Precious Plastic NYC

The glass-front studios on a tree-lined block hum with the friction of saws slicing recycled car bumpers. Precious Plastic NYC specializes in turning post-consumer plastic into durable sheets, beams and even custom fixtures without virgin material. They accept HDPE crates and PET bottles, then shred, melt and mold into panels that travel from sidewalk kiosks to small-scale contractors. Runners also drop off sorted flake; they’ll extrude custom profiles or print swatches for proofing jobs.

At the curb, the address reads like a warehouse tucked behind a bike courier: 12–64 Borden Avenue, Long Island City. Routes cross here because the space hosts more than one station: heat-press lamination, multi-axis filament winding and a DIY mid-scale injection former. Put a spool of colored regrind on the scale and they’ll walk through filament extrusion rates that shave cooling time.

Discarded cafeteria trays become shelving prototypes faster than you can say “bottle caps in the yellow bin.” They fab pop-up displays out of roto-molded churn and pivot the same machine over to flat-bed sheet work come afternoon. Under the rush of fans, hoppers chatter and platen temps hover in the predictable zone, feeding either benchtop routers or a tabletop CNC for secondary cuts.

Reach the place by dialing (347) 533-7869 if you’ve got a skid ready or only a sketch on paper. A quick look at the map shows the shortest freight path: directions steer left after the Domino sign and left again at the brown shipping container.