Build easy-to-wash chicken coop from bottle caps

Recycled plastic sheets are an excellent choice for creating chicken coops, as they are easy to clean and less likely to harbor parasites such as poul...

Hard

3-4 weeks
296 6
Create a Perforated Board

This method uses a heat press machine and an aluminum mold to make plastic board, which is then formed into perforated board.

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< 1 day
446
Create a bench with 2x4 beams

This how-to will showcase how to create a bench using 2x4 extruded beams. Once complete, your bench will consist of over 80 pounds of plastic waste!

Medium

< 1 week
694
Add interchangable patterns to injection moulds

Using lasercut, cnc milled or handmade plates you can add interchangable text or patterns to injection mould products. Add plastic types or logo's to ...

Medium

< 1 week
257
Stamp products fast. Without heating

We will show you how you can stamp the products you made in a fast efficient way. The main benefit is that it doesn’t require heating so you have no h...

Easy

< 1 week
570
Make beam jewelry / key rings

This how to explain the simple process of polishing a piece of PS BEAMS to a shining and beautiful jewelry or key ring! You will need for this a machi...

Easy

< 1 week
363
Make the ‘Plástico Fantástico’ Recycling Bicycle Shredder

The adapted bicycle shredder combines the power of shredding with the joy of cycling so you can collect and shred plastic ready for moulding as you tr...

Hard

1+ months
606 86
Make your own laptop stand

Introducing our eco-friendly laptop stand, crafted from recycled plastic sheets. This innovative laptop stand is designed with ergonomics in mind, off...

Easy

< 5 hours
190 11
Waist bag from Plastic Bags

Waist bag from Plastic Bags

By

precious-plastic-estonia

Here you will find step by step overview of the process of making a custom fashionable fanny pack / waist bag by fusing plastic bags and a bit of sewi...

Medium

< 1 week
332 41
Joost Arbor Press

Joost's Arbor Press is a machine based on the original design of the Injection machine made by Precious Plastic (https://community.preciousplastic.com...

Medium

1-2 weeks
861 131
Self-compressing oven mould for making sheets

This Tutorial is about making sheets with a self-compressing mould and a kitchen oven. The approach has a very low invest and the possibility to make...

Medium

< 5 hours
267
Injection Machine Automatic Connection Upgrade

This How-To will show you how to upgrade your injection machine and molds to make your injection process faster, safer, and more efficient! This trick...

Easy

< 5 hours
166
Solar Plastic Injection

Today volks.eco and PlastOK are proud to share with you a solution to inject some precious plastic parts using only solar and human power. We believe ...

Medium

< 1 week
561
Reduce micro-plastic & dust when shredding

Minimise micro-plastic and dust with this simple shredder upgrade! This simple hack also helps when it comes time to clean your shredder for colour or...

Easy

< 1 week
412
Bicycle Shredder V2

Bicycle Shredder V2

By

kunststoffschmiede

In this how-to we’re giving you an overview about the construction of our bicycle shredder. One and a half years ago we made the first video about how...

Very Hard

3-4 weeks
574 95
Make clock from recycled plastic

Making clock is not difficult and you are able to recycle about 300g per clock in less than 2 hours. With creative design can be clock nice present fo...

Easy

< 5 hours
288 35
Wedoo automatic baler machine

Specification: Work Area 500x500x500mm Pressure 100 Bar Max Hydraulic Bore 60mm Dynamo 5,5 HP 3 Phase Frame H-Beam 100 Weight Per Ball 40-70kg Wedoo...

Hard

3-4 weeks
541 52
Build your own filament cooling system

In this how to we will show you how you can assemble your JARVIS Airpath cooling system in 6 easy steps In tis folder you will find: 1. Airpath parts...

Easy

< 1 hour
433 43
Make a Face Shield with a PET bottle

There is a global shortage of protective equipment, not even the people are currently keeping our society running. But everyone with a 3D-Printer can ...

Easy

< 1 week
123 3
Lampshade from Recycled Bottle Caps

We will show you how to bend a recycled plastic sheet from the sheet press without heat or mold. This technique is inspired by a woodworking techniqu...

Medium

< 1 day
577 25
Bike Pedals & Grips Mould

In this How-To I describe how I made the mold. Injecting the pedal is fast but making the mold takes time. I suggest you to mill the mold if you have...

