Supersized Sheet Press!
Our biggest baddest machine yet! Fabricated at the ISK Design Lab using Precious Precious Plastic's open source blueprints this sheet press creates beautiful 1.2m x 1.2m recycled plastic sheets up…
Tuktuk with a Mission!
One year ago we partnered with the ISK Autos Club to transform a 1-cylinder diesel-powered 1970 PiagioApe passenger-carrier into a pick-up designed for waste collection and showcasing recycled plastic products.…
Precious Plastic Video
Check out this feature on Plastiki Rafiki, produced by our friends at Precious Plastic! We can not thank Precious Plastic enough for all their work, support, and vision over the…
Recycled plastic paving tiles!
Over the last few months we have been working together with the Construction by Design club, experimenting with simple plastic composites - adding sand and other aggregates to waste plastic…
Experimenting with our tools!
Testing out our SLA printer to create accurate 3D molds of ancient stone tools, to be used with our injector to create scaled replicas out of 100% recycled plastic. These…
New Injection Machine Design for the ISK Middle School!
We recently fabricated a set of Plastic Recycling machines for the ISK Middle School, replicating the set up we have in the High School. In addition to the plastic shredder…
Beyond Plastic!
We recently built a Biopress Machine using open source designs from Precious Plastic with the goal to create rigid and strong biodegradable materials using food waste that could replace single…
Plastiki Rafiki Sets Sail!
Plastiki Rafiki Partners with Flipflopi for the Lake Victoria Expedition Plastiki Rafiki is excited to announce a partnership with the Flipflopi project for their upcoming Lake Victoria expedition. The purpose…
Off-grid Plastic Recycling!
Over the last couple of months we have been working on designing and testing off-grid plastic recycling machines for a project in Northern Kenya. We built a pedal powered plastic…
Happy New Year from Plastiki Rafiki!
As we count the days till the end of 2019 we wanted to share some numbers from last year.... Machines: We have built 6 different compression molding machines, 4 injection…
