A battery powered 5" circular saw and a few minutes in that parking lot should take care of that. 
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Iām looking at one right now. There was no beating the convenience and accuracy of asking them to cut it down at the store, but Iām looking at a 18v ryobi. Should be plenty of power to make it through 4 or 5 sheets in a session.
In a heartbeat. I use one of those for 90% of my circular saw work. Itāll handle 2-by stock easily too.
Keep an eye out for holidays - the battery packs will be half off (2 batteries for price of one - might be running now because of Fatherās Day).
I can run through a pack and then pop it in the charger and by the time the second ones runs out of juice the first one is recharged.
Grab a clamping rail too so you can just line it up and zip the saw down. And if you have an outfeed roller stand bring it with you so you can rest one end on the trunk and the other on the feed roller. I have an expandable table thing they had on sale a year or so ago - itās aluminum with a scissory type action to open up and can actually hold a ton of weight.
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Clamping rails are cheap at Harbor Freight, just FYI.
I am āfully investedā in Ryobi cordless (18V) tools, made the decision a few years back and have almost all of them. I still have ārealā power tools but when you just want to miter some trim or slice up a large board, they are invaluable. A sharp blade helps!
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Here is a bit of an update for Atlanta acrylic sourcing:
Piedmont Plastics is very friendly, they have one long front desk to talk to sales reps at. Although they are a very large supplier of acrylics (think of the businesses that make signs for Home Depot, etc.), they also have lots of large scrap. I spoke with Ryan, who hooked me up with a colored mirror sample pack, a clear/patterned/black sample pack, and then off-cuts from the warehouse. He said that their scraps go to the recyclers, and I was welcome to come in anytime to select material out of their recycle bins. The warehouse requires close-toed shoes, like any warehouse. Like seriously, this guy hooked me up with about 100 lbs of offcuts of silver mirror acrylic, the equivalents of 18 or so glowforge-sized acrylic sheets in clear, red, green, blue, and home depot orange ;p ;p ;p
Ryan suggested checking out N.Glantz and Calsak Plastics, but we couldnāt get to them before they closed that day.
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Johnson Plastics Plus though, meh. Their front office is basically order pickup, they have some products to look at, but nothing that you can buy there unless you are picking up an order that you put in online. They will happily give you a catalog though.
Atlanta Plastics, either no longer at the Google Maps address, or not a storefront.
Donāt forget the Restore, we picked up 2-3 sheets of grey marble coaster-sized hex tiles for about $3.
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Awesome scrap friendliness. I got scraps for free from Professional plastics, but they were not the most open about it, and only let me do it because āI had purchased from them beforeā. I mean I get it, they donāt want a bunch of scroungers coming in and dumpster diving, but like your source, they were just going to recycle them.
Iāll add your source info to the top post, thanks!
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Good info, thanks!
Sucks theyāre closed on weekends!
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we bought some stuff from Rockler. Not really happy with the quality. Their thin stock was all narrow (i think the biggest was maybe 4" x 24"x1/8"? and cupped or warped. Thatās the kennesaw store, so maybe the other location is different, butā¦