Recycling ocean plastic

Long description

Plastic@Bay has developed a low-tech ocean plastic recycling extrusion machine*, with a die*, cooling and cutting system in order to provide affordable solutions to recycling ocean plastic in rural coastal communities.

The technical aims of the project is to upgrade our low tech extrusion machine to be fully automated and to increase it’s processing capacity to 20-30 kg plastic per hour, and with a low-tech die, cooling and cutting system capable of continuous production of simple profiles, for example fence posts, planks and other non-load bearing construction material.

The extrusion upgrades were completed at our workshop, Plastic Lab, Durness, Scotland, in 2022.  The die system was developed  and built by our engineering intern Guillaume Pic-Rivière at INSA Engineering University, France, where he had access to leading edge metal workshop and engineering software.

Next we are looking for funding to fit the extrusion machine and die with cooling system, hopper and loader (for rope and net fibres), and cutting system so production can start.

All certifications, plans and associated paperwork is available through our open source workspace;

https://gitbuilding.io/

*Extrusion is a process used to create objects of a fixed cross-sectional profile by pushing material through a die of the desired cross-section.

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