a method and apparatus for recycling pure which is disgorged from a plastic injection molding machine . the apparatus has a hopper which is placed below the injection nozzle of an injection molding machine . purge is released from the injection nozzle and falls into a hopper located on the apparatus . from the hopper the purge is drawn downward by two coacting compression rollers which have the dual function of compressing and forming the purge into a recyclable form . after compression and forming the purge is available for storage or reuse .