Me too, that’s genius, because it is replacing an item that will be used no matter what but from recycled plastic instead of virgin plastic! 👍 nice job!
@@Blinkation Yea, needs to be a thermosetting plastic, fire suppression is a must with all electrical applications! also to comply with building regulations. Could add some fire-retardant fillers e.g. granulated huntite/limestone or some granulated thermoset plastic itself if survives the remoulding process.
@@OneArmyVideos Hi everyone at precious plastic. My name is john and I would like to point out that you may want to go to a YT channel called Robert Murray Smith and his other channel TNT ( thinking and tinkering). He has ways of making power by wind, and by easy way to build generators. A large gravity generator could produce the power to run the larger shredder by powering the motor, or the weight can be directly powering the shredder. A 55 gallon drum filled with water weights 400 lbs. A large plastic chemical tote would weight more. It can easily be geared down to run a shredder. Then when the weight lands, you can pump out the water to another container on the floor by siphon hose like they do in fish tanks. Then it's easier to lift the empty tank back up to the top by rewinding the clock works ( so you speak) back to the top. Then to restart you get a cheap water pump to lift just the water 30 to 60 feet up and refill the empty container in a few minutes and start shredding again, day or night, weather of wind or sun not needed. Cheaper than wind or solar, easier to do. Mechanism Can be done indoors or outdoors from recycled parts, like the barrels/ tote, large cable spools for electric wire ( as the flywheel/ drive gear) and some rope or steel cable.
Wow, the sockets and switches. I would say that is the first thing you produced, that can actually be commercially viable. No one else is doing anything like that.
@@rishav4343 Honestly it takes away from the whole concept. If your entire business is plastics, and you don't know what plastics can be used where you're kind of a step behind in my book.
@@MiesvanderLippe i don't know anything about plastic and sockets, but around 18:30 they're sorting the different plastics into bins, couldn't they just use the correct plastic from one of those bins to make the sockets?
@@lukasabubeker9453 They would need at least melamine which becomes soft at around 340'c but these are only used to make plates and trays and electrical shielding etc, and not disposed off frequently. Most of the bulk waste of plastic comes from single use plastics like polystyrene and afaik you don't make sockets out of it. Even if you did manage to recycle them they would be suitable as artisan product and unlikely for mass production; you simply won't find that much plastic at reasonable cost.(Yeah even discarded plastic has a price) These are simply my uneducated guesses don't take me too seriously lol. Besides I don't wanna be accused when someone's house burns down they'll accuse me first
@@HentaiNat polystyrene can lose electrical insulation under high-humidity conditions. It would never get certified and approved as a safe use for any electrical purpose on any country with regulations. People that actually understand about this shit proposed using insulation inside, using GTR or similar as insulator and recycled plastic outside. This guys are very focused on recycling, but their ideas to give mean and used to the plastic has been rather poor, almost like hobby-tier 3D printers.
We really need to share this in many languages. Not all people speak in English. If a good soul (or souls) could do the work with the subtitles in some of these videos, many people will be grateful. Thanks for all this beatiful work
I have been following Precious Plastics and Dave Hakkens for I think around 5 years. So happy to see you getting recognition for this important work through grants and a robust volunteer team. Version 4 is what we need to spread the word of recycling further and faster. I love that you are looking into natural alternative for plastic as well as keeping "waste" out of the landfills. Keep up the good work, Mother Earth is giving you her blessings.
Remembering the state of work when you were trying to build up before the grand prize... And seeing what you've all accomplished until now... It is amazing, you're all amazing, very well done!..
Love those bricks! A modular shelving system based on the old cinderblock + pine board approach we used as students would be a big seller, too. Lego for grown-ups!
Thanks for you generosity with our planet, in special animals and other diversity. Ten years ago we create eco casa verde in our community with the idea to recycle in a land that have a amazing and divine spring water that really cure sickness. And must to be and ecology system to secure all that. We are really interested to continuo doing so in a more large scale. we will appreciatesome of your knowledge. We are blessed from people like you that care and compromise entirer with the problem with our planet. We are glad to start helping recycling and care the system that is in a bad shape right now due to a ton of debris coming from a fume of burning plastic and so on. thanks from our community.
