Recycling machines

Hoping to give plastic recycling a boost, this designer has created a prototype that could allow people to recycle and produce plastic products locally.

About the size of a Coke machine, the Greenopolis recycling kiosk identifies recyclable materials from their UPC bar codes and then spits out a deposit ticket with reward points.

Plastic waste is shredded into flakes which will be used in the other machines to create new things. You can select the output size of these flakes by

Water is a limited resource on our planet and saving it is indeed a duty for all of us. Joanna Power and Paramveer Bhachu, student product designers from Walsall near Birmingham, UK have come up with an innovative product with the aim to save this valuable element. The duo has invented a portable washing machine called Lava Aqua X that allows recycling water drained in the shower and reusing it for washing clothes.

Construction industry is a major contributor to pollution, which is a concerning problem all around the world. In recent years, there have been various developments like recycled plastic bricks and RePlast blocks made from ocean waste, that provide some relief to the degrading environment, but we need to do a lot more. #recycle #bricks #gogreen #environment

It is hoped that the units will reach out to the half a million City workers who commute to and from the Square Mile every day.

Makers can now download Precious Plastics' open source designs for their modular upcycling machines.

Precious Plastic is giving instructions on how to build a series of simple machines that will let makers turn plastic trash into new material.

Dave Hakkens' open-source platform empowers people around the world to "recycle like rockstars"