diy crafts using recycled materials can be easy if you watch these projects. If you don’t have an opportunity to separate ...

Discover how to create a DIY mini helicopter using recycled materials like a Red Bull can and a small plastic bottle. This ...

The 2011 recycle recovery rate in the U.S. was an abysmal eight percent, prompting a Dutch designer to create a DIY plastic-recycling machine. Dave Hakkens’ open-source prototype, called Precious ...

Though 100% of plastics are recyclable, just 10% of our plastics ever actually get recycled. Most of this waste winds up clogging landfills. For his senior thesis project at Eindhoven Design Academy, ...

It all started in 2014 when Dave Hakkens, then a student at the Eindhoven Design Academy, released his design for a plastic recycling machine to the world for free. The aim was to make plastic ...

Dave Hakkens is going into “do-it-yourself” mode for plastics recycling. It's not just for a new hipster trend project. Instead, Hakkens has developed a way to grind and recycle plastics and reuse it ...

Tomorrow's home improvement project tools may rely on yesterday's single-use plastics. Stanley Black & Decker announced Oct. 11 that it will use chemically recycled Tritan Renew materials from Eastman ...

I recently stumbled on a growing group of electronics hobbyists who are scavenging 18650 lithium ion batteries from laptop batteries to build sizable Tesla-style powerwalls. They're often paired with ...