I want to make a full recycled skatepark and skateboards. Gonna start with boards and some ramps and mixing materials for strength and endurance testing. I'm serious. Been wanting to do it for years. Kinda started it. I think I've learned enough now to get it started and sustain something. Thank you for what you do and maybe I can join up and get something epic started. Money is the real issue, but i'm patient and will build over time.
I want in. I have been playing around with HDPE for a little while now, and I think this is great. You have done what I was planning to do alone. I’m glad I found this before embarking on it from scratch
You guys are an inspiration! I run a business and we use so many wooden pallets for our products. I was thinking that someone should start making pallets out of recycled plastic and then thought we should be the ones to do it. You guys have eliminated the trial and error that it would take to get something like that off the ground. Keep up the amazing work!
I would like to contribute some simplified ideas for less required machining.. . Simply wrapping plastic bags around a rolled sheet of silicone tube. And placing it in the oven. . Why shred if we don't need to. Instead of a shredder a hot roller & hopper. Or a hot rolling pin for immediate on the table use. Make use of silicone sheets. Waxing a table, and placing the screen mesh, and smearing with caulking (silicone), makes a perfect silicone sheet.
Going straight onto the Bazar, got a small building project, interested in the brick and definitely the sockets/switches. More power to you all, amazing ❤️😎👌
Thank you all for all the work and love you have put into this! It has been exciting to see the beginnings of a new way of seeing not only plastics, but of a decentralized way of developing. Please keep it going! You, and through you all of us, are making the world better!!
Great work and video. Sorting is not a requirement in most countries (Africa, Asia - cheap labour, easy to sort by hand) where plastic is really "the waste problem". What we need is reliable machines that turn waste plastic into something with a local market value.
Fantastic job all. I'm really excited to get involved. I've been watching you over the past 5 years. Now trying to figure out how to get involved in a major way. Congratulations on getting to this stage. Keep up the marvellous work.👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
I clicked on the video because i saw the geodesic dome in the thumbnail. My dad build a double dome over our swimming pool , a bit bigger than yours. I always thought the way to sort the plastics would be to use a centrifuge on the pellets and separate them by density. You know all the equipment you have displayed is commercially available right. good luck to you.
on 13 minute - you have Nalgene bottle on your table..and guess what - i'm the guy who is the setup and i do mould them in injection blow molding machines...and we make closure too with strap ...LOVE your videos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!WAY TO GO MY FRIENDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Very interesting changes, specially the idea of focusing on people making 1 machine and/or subjet and specialize. So happy to hear back about the project!!
Brilliant! I'm really looking forward to the research - both sorting plastic waste and replacing plastic with more sustainable materials are extremely important topics! Thank you! Also, I''ve been planning to contribute to make a local workspace later this year, so good to hear the documentation has been improved :)
Great work to everybody cooperating in your projects, this is really top professional. Something came up my mind for the sheet press: is it possible to build a calander machine, so you have a continuous sheet of molten plastic being pressed to adjustable thickness between large rolls so you get a continuous sheet you can cut at length that is transportable.
I love what you're doing and I want to get into this. I'm hoping I can do so, with this iteration. One suggestion from a native English speaker who teaches ESL (me) to Joseph (presumably also a native English speaker): speak to any audience as if English is not their first language; it's better to have slower diction and deliberate pronunciation than to have a cascade of poorly enunciated words. Think of newscasters and radio announcers (with no affectation necessary). I throw no shade; I love what you're doing and I want to be a part of it-I just thought I'd offer some advice from within my specialty.
this is beyond words!!! many greetings and thanks from Southamerica! i was really involved when the V3 came out but now you just give us all the tools and solve all the doubts that appear during the reading time.
I'm not kidding when I say check your ads - the intro to your video was an ad from US Plastics SELLING/PROMOTING plastic bottles (!?!). Otherwise, I love what you're doing and hope to join the One Army in 2022.
Hi precious plastic from Mexico. I've been following you for a while cause i'm looking for making some countertops for bathroom furniture and a greenhouse work table. Thanks for all your work and knowledge shared, i've learned a lot from you. Please keep rolling.
