hjcalero

helper

02/11/2017 at 21:22

Hey Spenken, That isn’t an idea. But since you have a serious problem with that plastic, I made a quick research for you. (Dave please forgive me).

There are 4 kinds of greenhouse warps and their are made of 4 kind of plastic: Polyethylene, Copolymer, Polyvinyl and polycarbonate. (plastic number 3,6 and 7)

They are knitted so they can withstand the weather. In the case of polyvinyl they have a thin net between to two layers of plastic, so this is the most difficult to recycle of them since you should remove the fiber from the plastic first. In the case of polycarbonate they have bubbles so it’s pretty the same than recycling bubble warp.

ALL OF THEM ARE RECYCLABLE! You only need a workshop with the machines to do it. Each one of them has a method of recycling but since there is such a huge pile of them every year that will not suppose a trouble.
You could try to contact anyone with a precious plastic workshop in oregon and coordinate with them to bring them all to their place. or even start your own workshop.
I’m from an island in the caribbean so I think I couldn’t help you with that.

spenken

new

17/04/2017 at 22:38

I live in Oregon and there is a very large amount of agricultural plastic netting and greenhouse plastic that gets thrown away every year. I was wondering if this is an acceptable type of plastic for recycling? If so I would really like to set up a recycling opportunity in this region.

davehakkens

warrior

01/02/2017 at 17:33

that is not an idea @sharma-sagar

plastikfantastik

dedicated

15/01/2018 at 09:07

turn it into a workspace or a travelling workshop with the machines inside to teach others about recycling plastics like a school on wheels ( these are just suggestions i don’t know what your circumstance is)

Greetings
I am trying to make a difference in The Gambia for youth. I work with a local school that was gifted a dying Barcelonian bus. It’s dead now.
The community has no rubbish strategy. The youth no employment.
Keen to find solutions for both.
Then a friend introduced me to this org.
Any starting ideas?

xxxolivierxxx

hero

01/02/2017 at 19:20

Just to clarify (if I understand correctly) this community is intended to help inventors bring life to their own personal projects, not Precious Plastic machines.
You can post here if:
*You have an idea and want to make it true, but don’t know where to start
*You have your project defined, but need help or advice about where to source materials or find stakeholders
*You have your project defined and already started working on it, and want to show your idea to the world

If you need help with any of the precious plastic machines like the extruder, shredder, compression oven or injection machine, please post your topics on the “Help building our projects forum“

jimb

new

15/04/2018 at 19:30

For those with first world eyes, being confronted with waste management in E. Asia, is a daily experience. As you know if you’ve been here, seeing is believing.

Various estimates, your’s too, site this region as the prime culprit. Needless to say, this is taxing the ingenuity of many Westerners, and good local reformers.

Practicable product ideas emerging from elsewhere on Earth are being entertained (and even financed) to happen here.

Sadly, there are gloomy overarching factors which are being avoided in the interest raising capital for factories.

To the poor folk who gather the recyclables, plastic isn’t a priority. They get much better returns from clothing, aluminium, copper, electricals, cast iron and, until recently, glass. You’re aware that plastic drink bottles provide some returns, but they’re not a focus. “Film” is just discarded: plas bags,raincoats, brollies, awnings, industrial membranes, agri-wrap,etc. Left where it was unwrapped. Bottles are merely picked up along the way. A day of a family gathering only bottles would be unlikely to yield them $5US. The going price is 6c – 8c US. per kg. For waste plastic to be regarded as a resource here, it has to be far better remunerated. Its volume to weight ratio is lousy. Tiny motorbikes, carrying up to unbelievable four cubic mtrs, form convoys and cross national borders in pursuit of better returns.

Furthermore, the perception of plastic as problem-waste, motivates concept developers to condense as much into articles as possible. They’re making heavy products.

So, it’s counter intuitive, that we design something lightweight, and that we’re setting out to eclipse broad market waste conglomerates.

We’re going to provide the gatherers with machines which turn plastic debris into product, where it is.

We’ll make a building material which will be integrated into everyday construction methods, within the communities. It’s cheaper, better and quicker to use than the present material.

