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.
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.
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!!
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 :)
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'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.
Very innovative Idea....but definitely with the consideration of some very important safety measures....but can't deny it was really knowledgeable....keep sharing.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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).
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!
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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 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!!
this process inspired me alot! do you worry with the very small pieces though that breakaway during the sanding, polishing, and grinding process? isnt that micro plastics, how do you make sure those small pieces are still recycled as well. thank you!
I think you could use a vacuum cleaner after finishing each phase of the manufacturing process. That way, you would end up collecting those microplastics and then emptying them into a container for later use.
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.
this looks amazing and very well executed video BUT you failed to warn people of fumes and health and safety measures. Just thought of highlighting that in case some crazy person tries to do this in their own kitchen u.u
Hi Sonia, great video, but we beginners need some more info about the melting. An indication of the length of time between film segments. Did the process from the first hand full to the last take 10 minutes or was it 4 hours?There are a lot of insignificant comments about waste of power, and resources, ignoire them. They haven't grasped the picture of recycle and reuse. However please do take more care with the machinery watching you use the jointer made me shiver. Good work and keep on supporting Precious Plastics. West Scotland
Other channels that have done it put the temperature to melt the plastic at around 350F or 175C. From my experience, the plastic bags should melt in a few minutes. Milk jugs are also made of HDPE and it takes around 15 minutes for it to melt down when you cut it up, so plastic bags shouldnt take long at all.
@@JP-xd6fm You know, I'm really tired of the rest of the world acting like the United States is some back woods undeveloped country bc we don't use the metric system! Have you been here? In what way are we undeveloped? The people of this country are not to blame for it and saying things like what you said are nasty, very rude and uncalled for! When I was in elementary school we started to learn the metric system bc we were told our country would be switching over to it. Well we never did. I don't know what happened but it is not the citizens of this country that made that decision. Whether it was the President I don't know but this snobbish behavior is ridiculous. Why do you think that putting down the USA is something that needs to be done? How would you like it if your country was the only one who didn't use the metric system through no fault of your own and every time ever you read through comments people were putting you and your country down? No matter what things go on in my country, I love it and am a patriot and take these things as racist bc that's exactly what they are! Kindly think before you speak so flippant in the future!
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.
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 !!!
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.
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.
This is fantastic. Really love what you have done here. You took a great deal of time and thought to put this together. Not to mention all the work that went into coming up with the idea. Would sugest that you mention what grit sandpaper, grinding and type of polishing wheel you used. Would you consider how you might make a one solid table top for something like that? Obviously the oven could limit your ability of size, along with the planer. Instead of the bowl what about making a larger square mold that fits into the oven?
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
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.
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!!
recycle, reuse, up-cycle and save the planet and plastic emission. well done for this creative and environmental craftsmanship
My god young lady ! You are awesome ! Many guys in the world who call themselves construction business workers can’t even do it
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 :)
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) !
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
It is absolutely great what you do. I love your work and your passion. I'm following your path. Thank you.
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.
He made a plastic kippa for me !! Very good work Dave !!
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
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.
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
inspiring! cannot wait for more usual waste plastics being recycled into usable material!
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
That design is so great🤔would look great outside someone house 👍
Super fun, thank you for sharing! So interesting to see how to reuse plastic films!
Charming young lady, thank you for the video. Love from the USA
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Now I finally know, how the pyramids were made.
It is a perfect result! I respect you!
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).
hahah super . Fajnie ze Sonia wytlumaczylas nam wszystko .
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!
Thinking about using this process to make faux marble wall tile for my boat. Thank you
Guys this is brilliant, It is so inspiring. Excellent work. Love from Pakistan
i just hope is no to much plastic yet in Pakistan 🌸
Thanks Dave for organizing this video! Very good, concise info :)
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.
Christ and Sonia, good idea. Thank you.
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.
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.
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.
This is an awesome method. Such creativity, genius!!!
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.
Please research safe techniques for using a jointer! Interesting technique though.
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
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 ?
thank you, Sonia you did great!!!
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.
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
Mind blowing channel with mind blowing content👍
Have you ever tried turning it on a lathe or sculpting it like one would with actual marble? I'm super intrigued!
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?
Creative ideas great video 😀👍
She's adorable
Wow! Great use plastic ! N thank u for taking an initial to reduce some waste ..which is so dangerous to all of us!✌😍
Very usable and it keep on inspiring me on recycling.keep it up guys and greetings from Tamil Nadu
Excellent Job
Thanks for sharing
The first person yo invent a cheap and thin natural alternative to plastic bags will be an instant millionair
Someone should make like wall and floor and some shower tiles from bags like these and micro plastics. They could be reused aswell
I wonder if this can be made into floor tiles?
