I've found it easier rather than bothering with any shredding or doing the initial melt in the oven to just do a pass over the bags with a heat gun or a high pass with a blow torch. The plastic will do a partial melt and shrink in on itself, but will cool very quickly so that it can be safely handled sooner. Do this for a few of them and you'll end up with small, compressed nuggets of plastic that take up a lot less volume, so you can pack them in to your mold for a longer melt to fully liquefy and unify them together. Other advantage in my experience is that you're much less likely to get air bubbles this way.
It seems like children’s blocks and Jenga sets would be very easy to make with this technique. They would also look amazing with that marbleized look. I’d totally buy them.
I'm really surprised that the guys didn't tell you about using baking paper in your bowl to stop it sticking and make it so easy to get the plastic out.
This is genius! I'm working on a project with my STEM students to redesign student lockers. I'd love to make sheets of this plastic to use as the material for the prototype. I'm excited to find an inexpensive way we can create recycle plastic in the classroom and make things with it.
Thanks for the video. Would be great to figure out a way to turn plastic bags into plastic counter tops. There is more than 1,000,000 tons of plastic bags sitting in a pile nicely sorted just outside of Jakarta, Indonesia if anyone wants it. The government pays workers to sort and pile them up, just in case one day someone figures out what to do with all of them.
Thumbs up for your government. I hope the workers work under safe/healthy conditions. I can't imagine how much is 1 million tons of plastic bags. I really hope that one day somebody can use those bags as raw material for precious recycled plastic products which last very long. May that day come soon.
thank you for your video. I am a hobby potter / ceramist and so far I have figured out how to make some artistic or functional use of all my ceramic waste (clay, oxides, etc...) except for of course, plastic. Now having been empowered by this video, I can do some experimentation on melting down a large cache of plastic I have been saving up just in case I figure out what to do with it. Well, I just did :)
Thank you, Dave! I've been looking for inspiration; I have been toying with ideas and plastics recycling for a while, thank you for helping me pick up that motivation again!!
Very innovative Idea....but definitely with the consideration of some very important safety measures....but can't deny it was really knowledgeable....keep sharing.
Brilliant, I am so happy to see more and more solutions popping up about reusing plastic and keeping it away from littering our oceans. I will try this one for sure. Thanks
excellent, looks great, i love that the plastic shrinks when cooling and separates from the mould. Thanks for the inspiration and keep on trucking (from France) !
I'll never have the knowledge or motivation to do this myself, but I love watching your precious plastic series anyway! I think you should make and sell finished products with this. Cut the cubes into tiles and assemble them into a backsplash, make a table out of this, etc. Then make videos that are dedicated just to the finished products! It's a good way to get people excited about this idea, and that will make this project grow faster, I think.
I really do think the most effective use for these techniques is to make blocks like this or more rectangular stock which can then be cut/machines into actual useful items rather than just art objects. It would maybe be worth while approaching one of the many machinist type youtubers and offer to send them some of this recycled plastic stock to have them turn your blanks into something interesting.
I molded my bags differently. I attached a heater plate directly to the side of the mold, heated the mold up to temp and stuffed it full of whole bags. It works just as well and requires a lot less equipment. It takes longer to cool, but that doesn't bother me.
Guys...think about this... if you make a few cubes like these a day, just a few, just think of how soon youd have enough material to build a home. Instead of working your butt off and putting money away, treating this like an art project/meditation moment, you'd not only end up with a pretty much a free home but also a sane mind. And look how many people we could inspire to do the same. Why do we pay 50 million dollars to build a massive project if we have the resources everywhere... I wish I could find a group of people who are passionate enough to go through this with me. Imagine all the possibilities if we only got together as a community.
I've been trying to do the same thing for years. Count me in. I've been collecting trash, big and small, for years and have taken on a few projects but I need help building the community that I believe a lot of people want. Count me in if you're serious!
@@madelinemarie623 Yes, let's keep in touch. I've been brainstorming about the different uses, especially ones that would be beneficial to society in more ways than one. A few countries have caught on but we are are still so wasteful as a whole. One thing this world needs more of is shelter. Even if that means a temporary housing opportunity. But so much potential for the community unity to grow, too, that to me is inspiring. To see people working together, driven by one shared passion. I've recently seen a project done by runners, I forgot what they called it but they'd run all over with bags and pick up trash. Recycling is great! And their idea is great because it's not just internet awareness, people see people doing things. Fun is contagious.