Medium

< 1 day
226 13
Make Blueprints in FreeCAD

Whether you're making moulds, building machines or other work making Blueprints is a key tool to communicate your ideas to builders, colleagues and ma...

Easy

< 1 week
662 30
Multishape beads mould

Multishape beads mould

By

precious-plastic-bangkok

A mini beads mould to create various shapes at the same time! Can be used for any kind of jewellery creations. Here are the steps to make one!

Medium

< 1 hour
755 91
Make a

The Camicleta is a learning bike that does not have pedals, recommended for children between 18 months and 5 years old. Materials: - 2 sheets of 35 ...

Medium

< 5 hours
194 2
Host an Educational Carnival Game Booth

For many years, our charity organization has been taking part in local Expos, Events, and Faires using a "Carnival Game Booth" concept, rather than tr...

Easy

< 1 day
128
Make a face shield (without mould)

We use the extruder to make the structure of a protective mask, without molds. For this, three strips of 55 Cm, ​​40 Cm and 28 Cm are made. For the pr...

Easy

< 1 week
117 2
Modular Interconnecting Formwork

This tutorial will explain, in general terms, how to use recycled plastic bricks to build a formwork for construction with concrete. Formwork function...

Very Hard

< 1 week
779 32
Injection Machine Automatic Connection Upgrade!

This How-To will show you how to upgrade your injection machine and molds to make your injection process faster, safer, and more efficient! This trick...

Medium

< 5 hours
235
Create a shut off for the beam mould

Making a shut off for the beam mould to prevent plastic flowing out after disconnecting from the extrusion machine.

Medium

< 1 hour
465
Make notepad covers & springs

How to make small sheets and springs to assemble a notepad

Easy

< 1 hour
275
Handling molds easily

In this tutorial, we will explain how to facilitate the handling of the molds, using a winch to pull them. This modification, relatively simple to car...

Medium

< 1 week
286
Plate mould

Plate mould

By

plaatjesmakers

In this awsome "How To" you will make an aluminium mould for injecting a plate (3mm thickness) from recycled plastic. Can be used for serving dry foo...

Medium

1-2 weeks
285 43
Design moulds for sunglasses

At Esfèrica we’ve been working to understand how to uphold the value of waste plastics for the past 5 years. Today, our project FOS Barcelona offers e...

Hard

3-4 weeks
336
Products made from marine litter

Manufacture of two specific products from recycled polypropylene plastic and fishing nets recovered by fishermen from the coast of Spain. Learn more ...

Medium

< 1 week
370
Build a Fishing Canoe

YAP YAP! At the Flipflopi Project we piloted a first of its kind heritage boat building course, using waste plastic as the major construction material...

Hard

1+ months
301
Create a lamp with translucent HDPE

Hello, we created a little lamp in order to explore the properties of translucent HDPE. By carefully sorting shredded samples of transparent and colou...

Medium

< 5 hours
534 22
Polygonal mould for sheetpress

Plastic sheets made with sheet press don't need to be square. Here we are showing you how to create octagonal mould to create octagonal plastic sheet...

Medium

< 1 day
286 20
Creation of HDEP sheet with just one plate

Making a hdep sheet can become more complicated as the project progresses, due to the unforeseen events that can occur when handling the plastic in on...

Medium

< 1 week
628
Coaster from coffee waste

This exponential coffee craze has led us to a staggering amount of coffee ground that is just wasted. Here is how you can turn that waste into somethi...

Easy

< 1 week
576
Laser cut stainless steel hopper

This how-to explains how to easily create a hopper for the 2.1 shredder, using laser cut stainless sheet. Since most shredders requires laser cut par...

Medium

< 1 day
152 29
Make A4 size clipboard

Make original clipboard from recycled plastic material. Board size is 315x230 mm thickness 5mm, 4x radius R8 in corners.

Easy

< 5 hours
346 47
Make an HDPE Knife

We show you how to make this 'reverse knife' (metal scales and plastic blade) using at-home techniques and processes. The knife is 'sharpened' but can...

Medium

< 1 week
664
Make a Coin Bottle Opener Mould

In this How-To you will get access to the necessary information to create your own Coin Bottle Opener. The opener is designed around a 10 Swiss cent ...

Hard

< 1 week
301 26
Build a bicycle powered shredder!

