If you live in japan or if you have that kind a facility on your area then do it. But if you have either of those previledge then goodluck find alternative
I wish they would implement the Gunpla recycling program internationally. I know it's a far fetch, but maybe it'll be a great start for them to start collecting plastic trash for their chemical recycling solution. I'm happy that Bandai is funding research and experiments on alternative plastic, it could be a great solution, but the longevity, quality and cost would be the biggest question.
The best thing you can do is put some plastic cement in a container and let your sprue runners sit in it for a while. It'll turn into something called "Gundam Goo" which you can use for detailing. It's great for recycling and it's actually pretty effective!
its already on the cheaper end of model kits, like most 1/144 would cost you around 10 dollars or less meanwhile a warhammer figure with less plastic and no colors would set you on average 30 bucks and up, gunpla is a relatively cheap hobby kit and that says a lot considering they spent years to master the engineering that goes into each kit and they still maintain a cheap price while also improving its quality over time, if not for shipping which is double the price of the product itself XD
@@ordinaryjoh Not to much you can melt the plastic with acetone. All they have do do from there is make it thick or thin enough to do injection molding.
I also started recently and have 22 kits of runners kept in their original boxes. I have a problem with throwing all of that plastic away so I hold onto it for testing paints and whatnot.
It sure is bad for my wallet environment. In Japan there are special recycle boxes with a Haro on top where you can dispose of your runners so they could be reused in the future.
About the alternative plastic, it also needs to meet the specs of many different types of plastic used in different kits. Modern reprints of older kits still for the most part use the different older formulas for the plastic, so they feel quite different to work with and I can imagine it might be difficult adapting every old kit to use a new type of plastic
I have 11 gunpla as of now and nothing go to waste. I use the box as storage for extra parts, manual and cover box that I will use as wallpapers once I have enough. I use runners as custom stand, custom weapon/parts and even for filling the gaps Plastic also use as bag to segregate extra parts.
The amount of stuff I throw out is insane. I usually keep clear runners and use them for custom stuff. I also keep some relatively clean straight and curve runner pieces and since most of them are 3mm, they are good thing to have. I keep the boxart part of the box and I also try to find other use for the bottom of the box (Like using them as box for gifts or storage). Been waiting for the "Gunpla Recycling" thing to be available in my country and I would gladly give them all the empty runners I have.
I save my runners. Grind them up in a blender and mix them with epoxy. They make great platforms or space filler for my 3d printing projects, shelves, and stuff like that.
I don't dump my runners so I don't really see how it's bad for the environment, if anything is bad for the environment its every brand out there that uses plastic packaging and plastic containers not the sellers of plastic-based products like model kits which hardly take up a percentage of the world's waste products that end up on the environment
Glad to see people talking about this subject. I was thinking about the amount of runners that likely go to waste everyday and it gave me a slight internal crisis lol
I like to scratch build accesories and weapons for my kits by using the leftover runners, like a spear, a small hammer, a double barreled and even a fishing rod.
that is one problem from this hobby. but i just think about recycling it to make 3D print plastic material. because3d print kind popular now and it can make some optional part for random kitbashi.
Get politicians to ban planned obsolescence and you’ll make an effort that is equivalent to the entire planet’s population a hundred times over in ‘enviromental activism’. Yet not a single politician talks about it. Must not be that important then.
I know that Lego recycles Medicine bottles to make their products. Maybe Bandai and Kotobukia and all model kit companies should take a lesson from Lego and follow suit. And maybe even give us consumers an incentive for taking our runners and trees back to them.
I’m only getting into gunpla, but I’m making a scale models of aircraft and i use leftover runners to fix some things and for a little kit bashing. But it would be nice to be able to recycle stuff because realistically you don’t need that much of a spare runners
Me to Bandai: My expectation of you was low but holy shiz, you disappoint me. ( Mainly due to P-Bandai releases since Most of the kits nowadays is P-Bandai or Gundam Base Limited )
Here is a good way to save on money and use the runners. So what I do with my leftover runners is turn them into action bases which is awesome because I don’t have the money to buy the models and the action bases at the same time so this is a great solution
To be fair it's not Bandai's fault. It's the consumers. We keep buying and they keep making. At least they're trying to do something about it. But when it comes to the majority of consumers, I only know 2 other person besides me who actually recycles their runners in a sea of thousands of gunpla builders.
There are hobbyists willing to purchase your runners…they usually use supper glue and melt them down and cast their own custom parts with them. Japan has a history with “garage kits”, that’s how PBandai developed a market. You could also use them as structural supports for other models, just a few friendly suggestions and observations. It all starts when you buy the kit…
If I knew of a local place I would. However until I become aware its out of sight and out of mind. Im all for alternatives as well but theres only so much room in my brain to care about certain aspects of life.