@@Lina-gd8xf Madelinem13m@gmail.com Email me anytime. Send me links to videos or events that are showing ways to either reuse material or unify people by cleaning up their communities like you mentioned or any ideas you have yourself. I've been passionate about this for as long as I can remember. It goes hand in hand with my passion for wildlife (or just animals, reptiles, etc domesticated or wild). When I was about 6, in school, I "invented" more so created, a public trash can with three openings for separating materials, not much of a huge creation but it shows you how long I've been trying to develop a way to solve our problem. (I ended up seeing, 12 years later, the same trash can being used in Coconut Creek here in Florida, I was so excited!) But I've also invented the catalytic converter for a science project, only to find out it was already invented as the catalytic converter.(mine was a little different, just same concept) and my dream is to figure out how to store the electricity from lightning and use it but I'm a little weary to go to school for engineering because my attention span isn't the greatest and having to learn the physics behind just an idea that might not even work, and pay all that money for tuition...ehh...might not be for me. I just finished building my greenhouse out of plastic bottles. It's around 770 bottles. You take the bottle, cut the top and bottom off to where you only have the place where the label was and you cut that in half, flip one side over, staple them together and do this to make shingles or sheets for walls. Look up plastic bottle shingles if your curious, they make good roofs for dog houses or chicken coops, even sheds. I've done plenty of things just for myself, I built a retaining wall out of tires at the bank of my lake to raise the land to one day build a dock out of pallets. I would love to find a group of people passionate like me that we can feed off each other to learn more ways of reusing our waste to develop structures. Like the guy who built his own floating private island out of trash (UA-cam that if you've never seen it). We have laws in place that make this stuff illegal though. Like collecting rain water. Look up Mother Ships (I think that's what they are called) look up Mother Ships Made out of trash or something like that. These beautiful homes are illegal to build but they are all made out of trash. In highschool, I found out that the recycling bins were dumped into the regular trash. I called the school board and they said they didn't have the funds to recycle. I called 3 different departments and asked how to get this talked about and basically got laughed at. One person can make a difference but when more people are fighting for change, things can get done. I want to do more than just reuse my waste for crafts or yard renovations. We have Congress proposing to tax us for the miles we drive with the carbon tax, and other stuff with this green new deal, but they can't even get our recyclables to be processed here in the US, we ship it to China! Our streets are covered in litter and there are protests for women's rights and they leave the signs behind. Why not march and pick up trash instead of yelling about climate change while littering in the process? I will never trust a politician fighting against "climate change" that doesn't do anything but want to raise taxes. Ugh, it just bothers me. My state, Florida..our waters are becoming so toxic and we haven't taken advantage of our sun for energy. There has to be a way to shift the conversation and start talking about reusing what we already have to save money and clean our environment... There is so much we could do if they changed the laws. They don't want us to be able to use our trash though or collect rain water or anything of that nature(pun intended). They can't keep their funders happy that way. But if we develop great ideas that work and prove them, advertise them, and fight for them to be legal they will have no choice but to allow it because then their "fight against climate change" is proven to be nothing more than a way to tax us and control us even more by limiting the amount of driving we can do, water we can use, electricity, etc. I just want people to stop and realize the possibilities. I just wish more people cared.
I got inspired from watching this video and decided to try melting some bags myself. I bought a 2" pipe nipple and two threaded caps. Screwed one cap on the nipple, stuffed the pipe nipple with plastic bags then screwed the other cap on. Placed the assembly into a fire I got going in my fire pit and the pipe turned orange. The next morning when the assemble was cool, I unscrewed the cap on one end and to my disappointment there was nothing inside except a little ash. I couldn't believe that all that plastic disintegrated so completely.
HDP is rapidly going to be a thing of the past, stores have switched to paper bags & most likely going to more environmentally kinder substances for milk jugs. So if you want to make monster dice get on It! Love your video!
Is Brilliant ide, nice to meet you and how are you? i hope Will many people be like you, who can recycle plastic would be art. Reducing garbage. I'm a painter and i am using recycle plastic for my painting also. Here in my country so many trash, and i have project about environtmen, educational and Art. Happy watching your process and keep spirit to make better environtmen. I learned lot from you. Big regard from Indonesia.
I love your accent. Great video. Well done. I also like one of the comments. If you could make small boards and then make a garden bench. That would look so cool.
Wow!! Brilliant idea and intelligent process!! Plastic marbles are just as beautiful. The only concern is the melting step if there’s any chemical generated there that’s bad for people’s health
Hi! Another question is, can the mold be in bigger scale for example a 3-5 meter column so that more plastic bags from waste could be torched (as suggested below) and melted to pour into big column like mold to form real columns? Is that possible?