In this How-to, you will learn how we constructed our bicycle powered plastic shredder, and how you can built your own! Not only does it give you a re...

Hard

3-4 weeks
974 115
Turn a pizza oven into a Sheet oven

On this tutorial I will show you how we do plastic sheets with a pizza oven and a Cardboard/PET press.

Medium

< 1 week
375
Trash Printer Flake Extruding 3D Print Head

This is a modified extruder design, optimized for large-format 3D printing of recycled Polypropylene, using shredded plastic flakes rather than filame...

Medium

< 5 hours
348 21
Old School Bookmark Mould

Mould your own bookmark for your reading or even simply a marker for whatever it is you would like to mark or clip together with something else. Use p...

Medium

< 1 week
171 17
Make plastic yarn (plarn) from a plastic carry bag

With this technique we will get a single, continuous, seamless strand of yarn without any joining knots. All you will need is a plastic bag, a pair o...

Easy

< 1 hour
460
HDPE Dowel Nuts for Break Down Furniture

I use an induction stovetop to heat up a steel pipe and cast HDPE plastic to make threaded inserts (the Threaded Beavers). I enjoy making furniture o...

Easy

< 1 day
257
CNC plastic sheets into products

In this how to, I will show you our process to cut HDPE Sheets using a X-Carve CNC. Here is the full video in spanish with subtitles https://www.yout...

Medium

< 5 hours
423
Make a Silicone Mould for Soft Plastics

This tutorial will show you how to cast an object in silicone to use with soft plastics. Casting with silicone will allow you to remake intricate, del...

Easy

< 1 week
221
Clothes Hanger Mould

Clothes Hanger Mould

By

el-tornillo-taller

This one is a CNC machined mould, so find your favorite CNC provider and prepare to inject lots of hangers!

Hard

1-2 weeks
263 6
Contribute to open source projects

Getting started with contributing to open source projects may seem a little daunting so we wrote a quick guide. This focuses on GitHub based projects ...

Easy

< 1 hour
104
Zero Plastic Australia's Sheet Machine

A Simple, Cheap and Easy way to make sheets of recycled plastic (30cm x 25cm x 1cm) After having a Heart attack i realised that if i don't share this...

Medium

< 1 week
639
Mobile Plastic Recycling Unit

In this Project, we made a Moblie Plastic Recycling Unit through which we can recycle plastic at multiple locations and initiate the recycling process...

Medium

1-2 weeks
742
Affordable Cat House

How to draw custom shapes and designs by hand and then cut in CNC.

Medium

< 1 day
309
Create a Notebook with sugar cane paper and PP

How to create a notebook with sugar cane paper and precious plastic sheets with a personalized touch You will need: - A 2mm sheet - Sugar cane paper ...

Medium

< 5 hours
410
Upgrade your Toaster Oven

This mod to a entry level toaster oven will increase heating efficiency and temperature accuracy of the oven. It requires substituting the thermostat ...

Medium

< 5 hours
131
Double Face ( 2 colours ) Plastic Sheet

How to build your double face sheet press in easy steps.

Easy

< 1 hour
254
PET MINI - Recycled Electric Skate

PET MINI Skateboard is a Open Source, Recycled Electric Skateboard for urban transportation. With the goal to end stressful commutes and boost your do...

Very Hard

3-4 weeks
351 22
Jump rope handles mould

Jump rope handles mould

By

precious-plastic-estonia

Jump rope is a nice tool for keeping fit. This mould allows making a jump rope handle. It is intended for the injection machine and is quite easy in o...

Medium

< 1 week
153 4
Make some Colorful Plant Pots

Let's try to recycle some plastic into beautifully colorful plant pots.

Easy

< 5 hours
559
Construction of green walls with recycled plastic

The trend towards the use of sustainable materials in various sectors of the consumer market has produced a large number of alternatives that can be u...

Hard

< 1 day
134 2
UAO vertical manual injection machine

Following the initial precious plastic models, I modeled in SolidWorks with most of the detail, a manual vertical desktop injection molding machine th...

Easy

< 5 hours
204 5
Rapid-Fire-Method for Injection / 300 Face Shields a Day

With our Rapid-Fire-Method you can reduce your time-per-part by 50%. We started 3D-Printing face shields a while ago, but we couldn´t keep up with th...

