material plastic Product recycling 

recycling plastic the right way : TED talk by Mike Biddle

Less than 10% of plastic trash is recycled — compared to almost 90% of metals — because of the massively complicated problem of finding and sorting the different kinds. Frustrated by this waste, Mike Biddle has developed a cheap and incredibly energy efficient plant that can, and does, recycle any kind of plastic. Read Mike’s responses to questions about this talk. Discarded plastic, too often, ends up buried or burned, not recycled (it’s just too complicated). But Mike Biddle has found a way to close the loop.

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Art cutting electronic handmade industrial laser cutting material process Product wood 

Interactive laser cutter

Constructable is an interactive drafting table that produces precise physical output in every step. Users interact by drafting on the workpiece using a hand-held laser pointer. The system tracks the pointer and implements its effect by cutting the workpiece using a high-powered and fast laser cutter. More Information: http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/baudisch/projects/constructable.html Constructable is a research project by Stefanie Mueller, http://www.stefaniemueller.org Pedro Lopes, http://www.plopesresearch.net Patrick Baudisch, http://www.patrickbaudisch.com Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany via notcot

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