Excellent tutorial. I've learned so many great tips from your group, which I've applied to my own plastic recycling. I just wanted to offer a cautionary remark. It can be quite dangerous to run material under 30cm in length through a jointer (what you called a thickness planer). My worst shop related injuries (plural) were incurred by doing just that. If you must do this (but don't) at least use a push blocks.
BRILLIANT Every school should be running every student through this simple plastics recycling project If it inspires just 1% imagine how that could save resources, cut waste. And yeah as people often note, better safety techniques, I cringe everytime these folk stuff plastics down a shredder with their hands - Ekkkkkkk - so if you do this at your school, make sure the shop teacher is in charge.
I love this idea. Plastic bags sit in the landfills forever and this will cut down on that waste. I wonder if you could remodel kitchen counters with this and if the material is durable enough to make cutting blocks? I will try this and let you know what I come up with. I love this- THANK YOU!!
Make a black metal mold in the shape of a picket for a picket fence. Hit the metal with a bunch of 8x11 Fresnel lens sheets. Place bags in hot metal mold to begin the melting process. Place other cut up plastic on top of melting bags. Place another layer of bags on top of this plastic. Place black metal lid on top of mold. Hit with lenses to melt top plastic bags. Let cool. Will this make decent pickets? They don't have to be perfect.
Larger form (similar to what is used to pour resin countertops), pressed together with wood and lots of clamps. The trick is to melt a large amount all at the same time. That takes many small ovens or one large oven.
Very good instruction! The only question is whether the temperature was 200 deg. F or 200 deg C. Since the melting point of HDPE is 130 C (266 F), and auto-ignition occurs at about 300 C (572 F) it is open to question. Just need to experiment with a fire extinguisher handy.
Many years ago I was told you could use plastic bags to make hot melt glue sticks, I just wondered if you have tried this ? Apologies if you have and I've miss it, keep up the good work !!!
This video was fine, but there are already dozens of videos on converting LDPE or HDPE into blocks. I would really like information on dealing with plastics other than LDPE and HDPE at home. #1 plastic, PETE, is particularly abundant but difficult to work with and any information you could offer would be welcome.
Olá!!! Estou maravilhada com os projetos que cada um de vocês vem apresentando, tenho aprendido,muito com cada um de vocês...GRATIDÃO!!!🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🌻🌻🌻 Sou do Brasil!!!
I really love that cube. It looks like a rock even though it's plastic. I gotta tell you that I'm starting to recycle plastic now! Mostly for plastic project boxes and also recycle some of it. Also I'm gonna sort it by the type and then by color which then I'm gonna recycle, then shred it to pieces and extrude into molds of boxes and more!!!!!! I'm the first person that's beggining to recycle plastic at home in Slovakia!!!! (but first I have to get a shredder and an extruder)
Which part of Slovakia are you from? I'd like to do something similar as well. I found the UA-cam channel and website of Precious Plastic about one week ago, after reading an article on the internet version of the newspaper SME. However I think you/I are not the first in Slovakia. If you look at the map on the Precious Plastic website you can see that more people have the same idea. But that does not really matter. There is so much plastic waste, thousands of people are necessary to get rid of it all.
I've seen videos of people making street art with plastic bags making monsters and animals that when uninflated it looks like trash and when inflated it looks like a really cool creature. It would be awesome to make these kind of blow up creatures for Holliday's like Halloween and Christmas. Cutting patterns and welding sheets together using an iron I guess. I love the idea of making things from what would normally be trash. Ive always wanted to know if you can mix high density polt ethane with log density. For instance mixing plastic bags with milk jugs or coffee ground jugs. Where I work I can often get old bottles and I tend to hold random plastics always with the hopes of doing something cool with them and I just need something really cool to do with them.
Cool Looks nice It's informative Not that many people have the time, machinery, or even money for utilities expenses for this type of project. But, still nice and informative.
The bags can be cut with scissors, a kitchen oven will do fine, you can use pans or baking trays as a mold, the press is just a car jack but you could also use clamps.
cris10smit your home oven will vary. Do you really want to take that chance and use it again with food? Because home ovens are not very accurate, they may go up in temperature, and that would release gases that you cannot control and they will condense on the walls of your oven, and getting rid of the smell can only happen after several hours of running the oven for several hours in clean mode, basically the highest possible temperature. And prepare for a lot of fumes and make sure ventilation is at max through the hood, if you have one.
