I'm a Chem Manager for a larger recycling and molding company. And i do believe recycling must mostly be done by the end user, for a system to work properly. I like the idea of included 3d printer. keep working on it!!! And the any of the companies that use, manufacture, and/or buy and sell any item that uses plastic, needs to contribute!!
Hi Greg, what do you guys mold? What company do you work for? I saw this video of a guy taking plastic and molding bricks to build homes for low income people. I'm interested in learning how this could be possible in the US.
@@fpalomarez1 We mold automotive battery container, recycling bins, dairy crate and other battery related components. In all honesty the use of Large size 3D printers are more practical but much more $. Once you can formulate a mixture of plastic/sand and other items, anything is possible. My only concern would be the material's previous generations usages.
I'm more concerned about him mixing PEHD and PET and probably some other plastics. This not just makes it impossible to recycle afterwards, every type of plastic has their own melting temperatures and with 3D printers mainly working with PVC, what has a lower melting point than PET and PEHD.,.
@@The_Ole But we should be concerned about sustainable recycling, The energy used by recycling machine should be value for product we have got in the end. Hope you get it😅
It is a good conceptual presentation, but it isn't real. The real thing would include a shredder with geared motor, a plastic sorter with air or water, an extruder only accepting PLA, and then a 3D printer. If we are being optimistic, this system would occupy this whole kitchen wall.
Not necessarily a whole wall, it can be plausible, but it would mean creating a more simplistic design or a smaller version of the design with materials. As well as if you build it from scratch or not.
@@zyrendistajo5448 , I concur. A simplistic design is plausible but that would still be bigger than this one. I am working on a vending machine type plastic recycler. I will put up a link for that as soon as I am done.
Not to mention, we see him push a soda bottle (PET) and a milk bottle (PEHD) into this. Mixing plastic types like this, will also be really problematic.,. Not to mention, didn't most 3D printers work with PVC?
Estoy en mi primer año en ingeniería mecánica y algun día espero poder animarme a hacer ese tipo de maquinas para ayudar al medio ambiente. Es espectacular!
Hai yanina ,I am akash I am planning to start an business about plastic recycling after my studies if you believe you can be a part of it ,I didn't start yet I am planning it
For you who claim there's no way, there currently is commercially available tech to turn pla prints into pla filament for 3d printing. But for all of you who said you have to sortb the plastics, you are correct.
Do you know you have to separate different types of plastic and the label before you destroy it. Moreover when you make it as a pellet, what can you do?
Dude that is a great idea! I;m from Philippines and we have a severe plastic problem here! maybe thats a solution we are looking for but suddenly we don't have resources to do that thing
What about a machine that cuts up the plastic and stores it until it reaches a specific size. Than it is melted and formed into building supplies. Bricks, 2x4s, plastic ply wood boards.
@@zokay1121 Glass also breaks down into sand, is infinitely recyclable because of that, doesn't bio-accumulate like microplastics, and doesn't leach chemicals into the ecosystem.
Prototype those ideas Shayla. Don't be discouraged because someone else may have the same idea. Focus on what you can do to improve on the design. That is how innovation works. Good luck!
No separation of plastic types, ( something that will be a problem, because they all have separate melting points, etc ) we don't see how the plastic is fed to the printer, etc.,.
how to connect that printing in the shredder, i as a student we make a thesis bout shredder but as a student i also want to make something like that to help, so can you upload next is how to make that thing, coz that thing is very helpful. thankyou.
I worked on a prototype that does the same with ONLY PET plastic, and it’s about the same size, the BIG issue is the COST which has to be geared to acceptable prices, otherwise these will remain beautiful prototypes. these appliances are just that, APPLIANCES, and HAVE to be in the 200-300€ range or simply it’s no-go.
Kamil Gaj...como on reply to everyone? please let´s get in touch privately. It´s a great product, I was thinking about it a few days ago and saw your video which is just like my dream.
It's oversimplified concept. You have to sort different plastics, wash them, shred them, melt them, extrude them into filaments and after that you can print new thing.
Nice shirt :D also what if other contrys added money if you deliver back the bottle? i dont know what contry have it outside north europa(Scandinavia) but we get some money if you deliver the sode can or soda bottle back to the store, its a nice bonus especially for the poor :D
Fun concept. The only change will be that everything will be organic, dropped into an acid bath to be dissolved, then molecularly reconstituted through electrolytic means.
Why recycle it if it can be lessen in the first place? Like having a vending machine for any type of liquid or powdered product where people should have their own container that is reusable to avoid producing single-used plastic containers.
Nice concept but I think the necessary steps to separate the different types of plastic would be to complicated for a home machine. Even the big Recycling plants still have problems with automatic sorting of plastics.
Why? Shredders like this are being built all over the world, and small 3D printers are shown off at every other electronics convention. Obviously he's skipping steps here, but that doesn't mean it's fake.
@@larslarsgard this video is a fake of what a real one COULD be like, and that is coming close to lying to people, which causes instant anger with out realizing this might have just been a project video for a class or something.
@@MrV902 the video is of a FAKE unit, please stop using logical fallacies here, just because the video is of a fake one does not mean that real ones don't exist, :) This video needs to be looked at as a scifi movie, where you know full well the tech in the movie exists somewhere but the ones in the movie are just movie magic because it is easier to fake it for the story sake, than to build a real one, then film it. His title is misleading unfortunately causing negative feelings in people, I know the sentiment because things like this, to outright fakery and kickstarters that never deliver are hindering my gaining financial help building up the tech for my version of a 3D printer with 10 times the speed and more refined processing to allow printing parts like CPUs, transistors, capacitors along with the conductive traces and boards for it all to populate, while printing out the plastic case on say something like a Cell phone, Let along the recycling system that will use a couple tricks of static charges, weight, and dual frequency photons to break down things and sort them into nano particles to be used by the printer, thus throw in old cell phone, break it down, then use it to print out a new one. only lost resource is power at that point. :)
@@FrogiAli Let's be clear that I was speaking about that particular device in the video. "it actually is" I'm going to take as you think it's a real machine. I still say no. "may take more complex machinery" I interpret as you acknowledge it isn't a real machine. I agree. "but it's definitely possible", two words that never belong next to each other are DEFINITELY and POSSIBLE. I read this statement as you acknowledge it not being real by calling it possible. I agree. For the rest of this comment, see previous comment.
@@bruhbruh9504 It doesn't matter that the video is edited. You can't put plastic in a shredder and then immediately 3D print with it. The technology doesn't exist. This is not a real machine. Find another example of a machine for the private consumer that makes any plastic ready to print in one easy step. Doesn't exist. And watch your mouth.
@@alowitiousmckay5563 u arent the most gifted one in the family are you the video is edited which means it might have taken hours to shred the plastic and then melt it and then print a fricking product and yes you are a dum fuk
Hey everyone, this is just a concept video. Maybe for a school project. We don't have technology this efficient as yet...maybe someday soon though. I give it at least 5 years
What are you talking about? Machines similar to this exist all over the world. "Just believe me, I know what I'm talking about" isn't a valid counterpoint. Several videos on RU-vid show off small plastic crushers AND small 3D printers.
@@MrV902 Ooh, link me to them please! I've been looking for one like this for a while now. So far Precious Plastic's (with their extruders and molds and turning recycled plastic to filament) is the closest I've seen. But if there are more efficient ones especially ones of this size and simplicity I wanna check them out. Please post links here, or even names I can google. I want to get started recycling on a personal scale ASAP.
