Current Initiative:
Precious Plastic
Our Goal:
We are building a machine using the Precious Plastic sheet press design to recycle acrylic scraps back into laser-cuttable sheets
Our Process:
![IMG_7152 Large IMG_7152 Large](https://makernetwork.web.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/IMG_7152-Large-768x1024.jpeg)
Collect & Sort
![IMG_7141 Large IMG_7141 Large](https://makernetwork.web.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/IMG_7141-Large-768x1024.jpeg)
Shred
![IMG_7147 Large IMG_7147 Large](https://makernetwork.web.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/IMG_7147-Large-768x1024.jpeg)
Heat & Pressure
![IMG_7034 Large IMG_7034 Large](https://makernetwork.web.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/IMG_7034-Large.jpeg)
What is Precious Plastic?
Precious Plastic is an international community of people working to build machines to recycle plastic. These machines are open-source and cover the entire plastic recycling process from shredding to heat pressing to injecting and extruding.