This guide takes you through setting up the process of heating and reforming HDPE plastic, to be moulded into re-usable shapes.

The cylindrical shaping, by use of hand-held turning tools, of a length of wood or, in the case of bowl turning, of a prepared block.

Controlling the dust and fumes from shaping and cutting plastic materials by hand and by machine.

Shaping and cutting plastic materials by machine (bandsaw, drilling, metal centre lathe and moulding trimmer).