Actually as a 3rd Generation Recyclers from the Philippines I want to try the same system we have as a plastic and paper collection so we want to somehow solve this and as a New commer to Gunpla I did see the potential however we don't have any chance this I wasted earnings and saving the planet
The problem is we don't know is we can pull this off yet Heck the other project I want to make Glass recycled enough for personal ventures I plan to do eventually and maybe not use plastics in products I may make
Living in a country that handles plastic, paper, food and general waste separately, I simply toss the runners in the plastic bin. If it causes any issues now, it’s the government’s fault. Ain’t that neat
If you've got the means to recycle nearby, do that. Like, most places have recycling programs in place. At least bin your runners in the recycling bag. Or, re-use them? It's like, free pla-plate.
i saw someone make a rx-78 outa gunpla runners..... might have just been a sillouette but it still looked cool. personally ive just been hacking my runners into strips and storing them..... who knows i might fight a project to build with them later and strips are a heck of a lot easyer to store then the full runners lol
@@razrafz been collecting for 20 year still have the first box, dent every where though... probably at some point gonna be throwing them out but not now. after i am dead probably 🤣. need to get myself a ladder one of these day for easy excess.
What i think they should do is Keep the gunpla parts plastic and just make the Runners biodegradable plastic So that the parts of the gunpla can still be the gunpla we know and LOVE and the Runners can biodegrate when not being used anymore
@@okaydokio Get this The parts for the gundam are plastic but the Runners are biodegradable plastic or Any biodegradable material that can hold the plastic for a period of time
u cant. the runners are part of the manufacturing process called injection moulding. part negatives are laid out on 2 mould halves and connected via the runners so multiple parts can be moulded in a single mould which in turn saves time/cost. what they can do is maybe they could engineer it so the runners can be made thinner so they use less plastic, but it might require more injection points as the molten plastic might not be able to flow properly anymore
@@sirfijoe450 yeah but the Gates are the once you are gonna cut so they can make the gate and parts plastic melt the gate so It connects to the runner that is a bio degradable material
I have a better solution. I put everything in the box after building and I collect the boxes as additional displays. See? I did not throw anything. No waste. 😂
I really tried to watch it, but your English is so bad that I really had huge problems understanding it. Plastic in Gunpla runners is clean, well described and very easy to recycle. It is really not a threat to the enviroment, unlike all the plastic bags you can see at every street corner of Jakarta.
But it is still a good message considering he did not threw all the runner and recycle them. And he also giving us a useful message for the gundam collector
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"My moral standards is as high as my wallet can afford" The greatest one liner
This really opened my eyes. I think I'll try to donate my runners to a recycling dump or whatever they are called.
If you live in japan or if you have that kind a facility on your area then do it. But if you have either of those previledge then goodluck find alternative
Alternative? Just keep it and you may gonna use even though its gonna be 4ever
Use cement to melt it
I wish they would implement the Gunpla recycling program internationally. I know it's a far fetch, but maybe it'll be a great start for them to start collecting plastic trash for their chemical recycling solution.
I'm happy that Bandai is funding research and experiments on alternative plastic, it could be a great solution, but the longevity, quality and cost would be the biggest question.
I can see a service where you send them the runners in exchange for like p bandai currency
But for now I'm gonna re use mine for cosmetic flare to my shelf
The best thing you can do is put some plastic cement in a container and let your sprue runners sit in it for a while. It'll turn into something called "Gundam Goo" which you can use for detailing. It's great for recycling and it's actually pretty effective!
I like how bandai tries to recycle plastic, hope it can make their kit cheaper
Yeah, but i think we should gratefull with no inccrease on gunpla price. Considering it will cost money to recycle the material
Right, among other brands excluding bootleg, Bandai's kit is the cheapest one cmiiw
its already on the cheaper end of model kits, like most 1/144 would cost you around 10 dollars or less meanwhile a warhammer figure with less plastic and no colors would set you on average 30 bucks and up, gunpla is a relatively cheap hobby kit and that says a lot considering they spent years to master the engineering that goes into each kit and they still maintain a cheap price while also improving its quality over time, if not for shipping which is double the price of the product itself XD
Nope, is like vegan burgers, cheaper material with higher prices
@@ordinaryjoh Not to much you can melt the plastic with acetone. All they have do do from there is make it thick or thin enough to do injection molding.
Biggest reason why i always keep my runner instead throw em to trash bin 😵
Just recycle them lol. Unless you don’t have access to such a service.
I just started building gunpla and I’ve kept all my runners so far, from like five kits. someday I’ll recycle them somehow.
Welcome to the family bro.. goodluck
I only threw away the ones from my first one, an MG. But I thought about it on my second kit and decided to do the same.
Good for made an action base from runner
I also started recently and have 22 kits of runners kept in their original boxes. I have a problem with throwing all of that plastic away so I hold onto it for testing paints and whatnot.
It sure is bad for my wallet environment.
