In any design workshop, managing waste is an ongoing challenge, especially when the waste produced isn\u2019t in large enough quantities to interest commercial recyclers. In the B.15 workshop, one of our waste management responsibilities is to deal with Acrylic offcuts and waste produced through student modelmaking, most notably from laser cutting activity. Whilst the quantities may be small by industrial standards, the impact adds up over time and it has always been our intention to find a solution to this waste stream.<\/p>\n
For several years the team have stored acrylic waste in the hope of finding a sustainable solution as opposed to the general waste route which many workshops often default to. A key complication is that Acrylic (PMMA) cannot be recycled with general plastic and requires a specialised process. Most local recycling services are not equipped to handle it and the services that do, often recycle the waste at sites abroad. After exhausting conversations with recycling companies coming up with no useful solution, we turned to a trusted local supplier, Floreeda Fabrications<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\t\t