7 Ways to Make Stuff from Recycled Plastic | From Tin Cans to Wazer Waterjet cutting!

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For our last video of 2022, we thought we'd show you all a load of different ways that we've used to recycle plastic for our projects. These range from super simple DIY-friendly methods such as a tin can with a heat gun, all the way up to some of the tools and machines we use to run our small business. Hopefully there's something for everyone and that you get something from this video :)
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@lihtan Год назад

Timestamps: 0:22 - Method 1 - tin can and heatgun 2:07 - Method 2 - pannini press with silicone baking sheet and cookie cutters 3:52 - Method 3 - wooden moulds with hydraulic press 6:00 - Method 4 - sheet moulds with hydraulic press 7:29 - Squarespace promo 8:22 - Method 5 - CNC machining 10:08 - Method 6 - injection moulding 13:30 - Method 7 - extrusion 14:55 - Outro and thank you 15:55 - Christmas sweater

@koutaconnor9453 Год назад

Would love to see a sword or shield mold from recycled plastic.

@frosty-tg1me Год назад

What do you put the Panini press to to melt the plastic for the cookie cutters?

@happysunnyrain1531 Год назад

You guys are great! 😃👍

@nonyabusiness9747 Год назад

Hey yall saved the best for last but didn't go into enough detail on your massive plastic melter injector maker thing. Could you do a follow up vid showing it in action?

@greenspiraldragon 11 месяцев назад

Always make sure your in a well ventilated area, plastic gives off toxic fumes when heated. Always keep a fire extinguisher nearby as plastic can catch fire if the flash point is exceeded.

@amydavis4945 11 месяцев назад

Thank you so much for showing us the first couple of "inexpensive" methods for those of us that are interested in making stuff from recycled plastic, but don't have thousands of dollars worth of machinery (or the skills to use them). You guys are amazing and very appreciated!

@stizelswik3694 7 месяцев назад

LOL I couldn't have said it better myself. lol ... inexpensive, my foot! lol

@aicram62 11 месяцев назад

Love that you're catching the flyaway pieces. Treat Plastic like Asbestos.

@deafsetter Год назад

Love to see the low budget "home" DIY recycling. That is something I can actually do/make.

@BrothersMake Год назад

Absolutely! Thanks for watching :)

@ChandanaRanasinghe Год назад

How.. 😐

@oriawik Год назад

@@ChandanaRanasinghe *whispers* panini

@jerrykovis5417 Год назад

Uh, the tools used in this aren’t really low budget

@MaryAnnNytowl Год назад

@@jerrykovis5417 uh, yeah, they are. Everything except the very last one ate verg low-budget, with a little luck. Find a used toaster oven, a used panini press, and buy a heat gun and a few silicone baking sheets, used if possible, too. Aside from that, there's nothing you can't just do by hand. You don't HAVE to have a router table or a plane, and that bottle jack press is DEAD simple to make, LOL!

@baybabe95 Год назад

I’ve been using the cookie cutter method at home to make jewelry, and it works great! I use a Dremel tool to add small holes for jewelry fixings, and I squish the sheet with some heavy books after I cut through it with the cookie cutters.

@BrothersMake Год назад

That’s so cool!

@eugenetswong Год назад

Sasha, thank you for sharing your experiences with us.

@brantgoose Год назад

Can you please let me know what press you use? I've been looking for one in thrift shops. But now I might try to get one on eBay or Amazon.

@eugenetswong Год назад

@@brantgoose You are asking the brothers, right? They created a video showing us how they made it themselves. They used a car jack, if I recall correctly.

@hawkeyescoffee6399 Год назад

@@eugenetswong I think Brant was talking about the panini press.

@Cybertruck1000 Год назад

Had a bit of a go with melting and shaping a few years ago. A lot of stores have plastic wrap put over their delivered pallets. It's easy to come by and melts really well and is incredibly hard, worth giving that a go. The whole idea is interesting and I guess you could make some small scale items or art. It looks pretty prohibitive considering the cost of electricity. The bench, like I say interesting but it would be useful to give a breakdown of all costs to produce it.

@Eduardo_Espinoza 11 месяцев назад

Good eye at pointing out the electric cost! Heat especially is costly for electric appliances.

@1chumley1 10 месяцев назад

What if you used a solar collector dish to heat it?

