Girls running Precious Plastic machines

Jul 10, 2025

Machines in Taiwan

For those who think machine building is for boys. These 4 girls from Taiwan build a set of ‎Precious Plastic‬ machinery to make a kids' playground from plastic bottles. 💪🏻 lab.preciousplastic.com for more community work.

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1 year after V2

Man surrounded by plastic bottles

One year without using plastic bottles

Shredder

Funny Hopper

man wiring cables for recycling machine

Late wiring

Woman standing on landfill

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plastic recycled flowerpot

Extruded flowerpot

Two man facing each other and talking

Jaden Smith in the workspace

Crate storage

Crate Storage

D&AD Award

D&AD Award

Fixed pants

New fixes from Estonia

Pallet with disassembled machine

Flatpack Sheetpress

Sheetpress machine

Playful Sheetpress

3D drawing of the sheetpress

How to make a 1.5 m Sheetpress

Woman working on a lathe

Carolina making stuff in the workspace

Precious Plastic injection machine

Customised Injection machine

two vans and two man in a field

Basekamp is growing

Magazine cover

Coverboy

Group of people standing in front of a workspace

Precious Plastic team

plastic waste from the beach

Ocean Plastic

Hand making a taco

Plant-based delight ☘️ 🤤⁣