[Jason Knight], an intern at FabLab RUC, has worked hard for 9 months to make a sheet plastics shredder for HDPE and LDPE from things like plastic bags, bubble wrap and air cushion packaging with the ...

From electronic scrap to bulk shipping bags, shredders are finding new roles in the globally expanding plastic recycling sector. Big bags, also known as FIBCs, are usually made of polypropylene and ...

[Brogan M Pratt] and his students do a lot of 3D printing, and as such found themselves producing a lot of plastic waste. Seeing an opportunity, they built a bike-powered plastic shredder that turns a ...

Our whole system is built to reward recyclability. But what actually matters is how much we’re manufacturing in the first place.

This collaboration between four RASEI Fellows shows how electricity can be used to impart ‘superoxide powers’ to oxygen gas molecules from air, enabling the efficient recycling of PET plastics. In ...