In Japan there are special recycle boxes with a Haro on top where you can dispose of your runners so they could be reused in the future.
About the alternative plastic, it also needs to meet the specs of many different types of plastic used in different kits. Modern reprints of older kits still for the most part use the different older formulas for the plastic, so they feel quite different to work with and I can imagine it might be difficult adapting every old kit to use a new type of plastic
You right. Its hard to handle the Runner after build. So I just buy second gunpla to solve the problem.
Thats the spirit. Show bandai some love. So they have more money for their CSR
I have 11 gunpla as of now and nothing go to waste.
I use the box as storage for extra parts, manual and cover box that I will use as wallpapers once I have enough.
I use runners as custom stand, custom weapon/parts and even for filling the gaps
Plastic also use as bag to segregate extra parts.
The amount of stuff I throw out is insane. I usually keep clear runners and use them for custom stuff. I also keep some relatively clean straight and curve runner pieces and since most of them are 3mm, they are good thing to have. I keep the boxart part of the box and I also try to find other use for the bottom of the box (Like using them as box for gifts or storage). Been waiting for the "Gunpla Recycling" thing to be available in my country and I would gladly give them all the empty runners I have.
Meanwhile me: melts runners, injects into my bloodstream
Bruh...
Drug addict be like:
I save my runners. Grind them up in a blender and mix them with epoxy.
They make great platforms or space filler for my 3d printing projects, shelves, and stuff like that.
I don't dump my runners so I don't really see how it's bad for the environment, if anything is bad for the environment its every brand out there that uses plastic packaging and plastic containers not the sellers of plastic-based products like model kits which hardly take up a percentage of the world's waste products that end up on the environment
There are ways to re-use runners as stands and for repairs of broken parts.
This opened my eyes to see, how many people did not already recycle their plastic runners. Great video keep up the great work.
I've seen people make amazing stages with the runners, buildings destroyed and bases for Gundam
Glad to see people talking about this subject. I was thinking about the amount of runners that likely go to waste everyday and it gave me a slight internal crisis lol
I like to scratch build accesories and weapons for my kits by using the leftover runners, like a spear, a small hammer, a double barreled and even a fishing rod.
that is one problem from this hobby. but i just think about recycling it to make 3D print plastic material. because3d print kind popular now and it can make some optional part for random kitbashi.
Get politicians to ban planned obsolescence and you’ll make an effort that is equivalent to the entire planet’s population a hundred times over in ‘enviromental activism’.
Yet not a single politician talks about it.
Must not be that important then.
Thank you for posting this! It really made me think about the subject!
GODBLESS.
I know that Lego recycles Medicine bottles to make their products. Maybe Bandai and Kotobukia and all model kit companies should take a lesson from Lego and follow suit. And maybe even give us consumers an incentive for taking our runners and trees back to them.
I will take a look in this. Thanks for this knowledge mate
I usually don’t throw the runners, i leave them in the box with the manual and the accessories i am not using
I'm just happy I'm not the only one crazy enough to hope for a RG Barbatos.
I’m only getting into gunpla, but I’m making a scale models of aircraft and i use leftover runners to fix some things and for a little kit bashing. But it would be nice to be able to recycle stuff because realistically you don’t need that much of a spare runners
I keep runners that still have parts attached. Otherwise they wind up in the recycling bin.
I just started building Gunplas, thank you for raising awareness. Hope there's a viable way to take care of the plastic waste.
Well I still hold all of my box and runner since 2016.
I never trow away the runner, since some are used make some broken part
Oh no if only bandai and other kit companies actually open model kit factory/stores around the world for those who actually care
You say that like it's an easy thing to do.
Me to Bandai: My expectation of you was low but holy shiz, you disappoint me. ( Mainly due to P-Bandai releases since Most of the kits nowadays is P-Bandai or Gundam Base Limited )
Here is a good way to save on money and use the runners. So what I do with my leftover runners is turn them into action bases which is awesome because I don’t have the money to buy the models and the action bases at the same time so this is a great solution
Is not bad for the environment if i never throw it away
I never throw out the runners. You can always use them for repairs and custom stuff.
To be fair it's not Bandai's fault. It's the consumers. We keep buying and they keep making. At least they're trying to do something about it. But when it comes to the majority of consumers, I only know 2 other person besides me who actually recycles their runners in a sea of thousands of gunpla builders.
Bandai is still a part of that
Is that why I can't find single stock of gunpla that I want
It's on bandai to set up runner recycling centers in the US
Ordainary joh: Gunplas are bad
Me: sees gunpla in the back
There are hobbyists willing to purchase your runners…they usually use supper glue and melt them down and cast their own custom parts with them. Japan has a history with “garage kits”, that’s how PBandai developed a market. You could also use them as structural supports for other models, just a few friendly suggestions and observations. It all starts when you buy the kit…
scientist also said that fart may contribute to global warming
If I knew of a local place I would. However until I become aware its out of sight and out of mind. Im all for alternatives as well but theres only so much room in my brain to care about certain aspects of life.
