Open-Source Recycling

While i nether have the room nor the time to do this, i love the idea. I also love the "Why" section of the website, so simply yet so mighty.

I wonder if this project is based off the earlier Recyclebot? That was something I&#x27;d wanted to build for a long time.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thingiverse.com&#x2F;thing:12948" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thingiverse.com&#x2F;thing:12948</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;reprap.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Recyclebot" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;reprap.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Recyclebot</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.appropedia.org&#x2F;Recyclebot" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.appropedia.org&#x2F;Recyclebot</a><p>Precious Plastic certainly looks further along though - and their instructions look to be higher quality, too.

Always wanted to do this, but I was afraid reprocessing plastics would release toxic fumes or hard to detect dangers for the average guy. I can&#x27;t stand throwing things anymore.

A positive thing for sure. But the hardest part is not the processing, it`s the sorting of different types of plastic and the washing phase if required.

Someone who knows more should prove me wrong, but...<p>Intuitively shouldn&#x27;t a dedicated plant&#x27;s machinery have much higher efficiency? Coupling that with the biggest problems of recycling being the combined energy costs of transportation and processing, this seems to not solve anything?<p>It kind of solves only one leg of the transportation, but the final recycled plastic will still need to be transported. That&#x27;s again assuming costs of transportation are linear with respect to number of sources (but I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s true...). And assuming same thing about processing energy efficiency, this does worse with the processing energy part.

My wife was wondering whether this can be considered 100% healthy: don&#x27;t you need plastic to reach a very high temperature to model it that way? Doesn&#x27;t it start releasing whatever thing that might be carcinogenic or such?

From <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;preciousplastic.com&#x2F;machines&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;preciousplastic.com&#x2F;machines&#x2F;</a><p>&gt; You can make the molds completely yourself using CNC to mill the lathe or simply welding them.<p>.... What? &quot;mill the lathe&quot;? I think they accidentally a word in there.<p>&gt;These lines can be used to make new raw material (3d printing filament), granulate, spinned around a mold or up to you to find new creative ways.<p>&gt; Well suited to make large and more solid objects, the oven itself is also a great machine for prototyping and making plastic test.<p>&gt; Since it works with molds you can easily replicate and set up a production.<p>This website desperately needs copy-editing.<p>----<p>Also, I&#x27;m completely tired of people coming into an existing engineering discipline and deciding to come up with a whole bunch of terms for existing processes. It&#x27;s not &quot;a injection&quot;, it&#x27;s *an injection molding machine. All the new terminology does is make things extra confusing.

Not everyone has the skills, nor the tools to do this. I love the idea, and wish someone would make the machines (or the entire kits to assemble at home). I would buy them!

I&#x27;ve been looking for something like this for a while. Was already thinking on developing mynown machines but this just saved me lots of resources. Great project!