@Apostate_ofmind 10 месяцев назад

@@1chumley1 unreliable, tricky, not very precise, and it risks burning the plastic instead of melting it

@peterpan4038 10 месяцев назад

@@Eduardo_Espinoza Yes, electricity isn't cheap in most places. But plastic sheets aren't cheap either, unless we are talking about super thin stuff like cling film. The shown methods already save a ton of money if you actually intent to DIY something out of plastic. With the added benefit of actually re-using old plastic garbage. Just don't expect the absolute maximum material quality, but that's barely an issue at all for most puposes.

@balloney2175 6 месяцев назад

@@1chumley1 Perfect suggestion.

@stupid4President Год назад

This is the first time in my life that I feel that I have not enough plastic to recycle....

@BrothersMake Год назад

Lovely problem to have! But I assure you, there'll definitely be plenty out there if you ask around! ♻️

@ELIMM-wg5ky 4 месяца назад

😂😂😂 best comment

@ivibivivgig6425 3 месяца назад

@BrothersMake can you use PET for these projects too. Or only HDPE? If only HDPE, how can I get me some? :p

@moejotuber Год назад

Found you guys on a random surfing session. YOU DA MAN , uh MEN !!!!!! Awesome. And I thought I was doing good by reusing sandwich bags, milk bags and plastic wrap. During the pandemic i started making sourdough bread. Made 376 loaves of bread using the same piece of plastic wrap to cover the proofing bowl. Used the same 2 resealable plastic storage bags to keep the loaves fresh. I like to think this has saved a lot of seabirds, turtles and fish. They too often fatally see floating plastic bags and film as a jellyfish meal. The milk bags are resealable with a homemade hotwire.

@meetv7700 Год назад

I always wondered how strong that recycled bench was, experiencing zero flex while holding 2 person load without any support in middle section. I love your videos and I hope more people start recycling.

@unitedwestanddividedwefall2073 Год назад

At 1 time I was recycling but when aluminum got too cheap to sell I was done with saving cans

@maxx23AK Год назад

@@unitedwestanddividedwefall2073 😔

@MaryAnnNytowl Год назад

@@unitedwestanddividedwefall2073 what the _~bleeping bleepety bleep~_? It's not about the money as much as keeping that shyt OUT of the landfills. I don't get paid a solitary penny for recycling glass, for example, but I damned well DO, because I care about what kind of planet our grandkids and great grandchildren will have to live on. Do YOU want to live on top of a landfill, a figurative ticking time bomb, with methane leaks that can catch fire, toxic chemicals that can leach into your drinking water, and the like? THAT is why recycling is important. I mean, for crying out loud, find someone that will pick up your bin of cans every so often! There's a ton of folks out there that would do so. It's incredibly sad that you only do something if it pays YOU. 😔

@JohanlastZa Год назад

I am more concerned about the heat the plastic stores....which will be transferred to your umm behind when you sit on it.

@Eduardo_Espinoza 11 месяцев назад

@unitedwestanddividedwefall2073 Will u be making a machine gun out of those soda cans?

@ItsLaurenE Год назад

I still marvel at how far you've come with your channel, your workshop, and endless creativity! Just watched your plastic bag wallet episode, i was into making stronger reusable bags with them using the same ironing method some ten years back. This was also when my kids were younger and drinking capris sun and i really loved making juice pouch wallets. * I find recently as i build my stash of hdpe plastics so many bottle caps don't say what type of plastic it is which makes things complicated. I'm in the US , i did find a brand of bottled water made with recycled materials, is recyclable and caps are hdpe! YAY 🙂 For now I've used cut bottles and plastic bags as fillers for other crafts I enjoy.

@aminakishk6571 Год назад

That melted pieces looks just like the earlier bowls my Mom bought when plastic first came out, back in the 1950s !

@shumailriaz9204 Год назад

Wow, that bench is a great idea, how cool to collect all the waste plastics from a beach and take it back in the shape of a bench

@malaineeward5249 9 месяцев назад

I was thinking of making some beach toy molds like buckets and shovels 😄

@M1N43 Год назад

Thank you for doing this guys. Honestly love that I just found this channel and learned about these recycling techniques that the two of you are using to clean the planet. We need more people like you!