Just about all new construction in Asia is of ferro concrete post and beam portals with standardized ceramic brick infill. From single story houses to vast factories, from high rise offices and dormitory units for hundreds of thousands of workers, to the thousands of kilometers of property walls, concrete post and beam with brick infill is ubiquitous.

We’re developing plastic waste as a superior replacement for millions of bricks.

The average price of bricks in S.E. Asia is USD300.

Of course, the gatherers aren’t buying plastic waste. if they had to however, our projection shows that our product replaces $5.10 US of bricks at a cost of less than 20c U.S. It’s clear that the gatherer folk can profit.

We’re an alliance of several architects, building designers, an engineer, an engineering pattern-maker, a master builder and and industrial designer. The industry we’re seeking assistance to develop is along the lines of Straw-Bale construction. Being designed to modular builds, the product can be readily integrated into pre-planned structures and renovations.

Far superior thermal efficiency, unrivaled acoustical benefits, improved means of re-enforcement, very, very quickly erected and so less costly, it will promote itself amongst communities and developers, alike.

The machine that we’re seeking support to develop is a fusion of three: A strip shedder (similar to a paper shredder), a motorised baler (similar to a pine needle baler) and an air-heater (with similar output to a paint stripping gun 1-2kw) The machine is to be coupled to small motor bikes fo easy transportation. Our current assessment is that its cost of production shall be substantially less than $10000 US.

While we haven’t planned that profit will come from selling these machines, the projected sale price of the “Plazbalez” will allow the machine to generate sufficient funds to very comfortably repay its cost, within 2 yrs.

Recouping that outlay will yield funds for the production of more machines, and the promotion of Plazbalez throughout S.E.Asia.

Plazbalers can also be cheaply adapted to be used in river systems, and at sea.

“Public Ancillary Funding” has been suggested to as the vehicle to receive Crowd Funding, and we’re aiming to affiliate ASAP. Without intention of limiting alternatives we’re researching the 3 legged stool strategy. The best known “Branded” Franchisers use it with wildfire successes. At the present time James is detailing a business plan as a possible model.

I hope our work is of interest to you. We need support and funding.

Anxiously awaiting your advice, jim. – [email protected]

acro3d

starter

08/01/2018 at 16:18

Hello there!

@samarindo I must say I loved your idea on creating an artistic instalation to create awerness in your hometown and I want to suggeste you and everyone to take a look on

PLASTICUS MARITIMUS, in Portugal.

An artisitc iniciative that did exactly that!
I will live you the facebook link below, or just google the name

Maybe it will get you inspired!
Hope to have news from you soon!

https://pt-br.facebook.com/plasticusmaritimus/

acro3d

starter

11/11/2017 at 16:38

uszylow I think you can find here everything you need to beggin with

gauri0702

starter

16/10/2018 at 17:18

What if we could completely change a University furniture with reusable plastic ?
Can we do so?
The university is ready to invest, and we have space.
We have designers as well.
1. How do we make machines? ( manufacturers from India, please connect)
2. How do we make moulds?
3. Can we even use plastic shopping bags also?

Thank you

samarindo

starter

07/01/2018 at 23:17

Hi there I live in Monterrey, México. Here the air pollution is getting worse every day, also people are not interested in changing their consumist habits, there is garbage and many people driving around alone. I would love to do something about it, I started with myself, but you know the system keeps on growing and people keep on being zombies.

Would love to start an artistic movement where people express themselves and get to know new opportunities for making a change. I really like the idea of the precious plastic machines, and believe that if I organize a festival people can get to know it in a bigger impact.

Also I would like to make a comunal compost where I live, there is a park so I think it could work, but people here have this strange idea of being high class level and not touching or making anything dirty. So yeahh.. any ideas group?

sickboyche

starter

14/10/2017 at 19:49

hi dave
kW and dd (rpm) of electric motor of extruder machine?

asmii2

starter

21/06/2019 at 16:55

hi dave , we are new but can help with electricity generators , one magnetospings and other israel Za generator
One is a buckboost alternated magnetic resonance and electric force in a bobin photos .
And other is a brass circle with paramagnetic fields atrapp the coils and only moves the plate , when i have more photos i put in

patodel82

starter

03/05/2017 at 02:29

Hi Dave! Saw you are going to Kenia in the news #3.
Please check this project http://onearmy.world/community/forums/topic/home/
I want to start by making homes floors with the dream of a plastic home.
Think this is a global need (over 1 billion people with home needs!).
Goverments should be part of this feasible solution.

morethantencents

helper

02/10/2019 at 23:27

@PPme I just re-read the OP and I should be posting this as a new topic so I am moving it there. 🙂 will copy the conversation as it is so far so its not doubling up.

morethantencents

helper

02/10/2019 at 23:16

@ppme I am not sure how mining is confusing but the definition is: The extraction of minerals or other materials from the Earth, usually from an ore body, lode, vein, seam etc, but in this case, a landfill.