Now you need a film extruder so you can recycle that back into plastic bags again... The LDPE and HDPE that those bags are made of is a very safe plastic. The fumes released upon heating are no more dangerous than a burning candle. Stay away from PVC, ABS, or PS though - they're very toxic when heated or burnt.
Please 'Don't' ever use a planing machine like this, planing machines are probably one of the most dangerous wood working machines to use 'Wrongly' and without guarding, very short sections like that cube can easily catch and drag tightly gripping fingers and hands into the Planers cutters. I have seen it happen and I have heard of many other horrific stories. Mike Harvey
my grandfather lost the tips of his fingers to a jointer. it would definitely be safer to make longer pieces, and with guards in place, while using push blocks. but i wonder, how fast it dulls jointer blades?
Any kind of blades will become dull from either one of two things. Excessive heat generated, or a substance that is equal to or greater in hardness than the blade.
At work there were 2 capenters who had lost bits of finger to planing machines in their youths. I was allowed to help in the carpenters shop but was never allowed to use the planer (insurance did not cover it).
Cool concept and great end product, but extremely dangerous to run anything that short / small over a jointer. That's a great way to make a mistake and loose a finger or even a hand! You're smarter than that! At the very least you could clamp the plastic in a fixture and be that much further from the cutter head.
I've found it easier rather than bothering with any shredding or doing the initial melt in the oven to just do a pass over the bags with a heat gun or a high pass with a blow torch. The plastic will do a partial melt and shrink in on itself, but will cool very quickly so that it can be safely handled sooner. Do this for a few of them and you'll end up with small, compressed nuggets of plastic that take up a lot less volume, so you can pack them in to your mold for a longer melt to fully liquefy and unify them together. Other advantage in my experience is that you're much less likely to get air bubbles this way.
It seems like children’s blocks and Jenga sets would be very easy to make with this technique. They would also look amazing with that marbleized look. I’d totally buy them.
NOTE: Galvanized metal should not be exposed to very high temperatures as the zinc may vaporize and pose a serious health risk.
I don't think they are heating that high. Zinc is only dangerous around 950°c or 1600°F
I'm really surprised that the guys didn't tell you about using baking paper in your bowl to stop it sticking and make it so easy to get the plastic out.
This is genius! I'm working on a project with my STEM students to redesign student lockers. I'd love to make sheets of this plastic to use as the material for the prototype. I'm excited to find an inexpensive way we can create recycle plastic in the classroom and make things with it.
Thanks for the video.
Would be great to figure out a way to turn plastic bags into plastic counter tops.
There is more than 1,000,000 tons of plastic bags sitting in a pile nicely sorted just outside of Jakarta, Indonesia if anyone wants it.
The government pays workers to sort and pile them up, just in case one day someone figures out what to do with all of them.
Thumbs up for your government. I hope the workers work under safe/healthy conditions. I can't imagine how much is 1 million tons of plastic bags.
I really hope that one day somebody can use those bags as raw material for precious recycled plastic products which last very long.
May that day come soon.
thank you for your video. I am a hobby potter / ceramist and so far I have figured out how to make some artistic or functional use of all my ceramic waste (clay, oxides, etc...) except for of course, plastic. Now having been empowered by this video, I can do some experimentation on melting down a large cache of plastic I have been saving up just in case I figure out what to do with it. Well, I just did :)
recycle, reuse, up-cycle and save the planet and plastic emission. well done for this creative and environmental craftsmanship
Thank you, Dave! I've been looking for inspiration; I have been toying with ideas and plastics recycling for a while, thank you for helping me pick up that motivation again!!
My god young lady ! You are awesome ! Many guys in the world who call themselves construction business workers can’t even do it
Thanks for the video! Never knew that grocery bags were #2 and could melt them down. You ROCK!
Very innovative Idea....but definitely with the consideration of some very important safety measures....but can't deny it was really knowledgeable....keep sharing.
Brilliant, I am so happy to see more and more solutions popping up about reusing plastic and keeping it away from littering our oceans. I will try this one for sure. Thanks
That's if you can afford all that energy and want to release huge amounts of toxic fumes
And the dust from all those sanding and polishing...
excellent, looks great, i love that the plastic shrinks when cooling and separates from the mould.
Thanks for the inspiration and keep on trucking (from France) !
When the cube first comes out, it reminded me of WALL-E.
Yeah. I mean we should just make a WALL-E and send them to the trash continent.
Same😂
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It reminds me of the Teserac from the MCU movies
big congrats to the young lady -- she did great --- her English is better than most residents in US and my best wishes to her
I'll never have the knowledge or motivation to do this myself, but I love watching your precious plastic series anyway!
