Monthly News #4 - Welding in Kenya, PET research & flying the drone on a landfill 

Dave, you should try to turn the plastic into inch and a half pipes to use for plumbing. then you can turn the garbage into plumbing products for toilets or water supply

Dave, you and the team are are good hearted folks, keep up the good work.

Hello Dave. You are doing a tremendous job. Not only on the creative side around plastic, but also by increasing the awareness on its negative environmental impact. Plastic doesn't just end up as harmful trash. It will recirculate via the food chain and very likely it will have a negative effect on life in general. Keep on going, and I am sure that you will make our planet a better place. Thx.

Dave, you are a blessing to the world! Hope to have you in Lagos Nigeria sometime! And God bless you greatly.

Love it. Also don't forget to make billet plastics for sale. CNC machining of plastics could be a way forward as well. Making larger 30-50cm x1m long billet chunks of plastic could open a whole new world of manufacturing for everyone. Also one more thing to consider when making those molds. Flower pots are fine and dandy, but you could make hybrid bricks also to make green homes that are put together with very little cement/or effort. Just reusing plastic trash while being fairly energy friendly, think lego but on a much larger scale.

I honestly cried when I watched the video... no need for words but actions. Greets and respect from Precious Plastic Greece

Dave, you are a blessed person. changing the life of many people.

great job dave , 56 yr old from minnesota I'm jumping happy you are helping them start this there is so much plastic in land fills all i see is a lot of jobs siting in land fills. that could be products

Hello from Russia, Doing good job guys. Recycling and getting people involved. We are also planning to start recycling here in South of Russia, using high precision molds to make good products. I d like to invite Dave one day to our workplace. We a got a lot of metalworking facilities left after Soviet Union collapse in the city of Krasnodar. You re welcome here !

Awesome, east Africa needs these projects!!! Love your videos brother!

hi my friend, great job congratulations from argentina!!! the world need more people like you

This is really inspiring and cool. It's awesome to see you helping all these people and all the smiles that are going around.

You guys are awesome. With all the craziness going on in the world, you give me hope for the future. Thanks.

Awesome! Keep up with the great work

Loved it!! Great work!

you are changing the world!

you folks are awesome!

I was hoping for an update this week. Keep it up!

Awesome Work.

Lekker bezig Dave, super inspirerend!

Great Video........

Congrats for for reaching 100 000 subs! ;)

Thank you Dave, I love what you are doing.

Very good job, good luck my friend

Goed bezig guys. You guys are an inspiration to all.

Awesome work guys, thanks for the inspiration. I love watching your videos.

i love ur videos☺.. you inspired a lot of people!!!💪💪

Gefeliciteerd met 100.000 abonnees alweer!

yeaaahhh! A new update!

welcome to kenya Dave... u inspire me a lot... 👍

Great effort Dave! I love what you're doing!

Amazing to see those aerial images of the plastic mountains. Thanks for your work!

Great work dave and the team! Congrats on the achievements and 100000 subs!

You guys are amazing; such kindness and benevolence towards these people who have much less than you do (not in a bad way just they were born into a country where most of the population is under the poverty line). Please keep on giving to the world :)

am a kenyan and thanks for the project planing to visit kisii soon to see

Finalyy another video :))))) big fan here

the pet plastic forming is an interesting idea!

I'm going to make this comment without looking to see if you've already done it, but there is an idea that you can use PET bottles to make joints, especially for wood and plastic members. Cut both ends from a bottle, leaving a cylinder. Insert two poles of wood. Heatshrink the pair. They are now joined! Various joinery geometries can be useful here. Micaella Pedros is the only person who I've seen using this idea. No one else appears to have picked it up.

Saw a video at one point about houses with walls made out of pet bottles. Thought it was a pretty neat idea.

Melt Pet bottles into washers! perfect material for it, good replacement for nylon.

I wish I had the same job as you

Cut around the handle of a laundry detergent bottle, you have a door handle!

Hey I follow your videos didn’t know you came to kenya aaaagrrrrrrrh

Dudes, I got a 2x2 at the local Home Depot that was just as warped as that board!

hola soy apasionado de los buenos proyectos

Hola! He visto la tecnica de calentar el plastico alrededor de madera en uniones para muebleria y todo tipo de cosas...resulta que si unes dos pedazos de madera con irregularidades, el plastico se aferrara a esas irregularidades de la madera convirtiendose en una union permanente y muy fuerte!

With respect and greetings from Russia!

Great vids! But on a practical note, with the technology you have developed and the resources you have access to, can you make larger solid objets? I do not mean like a brick or tile (you can use the oven for that) I mean like a large sheet of plastic to make a door, for example. Or a fence post. Processing large volumes of plastic. I could think of a couple of ways to do it, by disassembling ovens and have the resistors underneath a large mold in the shape of a door and slowly heat the plastic, then press it with a car jack. Would you say that is possible?

wow , good job Dave and the the team i am fro northern part of Uganda i need your help to in order to set one in Uganda thanks i hope to hear from you soon.

shrink wrap for diy battery projects out of bottles just sorurce and sort out sizing is a business in itself.

