Precious Plastic

Precious Plastic is a project for DIY plastic recycling. More about the project on their website

Collecting

We're collecting different types of plastic in labeled black boxes ( + one box for the stuff we're not sure about). Everything should be clean before it gets into the boxes!

• Acrylic is really hard to recycle apparently, so we're not collecting that
• Sorting through the plastics recycling bin helps us reduce the amount of plastic trash
• Dumpster diving on the KQ?

Further research necessary

• Styrofoam
  • Mostly polystyrene, "expanded polystyrene", short EPS
  • Dissolvable in Acetone (but that's kinda nasty and not exactly healthy
  • Topics in the forum: [1] [2]
  • Maybe heat and compression to make it smaller and shreddable?

Machines

• Shredder?
• Oven?