Actually as a 3rd Generation Recyclers from the Philippines I want to try the same system we have as a plastic and paper collection so we want to somehow solve this and as a New commer to Gunpla I did see the potential however we don't have any chance this I wasted earnings and saving the planet
The problem is we don't know is we can pull this off yet
Heck the other project I want to make Glass recycled enough for personal ventures I plan to do eventually and maybe not use plastics in products I may make
You could melt the runner for repairing dent on gunpla & etc basically
Tho i save the runners cus i can use it for gundam repairs its kinda usefull for me cus i tend to break some peg amd others
I throw mine in the ocean so the fishes could have some quality microplastic 😊
I was gagging with how you delivered this. Hahahahahhhahahahah. .. i love you man
Its nice that you cover a topic that not many model kit builders talk about.
I used to look forward to exchanging my old runners for a new model🥴🥴
Living in a country that handles plastic, paper, food and general waste separately, I simply toss the runners in the plastic bin. If it causes any issues now, it’s the government’s fault. Ain’t that neat
God bless our country
Thankfully, my local trash and recycling services recycle polystyrene, so I always be sure my runners end up in the recycle bin.
I just throw mine in the trash. What do you expect me to do with them?
If you've got the means to recycle nearby, do that. Like, most places have recycling programs in place. At least bin your runners in the recycling bag.
Or, re-use them? It's like, free pla-plate.
I do recycle my runners
By using it in my Dio rama
i saw someone make a rx-78 outa gunpla runners..... might have just been a sillouette but it still looked cool. personally ive just been hacking my runners into strips and storing them..... who knows i might fight a project to build with them later and strips are a heck of a lot easyer to store then the full runners lol
I recycle mine by making it a homemade sprue organizer and action base
wait you guys don't keep your runner... and the box...
have to throw them out eventually due to space issues. but i at least cut out and keep the top of the box covers
@@razrafz been collecting for 20 year still have the first box, dent every where though... probably at some point gonna be throwing them out but not now. after i am dead probably 🤣. need to get myself a ladder one of these day for easy excess.
Indo ya ngab
I consume it.
What i think they should do is
Keep the gunpla parts plastic and just make the Runners biodegradable plastic
So that the parts of the gunpla can still be the gunpla we know and LOVE and the Runners can biodegrate when not being used anymore
I understand your idea but I don’t understand how this would be possible?
@@okaydokio
Get this
The parts for the gundam are plastic but the Runners are biodegradable plastic or Any biodegradable material that can hold the plastic for a period of time
u cant. the runners are part of the manufacturing process called injection moulding. part negatives are laid out on 2 mould halves and connected via the runners so multiple parts can be moulded in a single mould which in turn saves time/cost. what they can do is maybe they could engineer it so the runners can be made thinner so they use less plastic, but it might require more injection points as the molten plastic might not be able to flow properly anymore
That’s not possible. Gunpla is made through injection moulding. The runner is always the same material and color as the parts for a reason.
@@sirfijoe450 yeah but the Gates are the once you are gonna cut so they can make the gate and parts plastic melt the gate so It connects to the runner that is a bio degradable material
I have a better solution. I put everything in the box after building and I collect the boxes as additional displays. See? I did not throw anything. No waste. 😂
I grind mine at sprinkle on oats. Nutritious breakfast
I recycle my runners🤷♂️
Indonesian? I didn't expect that
You got choices. You can buy Ecopla.
Orang jakarta toh?
BRUH DONT LISTEN TO HIM HES A GUNPLA HATER
u meany u made the company sad
Ngomong indo aja bang biar bisa dimengerti sama builder Indonesia
Want a eco friendly, build model kit using clay.
It wont be a model kit tho. It will be a figure
I really tried to watch it, but your English is so bad that I really had huge problems understanding it. Plastic in Gunpla runners is clean, well described and very easy to recycle. It is really not a threat to the enviroment, unlike all the plastic bags you can see at every street corner of Jakarta.
mmmm microplastics in my bloodveins and body 🤤🤤🤤
I burn mine just saying
Recycle fools
I don't care
Idc.
Empty pepesan. Lu bilang mencemari tapi lu beli juga.
Right bro
gundam is bad for the enviremont, tapi masih beli banyak wkwkwk, relatable sih
But it is still a good message considering he did not threw all the runner and recycle them. And he also giving us a useful message for the gundam collector
@@anonymous-pp9vq ofc ofc i agree, i should probaly start doing that as well
@@anonymous-pp9vq cocok jadi politikus ya. NATO
You're really contrarian about... literally everything
I love gunpla but I think about this a lot. I have saved all my nubs and runners to recycle for this reason