YAY!!! Thanks to you all for the amazing work!!! I've been trying to start a local community point in my city in 2019, a lot of people are interested (>30!), and this will help us a lot!
Sockets are cool. But it would be nice to see more functional stuff. Like storage containers/organizers. Heavy-duty plastic containers do cost like a spaceship. And I need a lot of things to get stored on the shelves.
¡Felicitaciones a ti y a todo tu equipo! creo que me puedo involucrar con las propuestas que promocionan por que son actividades que ambiental y económicamente es trascendente, saludos desde Arequipa, Perú
There would be a huge market here in the United States if you could create a mold that resembles a wood plank. Instead of using wood to build fencing around businesses, parks, pools, neighborhoods, or home, let's use a plastic plank that resembles wood that will never have to be replaced or replaced less often as wood. Just an idea.
Today I tried to download the shredder-startup-kit but it didn't work out. I tried three times. But my system announced failures. Then I tried the mix-work-shop-startup-kit and that worked fine. I played around with numbers in the spreadsheet-template where I filled in the final costs of a shredder-setup workshop. In the end I found (at least on paper/spreadsheet) an "ideal" combination. Now I only need to find the initial 16K (or investors), a production space, people for helping me producing and people or companies who want to buy the shredded plastic in the amounts I need to produce to have it everything profitable or at least break-even.
But in the mix-work-shop-start-up-kit were some costs specified and when I couldn't download the shredder-start-up-kit I don't have figures for that. That's a big pity.
progressions be wondrous! was thinking 4'x4' sheet of precious ply'plastic at standard sized plywood ya find at hardware/lumber stores.. specifically thunk, sheets/tiles of weather proofing underlayment for wooden joisted floors & roofing tiles.. also thinking it would be easier to roll thin ply'plastic sheets.. then multi'ply em to given dimensions needed.. the hydraulic press would be best for die casting, were pressure is suited to hold two part molds together.. all together, much admirations! that life sized lego wall! geodesick dome too!
Would depend on the plastic, but rule of thumb for all plastics is "yes, but not forever" you could fill it with concrete, rebar and cover it with siding for sheds and more permanent structures.
No plastic I have used lasts long in the sun; Add some carbon powder to the plastic to give it UV resistance as they do in tyres, AKA carbon black, Pet Coke, charcoal, also graphite. Paint needs to be chemically compatible with the plastic as exposure will cause it to peel from the surface and loose its protection.
Amazing thank for sharing all your Blue prints,experience,bussiness model ,extremely useful information underaprecited the work your all doing best of luck for everybody .
Thank you very much for all this incredible material, job and passion shared. We are trying to set a production line made of plastic from clean ups and household plastic in Indonesia to protect the ocean. Our NGO is connecting all stakeholders here in north Sulawesi Island that are already doing something with plastic. Question: Do you have experience treating materials coming from beach clean ups, how do you recommend to clean the material before shredding? Thank you very much!
Hello Precious Plastic team, been working with your machines for almost 2 years now and great to finally see upgrades and more wonderful work!!! Anyway, have a huge problem about the toxic and fume during plastic melting process and saw you guys have a solution on sucking those fumes with big tubes... but couldn’t find more info. Could you send the link for info or advise how you do it?
The only plastic that you would get any toxic fumes from in the post consumer waste stream is PVC and you really don't want to run it anyway because it has such a low melt temp. that you can't mix it with anything else. It does give off a very bad gas Hydrocoloric Gas . This stuff will cause anything steel around it to start rusting almost at once.
Leave it to an expert to tell you your problem isn't happening... Find a Y piece and a fan that will fit in the pipe your using. Install it some where that makes sense for your situation. the side with 2 holes on the intake side and 1 hole on the exhaust side. Hopefully your Y has a straight section, that is what you want in the pipe. Now put the fan in the open channel (or a short pipe attached to it). The fan should blow towards the exhaust and that will pull the fumes into the pipe. If the fan is too close to the end of the pipe It may not work as well, you'll have to experiment with your pipe sizes and fan strenght. Sorry it's a year late.