I guess I see it differently – the industries around plastic manufacturing are well established and the processes are pretty much setup. This didnt just get started.

I am fully aware that what I propose can’t be done just with these machines but I thought this thread was for ideas that did not necessarily use PP machines so shared it here.

I guess it always will come back to the limitations of these particular machines for some people. (I got the same response when I shared the fact we have been asked to see if we can provide 57 million bio-balls to a local fish farm… regardless its a great project that would see a lot of recycled plastic replace the need for new materials and provide jobs here in our local community0, all some folks could do was harp about PP machine limitations!).

The thing with PPmachines is they use the exact same processes the “big boys” do – just scaled down for more accessibility, so I have absolutly no problem moving a different brand/flavour/type into my workshop if it meets the end goal.

Please look outside the PP box, I would really like to hear your thoughts on this if the machinery was NOT the issue – which it isnt, all of the necessary machinery already exists in commercial form – I just want to divert it’s use to mining plastic rather than minerals but at this point cant see a way to make it “float” (pun intended)

morethantencents

helper

02/10/2019 at 20:52

I wan to mine landfill sites for plastic waste…

I don’t know how (some kind of floatation process maybe) but I am in my 50’s and deeply aware of the 50 years of plastic I am leaving behind and the damage this plastic could do once it breaks downinto microplastics.

maybe if we could make it valuable enough then maybe we could encourage industries to mine it back out?

Thoughts? Am I completely nuts or could this be done and how??

@treezoon PET small scale processing is currently in development via 3D print (small & larger diameters). Those additional machinery will be announced later in October.

treezoon

new

02/10/2019 at 15:10

Greetings to the PP community, this is my first post even though I have been hanging here for a while.
I am looking forward in getting into the world of plastic recycling but I have one worry, nobody has been able to come out with an easy way of dealing with PET plastic. It really makes me sad because that is the largest plastic waste in my town.
I have even thought of cutting the pet bottles into strings just as I have been seeing them on YouTube, for weaving of hats, but I am doubting if it gives a good result.I really need to know a way of turning these pet waste into valuable and commercial products.
Thanks for your help,
Long live Precious Plastic.
God bless you DAVE .

eliaskantepa

new

08/05/2019 at 23:30

Thanks for the response….i’ll check it out

eliaskantepa

new

08/05/2019 at 22:28

Hello Dave,

I really need your help sir, where can i get the plastic waste recycling machines(Shredder, Melting machine and the moulds) in southern Afria? I am Malawian and about to set up a plastic waste recycling entity in Lilongwe, the capital of Malawi.

If anyone else on this forum has any idea please help.

Contact me via e-mail:[email protected], whatsapp(+265)881936879, and cell:(+265)991317017.

Thanks so much and looking forward to your quickest response.

Regards.

eliaskantepa

new

05/05/2019 at 14:55

I am a new member but i must also say that i am a very open minded person who easily interacts with people and excepts comments and crticisms. So, whatever your replies will be to my request above, will help me so much.

Let’s do this and make our cities clean!!!!!!!!!!!!!

eliaskantepa

new

05/05/2019 at 14:51

Hey guys,

I am a Malwian who wants to set up a firm that will be processing plastic wastes in the capital city of Malawi, Lilongwe.

I really don’t have much knowledge on how to get started and i also need your help on how i can acquire the portable machinery whci i will use in my project.

I really need your help.

