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I didn't see an FAQ and can only guess and piece it together, here goes: Precious Plastics designs, sells and operates plastic processing and recycling equipme
by acyou 1y ago
I didn't see an FAQ and can only guess and piece it together, here goes:
Precious Plastics designs, sells and operates plastic processing and recycling equipment, including crucibles, presses, extrusion presses, sheet presses, injection molding machines, shredders, graders. You can buy the equipment or download the drawings for free, it's open source.
Precious Plastics operates a partner network of plastic recyclers and processors. Especially in developing countries where industrial scale recycling infrastructure doesn't already exist, this allows plastic recycling to happen in situations where it would otherwise go in a landfill.
Precious Plastics has a small, human centric ideal embedded in its culture and messaging. It's based around the idea of a small machine in a garage operated as a hobby with others in the local community, not a vertically integrated industrial behemoth.
Does that cover it well?
- try_the_bass 1y agoWas this written by an LLM?
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]
- acyou 1y agoNo, what are you trying to say?
- try_the_bass 1y agoIt reads like ChatGPT or another recent LLM wrote it. So I asked?
- groggo 1y agoI thought it was a nice clear summary, I wouldn't care if it was from an LLM. This summary should be at the top of their page. Maybe it'd be nice if there were a Chrome HN plugin that adds a summary like this to all articles on HN so you can get the context before either reading the article or skimming the comments.
- try_the_bass 1y agoYeah, it wasn't a bad summary, but it reads like a ChatGPT response
- gus_massa 1y agoIt's weird that each paragraphs start with "Precious Plastics". It may be a sign of AI or an unusual writing style. The author claims it's not AI and looking at the previous comments of the author they look not AI generated, so I guess it's not AI generated.
- Joel_Mckay 1y agoThey ignored industrial drain pipe manufactures that already include >25% recycled plastics. Then bumped their design cost out of hobby budgets, and ignored safety warnings about steam blow-outs with molten plastics for decades. The math doesn't math... ymmv =3