Wonder if this similar to making plastic pallets then? Love the concept
yes, a Russian guy has made them about 10 years ago, still does, and has dump trucks driving over them!!
There is a company that does this, better future factory, the product is called "new marble"
@@baskolkman4072 thanks for telling us. I think your comment should be on top of all comments. will research the product now
India is using it to make roads.
I'm planning on having this on a large scale
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?
awesome Sonia, thanks
Thank you Sonia very informative
Wow, we could do this to all the plastic that we gather on our cleaning dives!
Olá!!! Estou maravilhada com os projetos que cada um de vocês vem apresentando, tenho aprendido,muito com cada um de vocês...GRATIDÃO!!!🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🌻🌻🌻
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Fine work and good presentation.. thanks
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!!
This is incredible!
Polish girls are awesome. Very Cool video.
Good Job, girl!
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...
Great Video guys ! Thanks
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
Beautiful craftsmanship, and outcome!! Thank you for the video!!
this process inspired me alot! do you worry with the very small pieces though that breakaway during the sanding, polishing, and grinding process? isnt that micro plastics, how do you make sure those small pieces are still recycled as well. thank you!
I think you could use a vacuum cleaner after finishing each phase of the manufacturing process. That way, you would end up collecting those microplastics and then emptying them into a container for later use.
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.
this looks amazing and very well executed video BUT you failed to warn people of fumes and health and safety measures. Just thought of highlighting that in case some crazy person tries to do this in their own kitchen u.u
@JmeTN thank you! that makes sense :D
This is amazing! WOW! They are beautiful! SHARING!
Hi Sonia, great video, but we beginners need some more info about the melting. An indication of the length of time between film segments. Did the process from the first hand full to the last take 10 minutes or was it 4 hours?There are a lot of insignificant comments about waste of power, and resources, ignoire them. They haven't grasped the picture of recycle and reuse. However please do take more care with the machinery watching you use the jointer made me shiver. Good work and keep on supporting Precious Plastics. West Scotland
Other channels that have done it put the temperature to melt the plastic at around 350F or 175C. From my experience, the plastic bags should melt in a few minutes. Milk jugs are also made of HDPE and it takes around 15 minutes for it to melt down when you cut it up, so plastic bags shouldnt take long at all.
She said she set the oven at 200 degrees. I assume she meant Celsius, since she's not American.
@@tiffanyhackerspace8377 Of course!, Celsius is what we use in developed countries! ;)
Tiffany Hackerspace yes, but one must wonder and I wish that she would clarify
@@JP-xd6fm You know, I'm really tired of the rest of the world acting like the United States is some back woods undeveloped country bc we don't use the metric system! Have you been here? In what way are we undeveloped? The people of this country are not to blame for it and saying things like what you said are nasty, very rude and uncalled for! When I was in elementary school we started to learn the metric system bc we were told our country would be switching over to it. Well we never did. I don't know what happened but it is not the citizens of this country that made that decision. Whether it was the President I don't know but this snobbish behavior is ridiculous. Why do you think that putting down the USA is something that needs to be done? How would you like it if your country was the only one who didn't use the metric system through no fault of your own and every time ever you read through comments people were putting you and your country down? No matter what things go on in my country, I love it and am a patriot and take these things as racist bc that's exactly what they are! Kindly think before you speak so flippant in the future!
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.
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 !!!
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.
What was the point of melting whole bags and then adding some shredded bags at the end?
probably for the marbling effect
great stuff, love watching your work.
It can be use as wall or even roads ..hope it will spread to all country ..very useful
you can make kitchen countertops by pouring them into large shapes
This was awesome so how are the odors it emits I see the bay is open so in home isn't a good idea
Thank you for the video. I really like this idea. was wondering if you could use more complex molds?
You have all the matirials.. To make your job easy.. Goood
Congrats! Well done! 🤜🏽 🤛🏽
I think the wheel in the Jack is too small.
You've too apply too much torque to achieve the same result.
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.
Great teaching 👍
This is fantastic. Really love what you have done here. You took a great deal of time and thought to put this together. Not to mention all the work that went into coming up with the idea.
Would sugest that you mention what grit sandpaper, grinding and type of polishing wheel you used.
Would you consider how you might make a one solid table top for something like that? Obviously the oven could limit your ability of size, along with the planer. Instead of the bowl what about making a larger square mold that fits into the oven?
Thanks guys!
Really beautiful videos ❤️ i like it ❤️ new friend 🙏