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Hi Friends
This community is mainly focussed on developing our projects. But I know there are many more like-minded enthusiasts with great ideas out there. I also know how overwhelming it can be to develop an idea, specially if you haven’t got all the skills yourself to execute. But I truly believe the first crucial step is to share it. So this part of the forums is exactly for that.
Start a NEW topic, explain what you want to achieve and find others to get involved. Help each other out, get feedback, share suggestions to build upon the idea. Don’t worry if it isn’t completely finished. Throwing an idea out there gives others a target to shoot at. It could be anything, a new app, system, video, machine, painting. Whatever pushes the world in a better directions is worth exploring!
Good luck!
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Hi! I’m new to the project but from what I saw you create your paint from the plastic itself. Dave explains it in his videos. When you make thread that comes out with the predominant colour but for the rest, I think it is about mixing and matching 🙂 Not a technical person so I know this doesn’t totally answer your question on adding colouring pigments but I guess the idea behind the project is to work with the original raw material as much as possible.
Hallo!
Nice to meet you! I would like to ask if is possible to create a box 50 35 35 for 25 kg weight with your plastic recycle…..
I send wood boxes every week but I would like to use a sustaiable method
please let me Know something i’m really interested in it!
ciao Francesco
ASESORAMIENTO EMPRENDIMIENTO RECICLAJE -TARTAGAL
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Les escribo desde la ciuda de Tartagal -Salta (Argentina),ubicada a 350 km de la capital y a 50 km de la frontera con Bolivia,mi ciudad cuenta con una cantidad de 100.000 habitantes, no se clasifica los residuos,están al costado de un rio y a cielo abierto , la realidad es que no cuento con el financiamiento posible para poder desarrollar la clasificacion de los residuos solido urbanos ,actualmente estoy gestionando mi fundacion para poder articular dichas herramientas que nos puedan hacer avanzar como sociedad en lo educativo ayudando a generar empleos,conciencia y un mejor cuidado del medio ambiente.Si alguien desea comentar, ayudar a diligenciar el proyecto se agradece mucho a la pagina, los comentarios y videos son de gran ayuda..
Marcelo Cuellar[email protected]+5493873669470
@morethantencents, what do you mean by ‘mine it back out’ ? And no worry, this is normal, aware people go nuts easily – especially in dark times, watching this insanity going on in this morass called humanity. I make myself busy enough not to think about the next financial crisis or the next extinction, extreme hard actually – I grew up in the communism, we didn’t had this elbow & whatever society 😉 But hey, that’s the beauty of this very PP movement – it keeps you busy – reinventing plastic recycling for the little man at home. For now, I don’t see better than developing micro manufacturing devices and we just got started; time will tell I guess.
in a way the site is great but somehow im stuck. where would I find people hopefully locally who have made the tools/machines and are willing to possibly bring my plastic and molds!? is there such a place. why not. I cant find it on this site but in my business I’m about to start pouring many polyurethane parts into silicone molds but am hoping to instead use high temp silicone molds at 60duro A and press parts made of found plastic, or if that fails and too soft then pour some aluminum molds I could press into…but if I can get a silicone hard enough that would seemingly be ideal and I cant get harder than 60duro it seems.
it seems like reforming could be an all around better way, I could also use some help designing aluminum molds and wondering if vent holes are needed. I Cant even find a good video of this being done beyond in someone’s toaster on youtube and with the only purpose being to form a rod that could be later reformed. why not going straight to parts pressed?
I cant afford the money or time to make the machines. it would be great to have them running around the clock in a dedicated facility that even the air was purified and Im afraid of those chemicals.
john
san Francisco ca
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I transplanted that letter and couldn’t get back to its beginning to write a Hello. So this is a belated one.
please help me I cont have a heater element It not available in my village Mr. DAVE HAKKENS
Hi Dave !
We are starting a village cooperatice in the french countryside near Angers Maine-et-Loire
We plan to create a machine that could shred palstic garbage from about 100 inhabitants to start with.
Can you provide us with plans please ?
We have found a laser cutter compagny and a assembling welding companny that will be able to built the machine for us.
But we of course need plans at first !
Can you help us please Dave ?
Thanks for your help
Christian Tel 0033659636384
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Thank you for your quick answer
All the best
Why don’t you change the inside of the buss to make it a workshop. If you don’t have enough financing to develop the precious plastic machines, you can start with Upcycling plastic (which is just making things out of waste like a pot out of a plastic bottle) you can also educate people like that. Check youtube videos for DYI for example reusable plastic bags or pots, lamps, what ever imaginable…
Plastics used in ag production should have labels on what type it is. Contact the farmer and where they got it from and you would have the mds on it. From there you can figure how to recycle it. Here in this area black plastic is used for watermelon production and what is left over is sent to a place in Texas to be recycled.
Hi guys I’m new so hi everyone. Could you add colouring pigments to any plastic or the colour of plastic you start with is what you end up ? Cheers
I wonder if you could find out why type of plastic it is? There are different types so once you find that out-that would tell you where you can go from there. I would imagine that you could recycle it, it’s a matter of getting it into bits. I’m sure that you could go to a plant or even the operator and collect from them directly. It would probably lighten their trash load and save them a few bucks?
Good Luck~
Hi dave, I would like to know for the oven by compression, how much is the estimated time of waiting in hours to get the piece to be finished ?. Example for your plastic handles shown on the videos.
another question is the oven you used in the video can be electric that has the resistors factory? , or does it have to be a normal kitchen oven?
I would like know where can I find Your projects, what kind materials used to, and electric parts?
Thanks
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