I came across precious plastic for the first time today. First I want to commend you on what you're doing. I live in London Ontario Canada. Our city has recycling program. Plastic is one of the things that gets collected, however, they have not been accepting plastic bags until recent time because they gets caught in the conveyors of the Sorting system they have. I heard from a colleague at work, that there is a pilot project for collecting small plastic items and bags. Have you addressed the recycling of plastic bags? I am thinking that they could be fed directly into the extruder. I have also come across youtube videos showing that diesel fuel could be made from plastic (through vaporizing and condensing) Looking forward to exploring your organization further.
Regarding plastics --- Pressure cooker systems reduce "cooking time" by 5-10 times (1/5th to 1/10th the time and energy)... Maybe skip the shredding, oven etc. and simply go to user-safe "melter" / mixer / pressure cooker. This might be as "simple" as a pressure cooker or series of pressure cookers with a internal stirring mechanism and a "air-lock" in-feed system.... ??? :)
Here in Brazil I have trouble finding CNC service providers. the people who work with it have no interest in getting a different service than they already do so they are very expensive. We still need to create a low cost, low scale model that you can assemble with parts you already find on the market. I am a condominium administrator and see the possibility of recycling and generating income for the condominium. But the cost of plastic crushing machines is surreal.
Fantastic! You are reasling a dream of mine I've had for years! I saved _kilos_ of plastic, and would _love_ to turn it into a chair, a salt shaer, or doneate to make more light sockets! I happen to live in de Randstad, where can I find you guys..?
I love this concept however in my area we are starting to see products from recycled plastic and they are three times the price of regular products. there needs to be a way to keep the costs down to at least the level of virgin plastic products. I would like to see the plastic industry standardized so that only #2 plastic is produced from here on, this way the recycling/sorting efforts would be reduced, an effort to get shredders into households, and there must be a way to shred and recycle different kinds of plastic instead of costly sorting/cleaning methods. I envision someday a cargo container liner ship scooping up plastic and doing all the recycling at sea, stopping at port once a month to unload its cargo of freshly produced product, maybe someday.
i'm in love with the socket
Me too, that’s genius, because it is replacing an item that will be used no matter what but from recycled plastic instead of virgin plastic! 👍 nice job!
yeah until it burns your house down.
@@Blinkation Yea, needs to be a thermosetting plastic, fire suppression is a must with all electrical applications! also to comply with building regulations.
Could add some fire-retardant fillers e.g. granulated huntite/limestone or some granulated thermoset plastic itself if survives the remoulding process.
Love what you guys are doing. Keep it up!
:)
Do I sense a crossover?
@@OneArmyVideos
Hi everyone at precious plastic.
My name is john and I would like to point out that you may want to go to a YT channel called Robert Murray Smith and his other channel TNT ( thinking and tinkering). He has ways of making power by wind, and by easy way to build generators.
A large gravity generator could produce the power to run the larger shredder by powering the motor, or the weight can be directly powering the shredder.
A 55 gallon drum filled with water weights 400 lbs. A large plastic chemical tote would weight more. It can easily be geared down to run a shredder.
Then when the weight lands, you can pump out the water to another container on the floor by siphon hose like they do in fish tanks. Then it's easier to lift the empty tank back up to the top by rewinding the clock works ( so you speak) back to the top.
Then to restart you get a cheap water pump to lift just the water 30 to 60 feet up and refill the empty container in a few minutes and start shredding again, day or night, weather of wind or sun not needed.
Cheaper than wind or solar, easier to do. Mechanism Can be done indoors or outdoors from recycled parts, like the barrels/ tote, large cable spools for electric wire ( as the flywheel/ drive gear) and some rope or steel cable.
Less plastic more Precious Plastic! Greetings and respect from Precious Plastic Greece!!! All together we make incredible things!
Wow, the sockets and switches. I would say that is the first thing you produced, that can actually be commercially viable. No one else is doing anything like that.
that's because you can't just make sockets out of any plastic. I'm still not convinced that this is a good idea(high amps electronics).
