Talley, A., & Talley, K. G., & Rodriguez Verde, P. (2023, June), Board 124: MAKER - Recycling HDPE in an Academic Makerspace   Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--42430

\bibitem{asee_peer_42430}
  Talley, A., \& Talley, K. G., \& Rodriguez Verde, P. (2023, June), \emph{Board 124: MAKER - Recycling HDPE in an Academic Makerspace }
  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland.
  10.18260/1-2--42430

Austin Talley, Kimberly Grau Talley P.E., and Pablo Rodriguez Verde.  "Board 124: MAKER - Recycling HDPE in an Academic Makerspace ".  2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2023.  https://peer.asee.org/42430 Internet.  25 Apr, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_42430}
  Austin Talley, Kimberly Grau Talley P.E., and Pablo Rodriguez Verde.
  "Board 124: MAKER - Recycling HDPE in an Academic Makerspace ".
  \emph{2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2023.
  https://peer.asee.org/42430 Internet.  25 Apr, 2025

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Academic makerspaces are becoming increasingly common on university campuses.  Their growing numbers raise the question of how can an university makerspace engage a diverse set of users, who represent the university’s student body, into the space.  As such a project in the Ingram Hall Makerspace has been implemented to attempt to engage diverse students by doing post-consumer recycling of HDPE (#2) plastic. This paper will describe the process used to clean, cut and/or shred #2, and then mold the prepared plastic into new products.  At present, students can make a screwdriver, coaster, or a key chain out of the post-consumer plastics.  The molds for the project were CNC-milled in the Ingram Hall Makerspace by manufacturing engineering students out of aluminum blocks.  This paper will go through some lessons learned about the mold making process. As a part of the presentation, the evolution of the molds and sample products will be displayed. The paper also discusses some future projects that have been started to move the overall project forward with the goal to make student-led post-consumer recycling an active part of the Ingram Hall Makerspace experience.
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