I think you should make and sell finished products with this. Cut the cubes into tiles and assemble them into a backsplash, make a table out of this, etc. Then make videos that are dedicated just to the finished products! It's a good way to get people excited about this idea, and that will make this project grow faster, I think.
Salena Grace awesome ideas
Salena Alexander le gusta ver cómo otros se queman y usted lo disfruta.
Now that I seen the process again I might try to do a faux marble table.
That's what I was thinking. How would you make the mold and press it tho.
Make it in parts But that would a lot of plastic bags
I really do think the most effective use for these techniques is to make blocks like this or more rectangular stock which can then be cut/machines into actual useful items rather than just art objects. It would maybe be worth while approaching one of the many machinist type youtubers and offer to send them some of this recycled plastic stock to have them turn your blanks into something interesting.
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I would like to make a work table for when I am outside working with my potted plants, drawback? what kind of mold
I molded my bags differently. I attached a heater plate directly to the side of the mold, heated the mold up to temp and stuffed it full of whole bags. It works just as well and requires a lot less equipment. It takes longer to cool, but that doesn't bother me.
Do a youtube on your process... it sounds interesting... do you have fume issues?
please make a youtube video
do you use any type of release to prevent plastic from getting stuck on the mold? because mine is always stuck if i heat mold with plastic together
@@ekaterinakorzh188 I used cooking spray and that worked pretty well. You can also buy mold release that works as well
Charming young lady, thank you for the video. Love from the USA
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Guys...think about this... if you make a few cubes like these a day, just a few, just think of how soon youd have enough material to build a home. Instead of working your butt off and putting money away, treating this like an art project/meditation moment, you'd not only end up with a pretty much a free home but also a sane mind. And look how many people we could inspire to do the same. Why do we pay 50 million dollars to build a massive project if we have the resources everywhere... I wish I could find a group of people who are passionate enough to go through this with me. Imagine all the possibilities if we only got together as a community.
Just started dabbling with the idea of using recycled plastic as building blocks. so many applications. Lets stay connected.
@@themetaarchitect I'd like that :)
I've been trying to do the same thing for years. Count me in. I've been collecting trash, big and small, for years and have taken on a few projects but I need help building the community that I believe a lot of people want. Count me in if you're serious!
@@madelinemarie623 Yes, let's keep in touch. I've been brainstorming about the different uses, especially ones that would be beneficial to society in more ways than one. A few countries have caught on but we are are still so wasteful as a whole. One thing this world needs more of is shelter. Even if that means a temporary housing opportunity. But so much potential for the community unity to grow, too, that to me is inspiring. To see people working together, driven by one shared passion.
I've recently seen a project done by runners, I forgot what they called it but they'd run all over with bags and pick up trash. Recycling is great! And their idea is great because it's not just internet awareness, people see people doing things. Fun is contagious.
@@Lina-gd8xf Madelinem13m@gmail.com Email me anytime. Send me links to videos or events that are showing ways to either reuse material or unify people by cleaning up their communities like you mentioned or any ideas you have yourself.
I've been passionate about this for as long as I can remember. It goes hand in hand with my passion for wildlife (or just animals, reptiles, etc domesticated or wild). When I was about 6, in school, I "invented" more so created, a public trash can with three openings for separating materials, not much of a huge creation but it shows you how long I've been trying to develop a way to solve our problem. (I ended up seeing, 12 years later, the same trash can being used in Coconut Creek here in Florida, I was so excited!) But I've also invented the catalytic converter for a science project, only to find out it was already invented as the catalytic converter.(mine was a little different, just same concept) and my dream is to figure out how to store the electricity from lightning and use it but I'm a little weary to go to school for engineering because my attention span isn't the greatest and having to learn the physics behind just an idea that might not even work, and pay all that money for tuition...ehh...might not be for me.