@@rishav4343 Honestly it takes away from the whole concept. If your entire business is plastics, and you don't know what plastics can be used where you're kind of a step behind in my book.
@@MiesvanderLippe i don't know anything about plastic and sockets, but around 18:30 they're sorting the different plastics into bins, couldn't they just use the correct plastic from one of those bins to make the sockets?
@@lukasabubeker9453 They would need at least melamine which becomes soft at around 340'c but these are only used to make plates and trays and electrical shielding etc, and not disposed off frequently. Most of the bulk waste of plastic comes from single use plastics like polystyrene and afaik you don't make sockets out of it. Even if you did manage to recycle them they would be suitable as artisan product and unlikely for mass production; you simply won't find that much plastic at reasonable cost.(Yeah even discarded plastic has a price)
These are simply my uneducated guesses don't take me too seriously lol. Besides I don't wanna be accused when someone's house burns down they'll accuse me first
@@HentaiNat polystyrene can lose electrical insulation under high-humidity conditions. It would never get certified and approved as a safe use for any electrical purpose on any country with regulations. People that actually understand about this shit proposed using insulation inside, using GTR or similar as insulator and recycled plastic outside.
This guys are very focused on recycling, but their ideas to give mean and used to the plastic has been rather poor, almost like hobby-tier 3D printers.
We really need to share this in many languages. Not all people speak in English. If a good soul (or souls) could do the work with the subtitles in some of these videos, many people will be grateful. Thanks for all this beatiful work
Dave, you are such an inspiration. I can't wait to start building my own machines! thank you for everything you have done.
I have been following Precious Plastics and Dave Hakkens for I think around 5 years. So happy to see you getting recognition for this important work through grants and a robust volunteer team. Version 4 is what we need to spread the word of recycling further and faster. I love that you are looking into natural alternative for plastic as well as keeping "waste" out of the landfills. Keep up the good work, Mother Earth is giving you her blessings.
Remembering the state of work when you were trying to build up before the grand prize... And seeing what you've all accomplished until now... It is amazing, you're all amazing, very well done!..
Love those bricks! A modular shelving system based on the old cinderblock + pine board approach we used as students would be a big seller, too. Lego for grown-ups!
This is seriously amazing work you all have done. Really inspiring.
Thanks for you generosity with our planet, in special animals and other diversity. Ten years ago we create eco casa verde in our community with the idea to recycle in a land that have a amazing and divine spring water that really cure sickness. And must to be and ecology system to secure all that. We are really interested to continuo doing so in a more large scale. we will appreciatesome of your knowledge. We are blessed from people like you that care and compromise entirer with the problem with our planet. We are glad to start helping recycling and care the system that is in a bad shape right now due to a ton of debris coming from a fume of burning plastic and so on. thanks from our community.
You guys are more than wonderful, I am 45 Years Mechanical Engineer, Will see What I can do for India
I want to make a full recycled skatepark and skateboards. Gonna start with boards and some ramps and mixing materials for strength and endurance testing. I'm serious. Been wanting to do it for years. Kinda started it. I think I've learned enough now to get it started and sustain something. Thank you for what you do and maybe I can join up and get something epic started. Money is the real issue, but i'm patient and will build over time.
Wow! You got A LOT done in a year! This is awesome!
I have followed from the beginning. Amazing progress. Have a local repository for collecting here in Mexico and soon hope to move to next steps.
I want in. I have been playing around with HDPE for a little while now, and I think this is great. You have done what I was planning to do alone. I’m glad I found this before embarking on it from scratch
I can´t express how much I LOVE your project. Please, keep it going!
You guys are an inspiration! I run a business and we use so many wooden pallets for our products. I was thinking that someone should start making pallets out of recycled plastic and then thought we should be the ones to do it. You guys have eliminated the trial and error that it would take to get something like that off the ground. Keep up the amazing work!
I would like to contribute some simplified ideas for less required machining..
.
Simply wrapping plastic bags around a rolled sheet of silicone tube. And placing it in the oven.
.
Why shred if we don't need to.
Instead of a shredder a hot roller & hopper.
Or a hot rolling pin for immediate on the table use.
Make use of silicone sheets.
