Plastic Smithing: How to Make Your Own HDPE Plastic Anything (DIY Plastic Lumber): How to make really good hard plastic while reusing and recycling plastic bags at home! Via this method, you can make ANYTHING you want to, out of hard, lightweight, real plastic that's astoundingly durable. It comes out very similar in texture to re…

We made the 3D Nintendo logo from the N64 days and of course, we made it out of recycled HDPE plastic.This was the deepest blank we have cast so far and it t...

Milk Jug Vacuum Forming - Recycled HPDE Plastic: This Instructables shows you how to reclaim / re-use / re-cycle HDPE plastic, from waste milk jugs - and use them for Vacuum Forming. It saves using virgin plastic, (say for prototyping), is food safe, is flexible once moulded (good for concrete min…

Plastic Brick Compressor: Background This is my IB HL Design Technology major project. It is a product that takes plastic waste and transforms it into bricks. This product was specifically designed for rural (developing areas) environments and as such, requires no electrici…

How to Recycle HDPE (milk Bottles and Caps) Into Usable Sheet Material: I discovered an easy way to recycle HDPE into small sheets of tough, rigid material, using a flat sandwich toaster. Here's a video of the process: And here's another showing various ways of working the plastic material: Source…

Small batch HDPE Recycling Recycled HDPE is an excellent media source for making small parts. If you’ve ever priced materials

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THE FANTASTIC PLASTIC TILE: Recycling has become a bigger and bigger thing over the years and will be of even greater influence in the future. Not only are we trying to clean up the oceans, but this left over plastic needs a place to go. Where the current philosophy is that th…