@MaxGiganteum 5 месяцев назад

"...recycling techniques that the two of you are using to clean the planet...". If we as humans were actually smart, we wouldn't be producing all the plastic that we do. Oh, how... oh, how..., oh how... did we ever get along without plastic? We got along just fine. We should go back to some of those ways and save ourselves the trouble. Not polluting the planet in the first place negates the need to clean it up. Perhaps we should adopt that ideal and change our ways. 🤔 👍🏻 - Max Giganteum

@malaythakkar8772 5 месяцев назад

@@M1N43probably a scam

@davidbwa Год назад

Soup can method would probably be easier if you didn't use a pull top can (which has a ridge). A standard can opened with one of those no sharp can openers gives a nice smooth surface at the lip

@danielDayne-hn3nm Месяц назад

This is the type of content, in which the language is not a barrier, because it is practical, simple, didactic and ingenious. Thank you guys for the content you share, which is great, and thank you for contributing your knowledge to this entire community.

@bebechat811 Месяц назад

J'apprécie beaucoup votre travail vous me donnez des idées merci .

@E-hab 9 месяцев назад

The last one is the best because it recycles the largest amount and is the most useful.

@2megalott358 Год назад

You both are simply awesome and amazing. Thank you for the inspiration!

@jonathanyoung5780 Год назад

Absolutely brilliant and so glad to see so many ways to reuse plastic. Hope your business grows by leaps and bounds 🙂👍

@rcisneros8567 11 месяцев назад

Blessing. Great Job.

@FuriousAquarian Год назад

I'm really inspired by you guys and my mind is exploding with ideas already. I'm already a scrapper by nature. I was wondering if you'd share how to deal with the piles of things that were going to be trash or might be something else. The potential materials. How you store them, how you decide what is worth the effort and space to keep and what you go ahead and dispose of (recycle or throw away). How did you handle that as you've grown? As an aspiring maker I have a hard time keeping my little space from being overrun and ending up turning into a hoarder with no hope of finding anything and no room to begin a project even if the overwhelm of the chaos didn't discourage me.

@justklampfing1140 Год назад

story of my life :D Best tip i have for saving space: get rid of air. air takes up valueable space. if you collect bottle caps, cut them up. if you have lots of scrap wood, glue them together and make new sheets or blocks, disassemble cardboard boxes. use your ceiling to store thin materials. also in general: don't keep ressouces laying around for too long- do something with them before they do something with you

@zoroslostagain1695 Год назад

fantastic, I want to acquire these tools to start crafting from recycled materials like this. I already make tcg storage boxes from cardboard junk, but this is much more involved and I think it would be more rewarding. Awesome stuff

@TechsScience Год назад

You are great guys You taught us the simplest way to recycle plastic

@itsmybuddha.nature Месяц назад

Fun Fact: I have that very same blue silicone pad. But alas, no panini maker. Great video guys, thank you!

@zitafatima3941 Год назад

You are Great generation that help me to understand plastics recycling in the simply way. Thank you. Go on brothers

@julia1999rene Год назад

Love that these are assessable

@jgoldwhite Год назад

Great demo and insight on what appears to be a smartly designed improvement/upgrade for the weakest tonal link in the Fender offset model wiggle-bar proposition. I'm quite impressed with how much better the bridge helped your guitar transmit mid to low frequency information, and seemed to add overall to resonance and note duration.

@joepeanut6827 Год назад

UM WRONG Video, are you lost??

@vectric Год назад

Awesome video guys! Love all the inspirational ways you can recycle plastic 👏👏👏

@-MacCat- Год назад

Love your work guys. Keep it up into 2023 and beyond. I'm off to melt some plastic!

@MatGaaaannnaz 6 месяцев назад

Impressive idea about the chair made by plastic... I wish I can make it for my own used... But still have the machine like that to make the block and assemble it...

@MaryAnnNytowl Год назад

I just love what you do, and while watching this, and with a teensy hint of an idea from another comment here, I think I may do a bit of experimenting with interlocking puzzle piece shapes. I think it would be really cool to put them together for a tabletop or countertop, with a nice coat of epoxy over the top! (If anyone copies this idea and makes any money from it, I want a cut, LOL!)

@stormyeffects4795 Год назад

I really appreciate this video. Thank you for showing us all the levels

@BrothersMake Год назад

You’re very welcome :)

@jonnaborosky8836 5 месяцев назад

I can't find a word that's good enough to describe how much I love this channel...!!!!!

@wafflebeaver Год назад

Merry Christmas guys. It’s like a summary of a bunch of your methods. Very nicely packaged!

@BrothersMake Год назад

Glad you liked it :)

@9catlover Год назад

i love the mallet and the bench!