Waxing a table, and placing the screen mesh, and smearing with caulking (silicone), makes a perfect silicone sheet.
Going straight onto the Bazar, got a small building project, interested in the brick and definitely the sockets/switches. More power to you all, amazing ❤️😎👌
Thank you all for all the work and love you have put into this! It has been exciting to see the beginnings of a new way of seeing not only plastics, but of a decentralized way of developing. Please keep it going! You, and through you all of us, are making the world better!!
Great work and video. Sorting is not a requirement in most countries (Africa, Asia - cheap labour, easy to sort by hand) where plastic is really "the waste problem". What we need is reliable machines that turn waste plastic into something with a local market value.
Yes it's Finally here !
Fantastic job all. I'm really excited to get involved. I've been watching you over the past 5 years. Now trying to figure out how to get involved in a major way. Congratulations on getting to this stage. Keep up the marvellous work.👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
THANK YOU. you guys are all awesome CONGRATULATIONS
:-) love from malaysia!! TQSM MaGIC Malaysia & CESMED UKM for organising SESI !!
I clicked on the video because i saw the geodesic dome in the thumbnail. My dad build a double dome over our swimming pool , a bit bigger than yours. I always thought the way to sort the plastics would be to use a centrifuge on the pellets and separate them by density.
You know all the equipment you have displayed is commercially available right. good luck to you.
on 13 minute - you have Nalgene bottle on your table..and guess what - i'm the guy who is the setup and i do mould them in injection blow molding machines...and we make closure too with strap ...LOVE your videos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!WAY TO GO MY FRIENDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You and your team are the real Heros of the world
Unbelievable brilliance. Excellent.
Wow, Dave & Co. This is way more than awesome. I really love it! Thanks for putting so many effort into this!
Very interesting changes, specially the idea of focusing on people making 1 machine and/or subjet and specialize. So happy to hear back about the project!!
You guys are awesome! Really keen on starting this and getting the mould for the bricks and geodome hubs!
Brilliant! I'm really looking forward to the research - both sorting plastic waste and replacing plastic with more sustainable materials are extremely important topics! Thank you!
Also, I''ve been planning to contribute to make a local workspace later this year, so good to hear the documentation has been improved :)
Great work! Thanks for sharing the whole process of making waste plastic into useful and beautiful products!
Excellent job! You and your whole team do an amazing piece of work !!! Keep doing it please
Great work to everybody cooperating in your projects, this is really top professional. Something came up my mind for the sheet press: is it possible to build a calander machine, so you have a continuous sheet of molten plastic being pressed to adjustable thickness between large rolls so you get a continuous sheet you can cut at length that is transportable.
I love what you're doing and I want to get into this. I'm hoping I can do so, with this iteration. One suggestion from a native English speaker who teaches ESL (me) to Joseph (presumably also a native English speaker): speak to any audience as if English is not their first language; it's better to have slower diction and deliberate pronunciation than to have a cascade of poorly enunciated words. Think of newscasters and radio announcers (with no affectation necessary). I throw no shade; I love what you're doing and I want to be a part of it-I just thought I'd offer some advice from within my specialty.
Very inspirational! Hoping to use this to help people in my country one day
this is beyond words!!!
many greetings and thanks from Southamerica!
i was really involved when the V3 came out but now you just give us all the tools and solve all the doubts that appear during the reading time.
I'm not kidding when I say check your ads - the intro to your video was an ad from US Plastics SELLING/PROMOTING plastic bottles (!?!). Otherwise, I love what you're doing and hope to join the One Army in 2022.
Hi precious plastic from Mexico. I've been following you for a while cause i'm looking for making some countertops for bathroom furniture and a greenhouse work table. Thanks for all your work and knowledge shared, i've learned a lot from you. Please keep rolling.
YAY!!! Thanks to you all for the amazing work!!! I've been trying to start a local community point in my city in 2019, a lot of people are interested (>30!), and this will help us a lot!
Go! all you need is here :) community.preciousplastic.com/how-to/set-up-a-community-point
Sockets are cool. But it would be nice to see more functional stuff. Like storage containers/organizers. Heavy-duty plastic containers do cost like a spaceship. And I need a lot of things to get stored on the shelves.