I just finished building my greenhouse out of plastic bottles. It's around 770 bottles. You take the bottle, cut the top and bottom off to where you only have the place where the label was and you cut that in half, flip one side over, staple them together and do this to make shingles or sheets for walls. Look up plastic bottle shingles if your curious, they make good roofs for dog houses or chicken coops, even sheds. I've done plenty of things just for myself, I built a retaining wall out of tires at the bank of my lake to raise the land to one day build a dock out of pallets. I would love to find a group of people passionate like me that we can feed off each other to learn more ways of reusing our waste to develop structures. Like the guy who built his own floating private island out of trash (UA-cam that if you've never seen it). We have laws in place that make this stuff illegal though. Like collecting rain water. Look up Mother Ships (I think that's what they are called) look up Mother Ships Made out of trash or something like that. These beautiful homes are illegal to build but they are all made out of trash. In highschool, I found out that the recycling bins were dumped into the regular trash. I called the school board and they said they didn't have the funds to recycle. I called 3 different departments and asked how to get this talked about and basically got laughed at. One person can make a difference but when more people are fighting for change, things can get done. I want to do more than just reuse my waste for crafts or yard renovations. We have Congress proposing to tax us for the miles we drive with the carbon tax, and other stuff with this green new deal, but they can't even get our recyclables to be processed here in the US, we ship it to China! Our streets are covered in litter and there are protests for women's rights and they leave the signs behind. Why not march and pick up trash instead of yelling about climate change while littering in the process? I will never trust a politician fighting against "climate change" that doesn't do anything but want to raise taxes. Ugh, it just bothers me. My state, Florida..our waters are becoming so toxic and we haven't taken advantage of our sun for energy. There has to be a way to shift the conversation and start talking about reusing what we already have to save money and clean our environment... There is so much we could do if they changed the laws. They don't want us to be able to use our trash though or collect rain water or anything of that nature(pun intended). They can't keep their funders happy that way. But if we develop great ideas that work and prove them, advertise them, and fight for them to be legal they will have no choice but to allow it because then their "fight against climate change" is proven to be nothing more than a way to tax us and control us even more by limiting the amount of driving we can do, water we can use, electricity, etc. I just want people to stop and realize the possibilities. I just wish more people cared.
I got inspired from watching this video and decided to try melting some bags myself. I bought a 2" pipe nipple and two threaded caps. Screwed one cap on the nipple, stuffed the pipe nipple with plastic bags then screwed the other cap on. Placed the assembly into a fire I got going in my fire pit and the pipe turned orange. The next morning when the assemble was cool, I unscrewed the cap on one end and to my disappointment there was nothing inside except a little ash. I couldn't believe that all that plastic disintegrated so completely.
HDP is rapidly going to be a thing of the past, stores have switched to paper bags & most likely going to more environmentally kinder substances for milk jugs. So if you want to make monster dice get on It! Love your video!
Thank you Dave and Sonia, Very easy process and clear explanation.
Is Brilliant ide, nice to meet you and how are you? i hope Will many people be like you, who can recycle plastic would be art. Reducing garbage.
I'm a painter and i am using recycle plastic for my painting also. Here in my country so many trash, and i have project about environtmen, educational and Art.
Happy watching your process and keep spirit to make better environtmen.
I learned lot from you.
Big regard from Indonesia.
Great idea for wasted plastic bags. Thanks for ur hard work my friends
hahah super . Fajnie ze Sonia wytlumaczylas nam wszystko .
It is absolutely great what you do. I love your work and your passion. I'm following your path. Thank you.
Super fun, thank you for sharing! So interesting to see how to reuse plastic films!
Now I finally know, how the pyramids were made.
inspiring! cannot wait for more usual waste plastics being recycled into usable material!
That design is so great🤔would look great outside someone house 👍
I love your accent. Great video. Well done. I also like one of the comments. If you could make small boards and then make a garden bench. That would look so cool.
Thinking about using this process to make faux marble wall tile for my boat. Thank you
Wow!! Brilliant idea and intelligent process!! Plastic marbles are just as beautiful. The only concern is the melting step if there’s any chemical generated there that’s bad for people’s health
Hi! Another question is, can the mold be in bigger scale for example a 3-5 meter column so that more plastic bags from waste could be torched (as suggested below) and melted to pour into big column like mold to form real columns? Is that possible?
Excellent tutorial. I've learned so many great tips from your group, which I've applied to my own plastic recycling. I just wanted to offer a cautionary remark. It can be quite dangerous to run material under 30cm in length through a jointer (what you called a thickness planer). My worst shop related injuries (plural) were incurred by doing just that. If you must do this (but don't) at least use a push blocks.
Thanks for the safety tip ❤️
Thank you Joe. I was horrified when I saw that.
Christ and Sonia, good idea. Thank you.
It is a perfect result! I respect you!
She's adorable
thank you, Sonia you did great!!!
BRILLIANT Every school should be running every student through this simple plastics recycling project If it inspires just 1% imagine how that could save resources, cut waste. And yeah as people often note, better safety techniques, I cringe everytime these folk stuff plastics down a shredder with their hands - Ekkkkkkk - so if you do this at your school, make sure the shop teacher is in charge.
Have you ever tried turning it on a lathe or sculpting it like one would with actual marble? I'm super intrigued!