@keluargapimitwins 8 месяцев назад

Thanks a lot for this video. ❤

@nevilpan520 Год назад

You men are brilliant. I usually feel depressed when I think of myself as a human being but watching your video makes me proud.

@nancynorton9119 Год назад

I love this and could very easily be a game changer for helping our environment as I can see so many possibilities. ❤

@hevchip741 9 месяцев назад

Absolutely fantastic.

@stevenmccrickard1401 Год назад

Recent sub, I had no idea it was so "easy" to reshape plastic into new products, thanks for the content.

@BrothersMake Год назад

Glad it was helpful!

@kati1017 Год назад

Love the bench! So cool!

@The411 9 месяцев назад

What wonderful toys you guys have!

@ElCanaldeJGRV Год назад

Congratulations! You are very PRO recyclers!

@juliahelland6488 Год назад

Thanks again for sharing! 💯 ❣️ In the USA, a grocery chain has shoppers bring in their recyclable plastic bags and they have a company turn them into benches similar to yours. They should just agree not to use plastic bags in the first place. That won't happen until the government bans plastic.

@Dream-bebe 8 месяцев назад

I ❤your shows. 😊

@OPTIMUS2082 Год назад

EXCELENTE VIDEO AMIGOS. Gracias por compartir.

@olivehennings8770 10 месяцев назад

Very impressive. I like it. I never knew one can DIY. Especially the handmade ones. Thank u for sharing👍

@boon7564 10 месяцев назад

Y’all the future keep on keeping on

@bryangrimshaw5607 Год назад

inspirational.

@sniper31013 Год назад

Good job mash'Allah

@tgh965 Год назад

...love what you guys do!

@Mystic_Light Год назад

You two are awesome! Thanks for sharing. Thanks for caring enough to make an ethical living while cleaning up the planet!

@tharakaseneviratne6843 Год назад

Wow !!! THANK YOU !!! I learnt a lot from your video. I plan to put this knowledge to good use.

@paulfernandez2695 11 месяцев назад

Xtraordinary way to teach. Congratulations friends.

@FernandaSantos-ek5sb Год назад

in japan one thing they use little balls as a hole they put together a design iron it. based on this there is a way I use it is using 2 sheets of aluminum foil is the lids of the bottles in the middle of the sheets of aluminum foil is a sheet of paper on top is to place the iron on top of the sheet and then wait 5 minutes. then let it run out .

@JayWithAJ Год назад

Excellent choice of t shirt. Fellow Deftones enjoyer, here.

@Beatlefan67 Год назад

Yeah! Great vid you blokes! The thing that crossed my mind, apart from the fun of making stuff (always good in my book) the lack of hardwood these days means it's difficult to get hold of wood to make decent bats for the ancient game of Bat and Trap. However, I'm sure they could be made from recycled plastic to the correct spec. Brilliant! I'll have to slot this in, along with all my other projects...!! Thanks, chaps - liked and subscribed!

@ChristopherSchreib-yn1vu 9 месяцев назад

Dear Sir, there’s a new kind of flooring made out of a color-dyed fiberglass filiament and plastic, which is PHYSICALLY INDESTRUCTIBLE, but EXPENSIVE. It’s not that cheap extruded plastic beams used to replace beachside wood broadwalks (which unlike the insulated wood broadwalks, increments solar heat and will melt the sandals off your feet) but a composite material of lengths of fiberglass threads compressed and melted together. After a homeowner hires someone to construct house floors or patio porch’s out of this material, dyed to look like wood, they always have shortened cut off pieces they usually put on the curb for garbage pickup. If you could ‘cur shop’ those pieces, you could repurpose them into unbreakable baseball bats and unbreakable plastic artifacts, using diamond-edged buzz saws and a LOT of work. EOJ

@esbi1124 7 месяцев назад

Just super.

@BrothersMake 7 месяцев назад

Thank you! Cheers!

@kennethboydsr3966 10 месяцев назад

Thanks !!!

@lchristoffer 11 месяцев назад

Wow! I love this channel - I found you by accident. And I’m glad I did - I’m fascinated by the stuff you do and I love learning about new machinery, etc available to make stuff. I have been a word worker for years (among other things) and I only wish I could get a 3d builder. In any case, I’ve subscribed! Thanks so much

@marcianorris6147 Год назад

Love the bench.