¡Felicitaciones a ti y a todo tu equipo! creo que me puedo involucrar con las propuestas que promocionan por que son actividades que ambiental y económicamente es trascendente, saludos desde Arequipa, Perú
Amazing work and so inspiring people!!!
Amazing! Really like this idea and project. Next week I will take time to learn from and investigate into.
You guys are awesome! Thanks so much for what you are doing!
This is so cool!!! You guys are my heroes!!!
Innovative, incredible, and inspiring!
Congratulations! This project rocks! All my love for you guys!
wow.the evolution. Great job
This is what Haiti needs as a solution. Good job guys
I got to say THANKS!!! all u people that made this posible.
Well done Dave!
Very inspiring! Considering helping add to this movement in Puerto Rico.
Very impressive work! Inspired to get building some machines here in NZ!
Community, collaboration = Co-operatives, co-operation. An ideal business model for PP groups.
Thank you, you guys give faith in humanity
Bravo!!! My heart ❤️ is with you! Cheers from Crimea, we'll try to start PP here in 2020
Thank you very encouraging.
roof tiles and bricks fantastic
There would be a huge market here in the United States if you could create a mold that resembles a wood plank. Instead of using wood to build fencing around businesses, parks, pools, neighborhoods, or home, let's use a plastic plank that resembles wood that will never have to be replaced or replaced less often as wood. Just an idea.
Today I tried to download the shredder-startup-kit but it didn't work out. I tried three times. But my system announced failures.
Then I tried the mix-work-shop-startup-kit and that worked fine. I played around with numbers in the spreadsheet-template where I filled in the
final costs of a shredder-setup workshop. In the end I found (at least on paper/spreadsheet) an "ideal" combination.
Now I only need to find the initial 16K (or investors), a production space, people for helping me producing and people or companies who want to buy the
shredded plastic in the amounts I need to produce to have it everything profitable or at least break-even.
But in the mix-work-shop-start-up-kit were some costs specified and when I couldn't download the shredder-start-up-kit I don't have figures for that.
That's a big pity.
Love your work. Also doing own small scale recycling.
You are amazing! Many thanks!
love the sockets ! they are nice !
Perfection kills excellence and this is totally excellent, enough to deserve a bright future! :D
progressions be wondrous! was thinking 4'x4' sheet of precious ply'plastic at standard sized plywood ya find at hardware/lumber stores.. specifically thunk, sheets/tiles of weather proofing underlayment for wooden joisted floors & roofing tiles.. also thinking it would be easier to roll thin ply'plastic sheets.. then multi'ply em to given dimensions needed.. the hydraulic press would be best for die casting, were pressure is suited to hold two part molds together.. all together, much admirations! that life sized lego wall! geodesick dome too!
Those bricks look amazing! Are they UV resistant though?
Would depend on the plastic, but rule of thumb for all plastics is "yes, but not forever" you could fill it with concrete, rebar and cover it with siding for sheds and more permanent structures.
Paint it, cover it. UV penetration depth isn’t much.
No plastic I have used lasts long in the sun; Add some carbon powder to the plastic to give it UV resistance as they do in tyres, AKA carbon black, Pet Coke, charcoal, also graphite.
Paint needs to be chemically compatible with the plastic as exposure will cause it to peel from the surface and loose its protection.
I wish we had that here at the beaches of Puerto Rico :(
Amazing thank for sharing all your Blue prints,experience,bussiness model ,extremely useful information underaprecited the work your all doing best of luck for everybody .
That’s really awesome what you achieved with that grand! Thanks for your awesome work, it helps a ton!
Awesome! Inspirational!
Thank you very much for all this incredible material, job and passion shared. We are trying to set a production line made of plastic from clean ups and household plastic in Indonesia to protect the ocean. Our NGO is connecting all stakeholders here in north Sulawesi Island that are already doing something with plastic. Question: Do you have experience treating materials coming from beach clean ups, how do you recommend to clean the material before shredding? Thank you very much!