I can easily be contacted via e-mail: [email protected] and mobile phone on (+265) 9991317017 and (+265)881936879

claudioochoa

new

19/03/2019 at 02:48

hey i am new here, i need some motivation, please feel free to contact me to schedule a call to talk, i am open mind, we could make good interchange of ideas, send me a inbox, lets talk about this….

ipek

starter

30/12/2018 at 17:13

Hello there!
Long ago I had the idea to recycle plastic waste from the oceans. We all know that our oceans are full of plastic waste. I thought about making laptop cases from plastic waste, for mac books as an example. My problem is that I live in Austria. Unfortunately, we don’t have seas in our near. Am I allowed to go to Italy, for example, try to clear the sea and collect plastic from there? The thing is i could take plastic from everywhere but i would like to clean the seas with my project.  Can I just take the plastic with me? I am not so sure about it. And after that i would shred the plastic burn it and make cases for laptops. Is this a realistic idea. I am not really sure about it. I would love to change something, to clean our seas but i don’t know how.

ckontoh

new

20/11/2018 at 12:56

Hi Dave,
Greeting from Norway. I am disabled guy from Ghana but living in Norway. I would be most grateful if you could in touch with me to see how we can help me get the machine for recycling plastic in Ghana. I am so much interested is this project and I am prepared to invest into it because plastic waste is a big challenge for African leaders.

jmanthei1210

starter

14/11/2018 at 11:47

@gauir0702  The blueprints for the machines are online at the preiousplastic.com website.  Where as the parts/ machine can be purchased on bazar.preciousplastic.com.  You can assemble the parts from recycled materials from a junkyard, but the best option seems to be the purchased route.  It is completely possible to use recycled parts.  From my opinion though it is more effective to buy the parts.  Also on the bazar website you can purchase molds.  It is better to use hard, metal molds for consistent products, but you can make your own it’s just a longer process.  Email me if you want directions for making molds ([email protected]).  Shopping bags can also be used, but you should recycle them using the more advanced methods because compressing the bags would produce more consistent results as it is a thin material and it is more difficult to break them down into a larger unit.

jmanthei1210

starter

14/11/2018 at 11:38

So real shit,
I am starting a club at a University and I know that is nothing big, but I am starting the Precious Plastic Movement as a club at my school and I am the main engineer/ builder of the machines so I have some technical work.  I want to build a phone out of these block because I broke my phone 4 weeks ago and have been functioning without it.  I have basically moved to only wanting a “burner” phone and it seems that it’s more eco-friendly to build my own.  I need help finding the part beacuse this is something that I’d rather do. Can someone please help me do this because I am committed to actually making a difference and spreading the word by showing people how it is done?  My email is [email protected] or if you have an iphone I can still recieve messages on my laptop at 7023735893.  Please help me!

ornellapodesta

new

15/10/2018 at 19:49

Hola, yo queria expresar una idea/duda, hace unos años me incline por el reciclaje de plástico pero basado en las bolsas plásticas. Me gustaria desarrollar una especie de prensa, como las termoselladoras o las maquinas que se utilizan para estampar mediante el calor, pero dedicada al reciclaje. Ya que el metodo que empleo es bastante artesanal, poniendo capas de bolsas y luego planchandolas, pero si se hace una maquina especifica para ello, seguramente se puedan hacer piezas mas grandes, con un acabado mas profesional y mecanico que permita facilitar el trabajo y la producción. Se que ustedes tienen mas ingenio con el tema maquinas, capaz sea un buen disparador para una gran y nueva invención. Tengan en cuenta que esta especie de tela que se genera es impermeable y muy fuerte, por lo tanto puede servir para realizar muchos nuevos proyectos, así como también complementar los que ya están realizando individualmente o simplemente darles otra posibilidad para jugar, probar y crear. Por ejemplo, se puede hacer sillas con estructura de plástico reciclado y la malla de bolsas plásticas recicladas. Saludos y gracias por el espacio !!

enactusitesmqro

starter

20/02/2018 at 00:20

Hey! we are trying to start a precious plastic project here in Mexico, Querétaro working together with students form Tecnológico de Monterrey University. We want to make a project that helps to educate people about the recycling culture and also create local empowerment to low-recourse communities around the city. We have many questions about the business model and we wanted to know if someone from precious plastic could give us an Skype interview for some advice. Since the objective of the project in Kinsii is similar to the one we have. We wanted to hear your thought and ideas. Thanks!