Medium

< 1 week
222
Make outdoor furniture with beams

We extrude the mix of all the different kinds of plastic to sticks and screw them together to furniture. For our chairs you need stickd with hard part...

Medium

1+ months
381
Make a Jointed Tray

Working with sheets to make valuable objects with wood joint techniques.

Medium

< 1 week
301 18
Extrude a Bird Feeder

Bird feeder made with recycled plastic and Precious Plastic extruder. You can visit our blog and watch the video: https://menorplastic.com/disenamos-...

Easy

< 1 week
209
Low cost Washing Machine with water filter system

Learn how to modify any laundry machine to enable it for plastic washing without wasting any water drop. This guide will show you how to modify the el...

Medium

< 1 week
810 66
Sheetpress, a simple way, low cost

PP sheetpress is only useful for pellets or HDPE chips, but we need solutions for all kinds of plastic, mostly flakes from our shredders.... boards la...

Easy

< 1 hour
744 155

Guides

Make an adaptable sorting system

Make a sorting system that can adapt! if you have more plastic from one type just move the tabs to suit your needs!

Easy

< 1 week
386 24
Easily (hands-free) connect moulds to the injector

Screw-on moulds, clamping beds and other methods such as car jacks take time and more effort with your hands to connect moulds to the injector. This m...

Easy

< 1 hour
311
Make a simple & efficient 500mm x 300 mm sheet

This is Zero Plastics Australia's Large craft sheet design, In our opinion a must need for any workspace. MATERIALS NEEDED: Sheet press 800grams gran...

Medium

< 5 hours
704
Collecting plastic in Arugam Bay, Sri Lanka

Here we outline how we created an intervention into a booming tourist destination. As tourism related waste production diminished collection from the ...

Hard

1+ months
299
Dry materials for higher quality products

When you want to make products using more advanced Materials (e.g. industrial waste), drying your granulate is a necessary step. We will show you how...

Easy

< 1 hour
634
Make a bowl with kitchen molds

Making a bowl just squeezing the melted plastic in kitchen molds to get objects like vase, fruit bowl or organizer.

Easy

< 1 hour
193
Heat Shield for Injection and Extrusion Machines

Increase the safety and appearance of your injection and extrusion machine

Medium

< 5 hours
219
Make great beam patterns!

People ask me occasionally how to get beautiful patterns in the beams and the funny thing is that zero technical tricks are used to make that happen! ...

Easy

< 1 hour
726

Machines

El Tornillo Motor Injection Machine

This injection machine runs with a motor to save some labor and output more pressure to make more detailed products.

Hard

3-4 weeks
444 346
How to build mini press

Tutorial how to build mini press for compression moulding. For making this simple machine you need welding machine, access to laser cutting machine, d...

Medium

1-2 weeks
611 113
NPS_Air press injector-v1

Since 2016, NoPlasticSunday has been researching and developing machinery and equipment for plastic recycling using Precious Plastic in Korea. In Apri...

Hard

1+ months
484 83
Make an automated injection molding machine

This how-to contains information on how we built a low-cost, automated injection molding machine. Unfortunately the folder is way to big for uploading...

Hard

1+ months
574 96
Desktop hand table extruder

Desktop extruder for home use. It has a socket for fastening with clamps to the table. Transparent case walls allow you to see the components. Has a s...

Hard

1+ months
839 77
Human powered shredder

Human powered shredder

By

javier-singular-mars-ltd

The Precious Plastic machines are open source, which means you can adapt it to your requirements. So if you don't have or don't want to use a motor, t...

Medium

< 1 week
1683 327
Sheetpress v4 -Fiction Factory version

We have build the sheetpress system with some upgrades which we believe are worth sharing! In short: - Shared our labour hours for realistic price es...

Hard

1+ months
602 180
Log splitter injector upgrade

Need a little more power, or just feeling lazy? We've upgraded our PP injection mould machine using a 5T log splitter - this has made a world of diffe...

Medium

< 1 week
448 114

Moulds

Wall Peg mould

Wall Peg mould

By

el-tornillo-taller

Here you will find the 3D model and blueprints to create the wall peg mold!

Easy

1-2 weeks
394 28
Make plaster moulds for large products

Here, we outline the process of making and using plaster moulds. It’s a great low tech way of making larger, more complex products.

Medium

< 1 week
486
Polygonal mould for sheet press

Plastic sheets made with sheet press don't need to be square. Here we are showing you how to create octagonal mould to create octagonal plastic sheet...

