Plastic waste recycling press

Great stuff from Maker Faire Africa via Afrigadget.

“We’ve got a lot of plastic trash all over Africa, especially in the cities. A team from IDDS (Amit Gandhi from the US, and Mark Driordan from the UK) decided to create a way to add value to waste plastic by using a low-cost process to transform it into something useful: plastic sheets. From these sheets can be made a number of other products. On display they had shoes, bags, pencil cases and folders.”

See video here.

Image credit, Maker Faire Africa Flickr pool.

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2 Responses to “Plastic waste recycling press”

John Says:
March 5, 2010 at 9:31 am | Reply
With all of the waste plastic we have this press encourages me to think that we will be able to make usable products from landfills worth of plastic.
Kruno Says:
April 21, 2010 at 7:50 am | Reply
Interesting part is that so called 3rd world with all its poority has biggest problem with plastic waste.