Wow! Great use plastic ! N thank u for taking an initial to reduce some waste ..which is so dangerous to all of us!✌😍
Someone should make like wall and floor and some shower tiles from bags like these and micro plastics. They could be reused aswell
I love this idea. Plastic bags sit in the landfills forever and this will cut down on that waste. I wonder if you could remodel kitchen counters with this and if the material is durable enough to make cutting blocks? I will try this and let you know what I come up with. I love this- THANK YOU!!
Excellent Job
Thanks for sharing
I'm planning on having this on a large scale
Guys this is brilliant, It is so inspiring. Excellent work. Love from Pakistan
i just hope is no to much plastic yet in Pakistan 🌸
Make a black metal mold in the shape of a picket for a picket fence.
Hit the metal with a bunch of 8x11 Fresnel lens sheets.
Place bags in hot metal mold to begin the melting process.
Place other cut up plastic on top of melting bags.
Place another layer of bags on top of this plastic.
Place black metal lid on top of mold.
Hit with lenses to melt top plastic bags.
Let cool.
Will this make decent pickets? They don't have to be perfect.
Great result, Sonia! Thank you. Is it possible to form a longer piece? Suppose you wanted to make a table top, or kitchen counter top?
Larger form (similar to what is used to pour resin countertops), pressed together with wood and lots of clamps. The trick is to melt a large amount all at the same time. That takes many small ovens or one large oven.
What about making smaller pieces and plastic welding them together?
Very good instruction! The only question is whether the temperature was 200 deg. F or 200 deg C. Since the melting point of HDPE is 130 C (266 F), and auto-ignition occurs at about 300 C (572 F) it is open to question. Just need to experiment with a fire extinguisher handy.
The first person yo invent a cheap and thin natural alternative to plastic bags will be an instant millionair
You're one of the few video makers that inspires me click that Like button before I even see the video.
And you're also inspiring me to step up my metal working skillz.
This is an awesome method. Such creativity, genius!!!
Thank you Sonia very informative
Many years ago I was told you could use plastic bags to make hot melt glue sticks, I just wondered if you have tried this ? Apologies if you have and I've miss it, keep up the good work !!!
Great teaching 👍
This video was fine, but there are already dozens of videos on converting LDPE or HDPE into blocks. I would really like information on dealing with plastics other than LDPE and HDPE at home. #1 plastic, PETE, is particularly abundant but difficult to work with and any information you could offer would be welcome.
id just shred it and cast it in clear ir iridescent resin.
It is job of small industry to do it properly and fast. For more info . ashokmotwani1954@gmail.com
Thanks guys!
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awesome Sonia, thanks
Thanks Dave for organizing this video! Very good, concise info :)
This is amazing! Can you tell us about the smell of the plastic melting? Are there any bad fumes we should take precautions?
it does. and you should wear a respirator
I really love that cube. It looks like a rock even though it's plastic.
I gotta tell you that I'm starting to recycle plastic now!
Mostly for plastic project boxes and also recycle some of it. Also I'm gonna sort it by the type and then by color which then I'm gonna recycle, then shred it to pieces and extrude into molds of boxes and more!!!!!!
I'm the first person that's beggining to recycle plastic at home in Slovakia!!!!
(but first I have to get a shredder and an extruder)
Which part of Slovakia are you from? I'd like to do something similar as well. I found the UA-cam channel and website of Precious Plastic about one week ago,
after reading an article on the internet version of the newspaper SME. However I think you/I are not the first in Slovakia. If you look at the map on the
Precious Plastic website you can see that more people have the same idea. But that does not really matter. There is so much plastic waste, thousands of
people are necessary to get rid of it all.
Wow, we could do this to all the plastic that we gather on our cleaning dives!
Impressive. Thank you for sharing. I would love to know the simplest alternatives for creating something like this from everyday household items.
I believe you can use just simple kitchen oven. It should be more energy efficient and cheaper for start
Dima Elmech yes but don’t use it indoors, and don’t plan on baking food with it after that
you can make kitchen countertops by pouring them into large shapes
I’m a naturalist, but I am finding that plastic is becoming my favorite medium to work with. Shocking. 😧
Very nice
Plastic is a much more workable and reshapeable material than many people give it credit for.
also because youre a naturalist you wanna protect nature by using the plastic that would otherwise sit in the ocean :) ;0
Low cost heat gun can help melting many old plastic bags
into top coat for hand-truck's wheels and shoe-soles or heels.