@BrothersMake Год назад

Thanks. The bench loves you 💚

@hernan16th Год назад

Great video, guys! Thanks for sharing all this tips 🤜🤛

@BrothersMake Год назад

Thanks for watching! 🤙🏽🤙🏽

@user-zq5ev1sh8c 4 месяца назад

You never cease to amaze me

@giovannacasadio9600 Год назад

Merry Christmas to you to. Thanks for everything.

@BrothersMake Год назад

Merry Christmas to you too, Giovanna! 🎄

@makeitkozi Год назад

Very nicely done and explained. Thanks for the tips and tricks!

@BrothersMake Год назад

Glad you enjoyed!

@BiscuitWaite Год назад

You could also use your extrusion method to mass produce interlocking bricks. I've toyed with the idea after reading an article about a company doing just that and thought it would make a great DIY project that could potentially save me a bunch of money in building supplies. I would (as well as y'all) have to look at the relative strength but I'm sure it would work in non load bearing applications.

@MaryAnnNytowl Год назад

Yanno, it might, with some epoxy poured over the top, be pretty cool to make interlocking puzzle piece shapes and use them to make a tabletop, a bar top, or even a countertop! That's a VERY intriguing idea! 🤔

@Nyctophora Год назад

Brilliant, thank you!

@BrothersMake Год назад

You’re very welcome!

@ericathompsen8110 Год назад

I love your video and thank you for making it ❤️👍

@purple-jz6od 14 дней назад

great ideas could be school businesses as loads of kids to collect the plastic

@rustyshackleford7288 Год назад

Amazing!!! We need this across the world 🌎!!

@1pcfred Год назад

We'd be better off burning plastic to generate energy. Melting plastic takes energy. Burnt at a high enough temperature there'd be no hazardous byproducts.

@balloney2175 6 месяцев назад

Very creative, innovative, and environment conscious inventors.

@Mozes8 7 месяцев назад

Love y'all work keep helping turn plastic into better ideas.

@BrothersMake 6 месяцев назад

Thank you!

@vne-seti 10 месяцев назад

И ни слова про нагрев на костре... меня терзают смутные сомнения 😀 парни молодцы, скамейка впечатлила!

@JoJoAcrylicArtwork Год назад

LEGENDS!!

@Dimdi6310 Месяц назад

Just amazing ! Thank you for your great work and time you've spend doing this video. Love it!

@markzambelli Год назад

You gotta love Bournemouth🥰... oh, and HDPE

@donaldbedore3026 Год назад

Love it love it 😮😮😮

@Pet-Memorials-Markers-Urns Год назад

Great work! Very interesting, keep it up!

@projectrebuild908 Год назад

Great to see your progression over the years in on Great video. Have a fantastic festive period and hope to see you in the new year.

@BrothersMake Год назад

Thanks so much! Happy holidays to you too!

@tinysmallfryskitchen8610 Год назад

Excellent video. I can’t wait to have a play with this.

@monikasaringer1152 Год назад

You guy's are genius, love your work

@BrothersMake Год назад

Thanks so much!

@danlonick800 Год назад

This is fantastic. What a great way to recycle plastic.

@1pcfred Год назад

It takes a lot of energy to melt the plastic.

@klaniseolaery4390 Год назад

Ime loving the homemade gadgets 👍💞💡

@chrismellon127 8 месяцев назад

Just found ur channel- love it!!

@cindyeads4023 Год назад

Amazing!!

@aaqilian5.085 11 месяцев назад

Nice work, lads! Cheers!

@gu3610 Год назад

Love it!

@hurenpack6588 Год назад

you are the real deal bros

@havoc158 Год назад

With the book mould if you mount a round piece of aluminium to the top or bottom plate you'll have less waste and less work to do to make the page spreader and with the extrusion machine if you heat the mould you'll get a smoother finish

@SuperMIKevin Год назад

that last bit with the extrusion was amazing!!!

@BrothersMake Год назад

Thanks! We have a full video on making that bench if you’re interested :)

@SolightOPs 4 месяца назад

Awesome, u are Legend, boys! 💪

@stonehead3506 Год назад

Love your work ❤️

@BrothersMake Год назад

Thank you!

@patriciagraham4786 Год назад

I am so glad I stumbled upon your video. I've been saving water bottle lids for some time, but didn't really know what to do with them. So, I threw a bunch out (gasp!!!). Now, I will start saving again and search for a thrifted panini press. My mind's wheels are turning now. Thank you.

@1pcfred Год назад

The lids are low density polyethylene. They're kinda crappy. I'm not sure why they use LDPE to make lids with. The bottles themselves are HDPE. If they're not PET.