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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Worry bead mould for recycled plastic

Worry beads mould

Magazine cover

Coverboy

Shredded car bumpers

Car bumpers

Sheetpress machine

Playful Sheetpress

Pecha Kucha conference

Pecha kucha night

Phonebloks ad in London street

Ad in London

Precious Plastic Exhibition in London

Exhibition Design of the year

scrapy can

Plastic on land

Dave's setup for the extrusion.

Prototype Extrusion

Woman working on a lathe

Carolina making stuff in the workspace

Microplastics

Microplastics

Colourful beams

Working on beams

blue lamp made from recycled plastic

Lamps made in Korea

Extruded lamp

Kees is making stuff with plastic

Shipping container converted in a workspace

Our basekamp in shipping containers

Vegan food in a plate

Delicious vegan food, everyday!

Precious Plastic injection machine

Customised Injection machine

Plastic sheet

Plastic sheets in London

Little girl playing with recycled plastic

Experimenting in Taiwan

Precious plastic machine printed

The world is getting started