Medium

< 1 day
462 13
Make a decorative plaster mould (soft plastics)

Learn how to make a decorative plaster mould to use for soft plastics. There are two parts to this process. Stay tuned to learn how to work with plast...

Easy

< 5 hours
246
Hands-Free Door Opener Mould

With this How-to you can make your mould to inject a "hands free" door handle - to help stop the spread of COVID-19!

Hard

< 1 week
195 6
Surf Fins Mould

Surf Fins Mould

By

preciosplasticvalencia

Preciós Plàstic València will show you a simple technique to make a mould for producing recycled surf fins. This include how to prepare the 2D/3D mod...

Medium

< 1 week
171 8
No Touch Tool with 3D printed mould

Create a tool for interacting with high contact areas such as door handles, pin pads, and light switches so your hands don't have to... helping preven...

Medium

< 1 week
460 28
Broom hanger mould

Broom hanger mould

By

el-tornillo-taller

A clamp to hang brooms and mops in the wall. Here are the steps to make its mold for the injection machine.

Hard

< 1 week
199 15

Products

SKATE RAILS: how 2 make / use recycled skate rails

Deck rails have been used by skateboarders since the 80’s to (1) help boards slide better on handrails, coping, curbs, etc., and (2) to protect board ...

Easy

< 1 hour
261
Boards made from marine litter

Creation and manufacture of boards or panels using as raw material recycled polypropylene plastic and fishing nets recovered by fishermen from the coa...

Medium

< 1 week
305
Make your shelf

Learn to build shelves or small furniture using the extruder and the injection machine.

Medium

< 1 day
278
Make buttons from Ocean Rope

As a coastal Precious Plastic workshop it's not a surprise to us that some of our prototyping focuses on plastics collected on Norfolk beach cleans. O...

Medium

< 1 hour
503
Necologica Key Hanger

It is an ideal key holder to use with carabiners. At its ends you can hang glasses, keys, chinstraps. It is attached to the wall with screws. We start...

Medium

< 5 hours
245 14
Low cost stool using cake mould

In this how to we want to share with you how to prepare a stool with a low cost mould. It is a simple cake tin instead of an engineered mould that wor...

Easy

< 5 hours
727
Create a Sports Medal with Clear Acrilic Inlay

Create stylish injection molded medals with engraved acrylic inlays. In our case we used PP for the plastic and 3mm clear acrylic off-cuts.

Medium

< 5 hours
329
Make christmas ornaments from upcycled bottle caps

Turn your plastic waste into some cute Christmas Ornaments that you can use for decoration or to hang on your gifts. Let`s make Christmas less trashy!...

Easy

< 5 hours
334

uncategorized

Cut out shapes out of plastic sheets with a CNC

In this how to, I will show you our process to cut HDPE Sheets using a X-Carve CNC. Here is the full video in spanish with subtitles https://www.yout...

Medium

< 5 hours
232
Collect more of one Plastic Type!

Want to collect more of a certain type of plastic for a specific project? Find out how we do it here 🙂

Easy

< 1 hour
483
Make a stool with upcycled PETG 3D print waste

In this How-To we'll teach you how to transform 3D print waste in design objects, using a shredder, a sheetpress and a CNC

Medium

< 1 day
310
Make a dog feeder

A dog feeder is like a box that allows your pet to eat at a comfortable height. In this case, I use a compression method to create plastic sheets

Medium

< 5 hours
286
Let's Make Rope from Single-Use Plastic Bags!

Let's make plastic rope! With a bit of patience -- and some handmade passion -- you can create colorful rope from single-use plastic bags.

Easy

< 1 week
434 78
Interconnecting Zephyr Block Mould

Here we'll show you how to make our Zephyr Block, designed in Melbourne, Australia! Interlocking to create all sorts of structures while making use of...

Medium

< 5 hours
626 23
Work with HDPE and make a recycled pen

This How-to aims to be the ultimate guide to HDPE and then teach you how to make a recycled pen out of it. The recycled plastic pen is a nifty writin...

Medium

< 5 hours
288
Make a Cyclette Shredder

In this step-by-step guide, we'll walk you through the process of building your very own plastic shredder powered by a bicycle. The cyclette shredder...

Medium

< 1 day
1373 103