Mind blowing channel with mind blowing content👍
I've seen videos of people making street art with plastic bags making monsters and animals that when uninflated it looks like trash and when inflated it looks like a really cool creature. It would be awesome to make these kind of blow up creatures for Holliday's like Halloween and Christmas. Cutting patterns and welding sheets together using an iron I guess. I love the idea of making things from what would normally be trash.
Ive always wanted to know if you can mix high density polt ethane with log density. For instance mixing plastic bags with milk jugs or coffee ground jugs. Where I work I can often get old bottles and I tend to hold random plastics always with the hopes of doing something cool with them and I just need something really cool to do with them.
Surely there must another way to melt the plastics to avoid using such high energy requirements and in process producing toxic fumes ?.?
you could melt them using a wood stove, I imagine, as long as you can melt the plastic.
I plan to try acetylene torch. Hard to control temp , but economical
i think after melting plastic in that oven , we cant use that oven to bake food items anymore, isn't it?
Anush sweety of course
@@dimaelmech8600 actually I'm working on a project related to plastic. Can I know what kind of oven is used in above video ?
You have all the matirials.. To make your job easy.. Goood
Thanks from Arkansas USA
Fine work and good presentation.. thanks
Make a big block, cut into tiles on band saw , polish ... Make nice tiles for kitchen it bathroom ...
Thank you
Good job 👍👍
Very usable and it keep on inspiring me on recycling.keep it up guys and greetings from Tamil Nadu
Cool
Looks nice
It's informative
Not that many people have the time, machinery, or even money for utilities expenses for this type of project.
But, still nice and informative.
Creative ideas great video 😀👍
Polish girls are awesome. Very Cool video.
Please another video on how to make dies for various products
So, all I need is an industrial space with a bag shredder, an oven, heavy duty molds, and a large hydraulic press. Easy-peasy.
The bags can be cut with scissors, a kitchen oven will do fine, you can use pans or baking trays as a mold, the press is just a car jack but you could also use clamps.
cris10smit your home oven will vary. Do you really want to take that chance and use it again with food? Because home ovens are not very accurate, they may go up in temperature, and that would release gases that you cannot control and they will condense on the walls of your oven, and getting rid of the smell can only happen after several hours of running the oven for several hours in clean mode, basically the highest possible temperature. And prepare for a lot of fumes and make sure ventilation is at max through the hood, if you have one.
Now you need a film extruder so you can recycle that back into plastic bags again...
The LDPE and HDPE that those bags are made of is a very safe plastic. The fumes released upon heating are no more dangerous than a burning candle. Stay away from PVC, ABS, or PS though - they're very toxic when heated or burnt.
Great Video guys ! Thanks
Thank you from Sustainable Fleurieu Coast, Australia
Really beautiful videos ❤️ i like it ❤️ new friend 🙏
Please 'Don't' ever use a planing machine like this, planing machines are probably one of the most dangerous wood working machines to use
'Wrongly' and without guarding, very short sections like that cube can easily catch and drag tightly gripping fingers and hands into the
Planers cutters. I have seen it happen and I have heard of many other horrific stories. Mike Harvey
my grandfather lost the tips of his fingers to a jointer. it would definitely be safer to make longer pieces, and with guards in place, while using push blocks. but i wonder, how fast it dulls jointer blades?
Any kind of blades will become dull from either one of two things. Excessive heat generated, or a substance that is equal to or greater in hardness than the blade.
My boy Mike Harvey here saving fingers
@@ElectricalExistence definitelly, you'are the second one.
At work there were 2 capenters who had lost bits of finger to planing machines in their youths. I was allowed to help in the carpenters shop but was never allowed to use the planer (insurance did not cover it).
Good Job, girl!
Yay! Awesome polish woman! To bardzo dobrze!
A z ktorej czesci Polski pochodzi Sonja?
It can be use as wall or even roads ..hope it will spread to all country ..very useful
I would't put my hands over a rotating blade with a so short square piece of plastics!
As a woodworker, it made me cringe a little...
you should also add some rockwool
Thank you
Congrats! Well done! 🤜🏽 🤛🏽
ada subtitle Indonesia, asyik.. cheers from Indonesia!
Thank you 😊
Cool concept and great end product, but extremely dangerous to run anything that short / small over a jointer. That's a great way to make a mistake and loose a finger or even a hand! You're smarter than that! At the very least you could clamp the plastic in a fixture and be that much further from the cutter head.
what kind of oven have you guys used to melt plastic covers? does melting plastic covers releases any toxic gases?
it does. I use respirator to not breath worth them. otherwise you get a headache. the regular oven that heat up to 200°C works just fine