There is a site I saw using PETE as heat shrink to improvise a size reducing adapter on a dust collection system in a shop. It also seems that some repair can be made on a leaf blower where the tube has snapped off of the motor. I don't think this stuff is suitable under much pressure without sealants though. I have no idea if this stuff is good for electrical insulation, but hope to find out. It looks like PETE might work as an abrasion barrier for things that don't get heavy use, and is easily replaced.

Yeih, no dislikes!

Mayby you can build all in one machine that shreds, melts and extrudes plastic?

I have been thinking about PET plastic too. Bottles are 3 parts; spout, bottom, and middle. The middle seems most useful. 2-liter bottles that are completely flat, could this be used like plexiglass? Also, I've thought about using this plastic to make pipes, gutters, or for general water moving. maybe you could make a heat press machine? I've tried the hot air and it only shrinks to a certain size before distorting and burning. with a heat press, you could form fan turbines out of flat plastic, as long as you have the form to press it into while at ideal temperature. Little finicky, but well worth it since the plastic is so abundant and few know what to do with it yet. Also, could it be ground into powder, then heat pressed? it never gets molten like #2, so heat would have to be distributed evenly, but it beworth trying out. Thank you guys for doing what you're doing and keep up the good work!!

great developments! brilliant to see how the entire project takes off just one question: why do you use plastic tape to put the letters up behind you? doesnt it become waste right once you finished shooting? if we dont make a consumption transition we will never be able to really tackle the problem all toghether are we? please reply!

Hello... Could you show us the instrument that you used yo cut the bottle, I'v been doing it with a sissors but it isn't easy. Thanks a lot

I'd love to work on some kind of "landfill mining robot" that uses advanced computer vision and sensors to identify materials and recycle them. An autonomous robot vehicle that picks up trash, cuts it in into pieces and sorts it automatically to fully remove the landfills and recycle everything. Still science fiction, but I think with current advances in computer vision this could become reality. Then landfills will become resources.

great stuff DAve and the PP's community! I like to share the word about PP but usually run into difficulties sharing the videos with no internet. is there a easy way to download these videos for offline?

Could you make relatively strong I beams?

when are you coming to Tanzania dave??

There is a video of King of Random on plastic bottle ropes . check it out its quite cool

And what is there to do for the centrifuge?

Hey Dave, You and your team are doing amazing work. I would like to get a bunch of plastic grips made that I can use for the core of the wire wrapped sword grips that I produce. How can I reach you? Live chat is better as I have Parkinson's and typing takes a long time for me.

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Wow, the dude at 10:00 is great! Would also love to help working on some plastic project with you all together! :)

well done keep it up .in Russia, too, look you!

Dave what is the best way to get a message to you?

Hola Dave como estas? primero que todo quiero felicitarte por lo que haces, estas logrando algo que superara generaciones y eso es algo muy pero muy grande, ojala pudieras leer este mensaje por que tengo una idea que disminuirá los residuos a nivel mundial y les dará una mejor economía a las poblaciones latinoamericanas, yo soy de Venezuela pero actualmente vivo en Perú y muchos de los productos que aquí se consumen son importados desde china y estados unidos (no es un secreto) en su mayoría, hago referencia a autos, juguetes, sillas, mesas, ventiladores, no he hecho una gran investigación pero he preguntado a muchos empresarios locales, por que es mas rápido, menos compromiso, menos personal del que hacerse cargo, y esto no solo pasa aquí, también pasa me atrevo a decir en el 80% de la población latinoamericana lo que trae consigo una gran cantidad de contaminación, contaminación, contaminación por que en su mayoría estos productos son desechables, con un tiempo de caducidad de 3 meses en promedio, la mayoría de los residuos que pueden ser reciclados se envían nuevamente a estos países productores para que nos puedan vender nuevamente productos desechables. Esto no es lógico, el comercio en latinoamerica es muy corrupto, los comerciantes no están pensando en el mañana solo en lo que mas rápido enriquezca, claro, así funciona el mundo , pero que tal si no fuera así?, que tal si pudiéramos hacer algo sin dañar a nadie? que tal si cambiáramos este sistema? amigo DAVE tu puedes ayudarme a hacer algo, pero "tienes una audiencia" esta audiencia piensa de la misma manera que tu y que yo podemos hacer algo y se como hacerlo, yo tenia una empresa reciclaje en Venezuela con la cual hacíamos cuadernos ecológicos entre otros proyectos desde hace 8 años, pero ahora no estoy haciendo nada por que salí de mi país. Si alguien le interesa la idea que tengo y creen que pueden ayudarme a alzar mi voz y llegar a DAVE para proponerle este plan, ayúdeme... mi correo es ideaverdeac@gmail.com

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I want to come

you could make dental floss out of the plastic strings

From morocco

dear I need plastic cutter

hi

Sar mujhe bhi recycling plant chalu karna hai uske liye Mujhe aapki jarurat padegi to please help me

Dirt is all you see in Kenya? Why didn’t show the hotel you slept in?

it makes me sad seeing you guys working your ass off to change the world when people are still polluting and making whit out of plastic. I like your project and i'm planning building my own plastic shredder