recycling

My wife needed some boxes for her pills. I made an apparatus to compress melted HDPE grocery bags to make a pretty dense plastic. I also melted some Polypropylene yogurt containers which made harder plastic that was easier to single point thread. The HDPE worked well, but the threads get a...

Machining operations often generate some plastic waste. Companies often collect this waste and try to use it by putting a small percentage of waste in with the virgin plastic. The problem is that the rate of generating scrap exceeds the ability to reuse it. Other companies simply write it off...