Hello Precious Plastic team, been working with your machines for almost 2 years now and great to finally see upgrades and more wonderful work!!! Anyway, have a huge problem about the toxic and fume during plastic melting process and saw you guys have a solution on sucking those fumes with big tubes... but couldn’t find more info. Could you send the link for info or advise how you do it?
The only plastic that you would get any toxic fumes from in the post consumer waste stream is PVC and you really don't want to run it anyway because it has such a low melt temp. that you can't mix it with anything else. It does give off a very bad gas Hydrocoloric Gas . This stuff will cause anything steel around it to start rusting almost at once.
Leave it to an expert to tell you your problem isn't happening...
Find a Y piece and a fan that will fit in the pipe your using. Install it some where that makes sense for your situation. the side with 2 holes on the intake side and 1 hole on the exhaust side. Hopefully your Y has a straight section, that is what you want in the pipe. Now put the fan in the open channel (or a short pipe attached to it).
The fan should blow towards the exhaust and that will pull the fumes into the pipe. If the fan is too close to the end of the pipe It may not work as well, you'll have to experiment with your pipe sizes and fan strenght.
Sorry it's a year late.
@@raycar1165 late answer is better than no answer... many thanks!!!
compression compression as is
@@redphoenixkate which process are you using? We are struggling to get a nice product from sheet press, are you working with sheet press?
Yay! I was looking forward to this for weeks :) Okay now I'll watch
Awesome sockets and switchers! Would look great. As standard white ones are so boring.
This project is so amazing! Good job everyone! Inspiring...
awesome. thank you for the update. im learning so much from this channel that i want to start a business around plastic in the future.
Thank you
Good job 👍👍
I came across precious plastic for the first time today. First I want to commend you on what you're doing. I live in London Ontario Canada. Our city has recycling program. Plastic is one of the things that gets collected, however, they have not been accepting plastic bags until recent time because they gets caught in the conveyors of the Sorting system they have. I heard from a colleague at work, that there is a pilot project for collecting small plastic items and bags. Have you addressed the recycling of plastic bags? I am thinking that they could be fed directly into the extruder.
I have also come across youtube videos showing that diesel fuel could be made from plastic (through vaporizing and condensing)
Looking forward to exploring your organization further.
Thanks for everything!
This is everything !
Regarding plastics --- Pressure cooker systems reduce "cooking time" by 5-10 times (1/5th to 1/10th the time and energy)... Maybe skip the shredding, oven etc. and simply go to user-safe "melter" / mixer / pressure cooker. This might be as "simple" as a pressure cooker or series of pressure cookers with a internal stirring mechanism and a "air-lock" in-feed system.... ??? :)
great project! thanks
This is just wonderful. You guys are heros!!
Here in Brazil I have trouble finding CNC service providers. the people who work with it have no interest in getting a different service than they already do so they are very expensive. We still need to create a low cost, low scale model that you can assemble with parts you already find on the market. I am a condominium administrator and see the possibility of recycling and generating income for the condominium. But the cost of plastic crushing machines is surreal.
buena manera de reutilizar el plástico y que no llegue a los basureros
Very good
We wanna hear about project kamp what's the progress
Good work
Fantastic! You are reasling a dream of mine I've had for years! I saved _kilos_ of plastic, and would _love_ to turn it into a chair, a salt shaer, or doneate to make more light sockets!
I happen to live in de Randstad, where can I find you guys..?
Culture eats strategy for breakfast! Great job great culture great vision 🌏♻️❤️
I love this concept however in my area we are starting to see products from recycled plastic and they are three times the price of regular products.
there needs to be a way to keep the costs down to at least the level of virgin plastic products.
I would like to see the plastic industry standardized so that only #2 plastic is produced from here on, this way the recycling/sorting efforts would be reduced, an effort to get shredders into households, and there must be a way to shred and recycle different kinds of plastic instead of costly sorting/cleaning methods.
I envision someday a cargo container liner ship scooping up plastic and doing all the recycling at sea, stopping at port once a month to unload its cargo of freshly produced product, maybe someday.
Great team you guys have here!
Amazing bro
You guys are SO COOL
Beautiful!
nice work!