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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Extrusion machine

Design of the year nominee

Team collecting bottles in front of a dumpsite

Collecting thousands of plastic bottles for an installation at Glow

Injection machine

Injector in Sri Lanka

Rocket Stove

DIY aluminum moulds

Dave's setup for the extrusion.

Prototype Extrusion

4 men with recycled bricks

Bricks from ocean plastic

man swimming in a lake

We've been clearing the spring

Mattia on a boat looking out

To boat or not to boat?

Shredder machine

Shredder in Rimini

man wiring cables for recycling machine

Late wiring

Precious Plastic Exhibition in London

Exhibition Design of the year

Men in Korea

Upcycling center Korea

Worry bead mould for recycled plastic

Worry beads mould

Precious Plastic injection machine

Customised Injection machine

Crate storage

Crate Storage

Phoneblocks

Project Ara prototype

Scrapyard

Hardware store

Little girl playing with recycled plastic

Experimenting in Taiwan

Green ex german army mercedes ambulance 609D converted to a camper parked on a land

Arrived in the land

Man wearing a gasmask

Business guy In the workspace