@@OneArmyVideos Hi everyone at precious plastic. My name is john and I would like to point out that you may want to go to a YT channel called Robert Murray Smith and his other channel TNT ( thinking and tinkering). He has ways of making power by wind, and by easy way to build generators. A large gravity generator could produce the power to run the larger shredder by powering the motor, or the weight can be directly powering the shredder. A 55 gallon drum filled with water weights 400 lbs. A large plastic chemical tote would weight more. It can easily be geared down to run a shredder. Then when the weight lands, you can pump out the water to another container on the floor by siphon hose like they do in fish tanks. Then it's easier to lift the empty tank back up to the top by rewinding the clock works ( so you speak) back to the top. Then to restart you get a cheap water pump to lift just the water 30 to 60 feet up and refill the empty container in a few minutes and start shredding again, day or night, weather of wind or sun not needed. Cheaper than wind or solar, easier to do. Mechanism Can be done indoors or outdoors from recycled parts, like the barrels/ tote, large cable spools for electric wire ( as the flywheel/ drive gear) and some rope or steel cable.
Me too, that’s genius, because it is replacing an item that will be used no matter what but from recycled plastic instead of virgin plastic! 👍 nice job!
@@Blinkation Yea, needs to be a thermosetting plastic, fire suppression is a must with all electrical applications! also to comply with building regulations. Could add some fire-retardant fillers e.g. granulated huntite/limestone or some granulated thermoset plastic itself if survives the remoulding process.
We really need to share this in many languages. Not all people speak in English. If a good soul (or souls) could do the work with the subtitles in some of these videos, many people will be grateful. Thanks for all this beatiful work
I have been following Precious Plastics and Dave Hakkens for I think around 5 years. So happy to see you getting recognition for this important work through grants and a robust volunteer team. Version 4 is what we need to spread the word of recycling further and faster. I love that you are looking into natural alternative for plastic as well as keeping "waste" out of the landfills. Keep up the good work, Mother Earth is giving you her blessings.
Wow, the sockets and switches. I would say that is the first thing you produced, that can actually be commercially viable. No one else is doing anything like that.
@@rishav4343 Honestly it takes away from the whole concept. If your entire business is plastics, and you don't know what plastics can be used where you're kind of a step behind in my book.
@@MiesvanderLippe i don't know anything about plastic and sockets, but around 18:30 they're sorting the different plastics into bins, couldn't they just use the correct plastic from one of those bins to make the sockets?
@@lukasabubeker9453 They would need at least melamine which becomes soft at around 340'c but these are only used to make plates and trays and electrical shielding etc, and not disposed off frequently. Most of the bulk waste of plastic comes from single use plastics like polystyrene and afaik you don't make sockets out of it. Even if you did manage to recycle them they would be suitable as artisan product and unlikely for mass production; you simply won't find that much plastic at reasonable cost.(Yeah even discarded plastic has a price) These are simply my uneducated guesses don't take me too seriously lol. Besides I don't wanna be accused when someone's house burns down they'll accuse me first
@@HentaiNat polystyrene can lose electrical insulation under high-humidity conditions. It would never get certified and approved as a safe use for any electrical purpose on any country with regulations. People that actually understand about this shit proposed using insulation inside, using GTR or similar as insulator and recycled plastic outside. This guys are very focused on recycling, but their ideas to give mean and used to the plastic has been rather poor, almost like hobby-tier 3D printers.
Love those bricks! A modular shelving system based on the old cinderblock + pine board approach we used as students would be a big seller, too. Lego for grown-ups!
I’m one of your patreon supporters and silent observers of development. I’m extremely happy and amazed at what you all have been able to achieve with so little. Keep up the great work. Thank you for letting me be a small part. Kentucky, USA
Thanks for you generosity with our planet, in special animals and other diversity. Ten years ago we create eco casa verde in our community with the idea to recycle in a land that have a amazing and divine spring water that really cure sickness. And must to be and ecology system to secure all that. We are really interested to continuo doing so in a more large scale. we will appreciatesome of your knowledge. We are blessed from people like you that care and compromise entirer with the problem with our planet. We are glad to start helping recycling and care the system that is in a bad shape right now due to a ton of debris coming from a fume of burning plastic and so on. thanks from our community.
Remembering the state of work when you were trying to build up before the grand prize... And seeing what you've all accomplished until now... It is amazing, you're all amazing, very well done!..
Dave is my hero. I heal people for a living on the West Coast of British Columbia Canada. I am going to be part of this army. We are starting a new plastic sorting facility in Powell River British Columbia. And I am going to lead the charge. One of the first products from the sheet press will be plastic boxes that contain Styrofoam that we can’t recycle locked up into floats for our cottages. They already exist they’re ugly they’re black, no colour,from first use plastic. Mine will be beautiful. Thank you Dave, and all of the rest of you in the army.
I want to make a full recycled skatepark and skateboards. Gonna start with boards and some ramps and mixing materials for strength and endurance testing. I'm serious. Been wanting to do it for years. Kinda started it. I think I've learned enough now to get it started and sustain something. Thank you for what you do and maybe I can join up and get something epic started. Money is the real issue, but i'm patient and will build over time.
This is awesome! After having an idea and researching a little about if it's already out there, I decided to check out how I would have to go about producing. Then i thought about how that it would be even better devoloping it with recycled plastics. I came a cross some injection-molding companies and wondered if, aside from letting a prototype print in 3D, I couldn't just make it on my own. That's the moment my Google-search brought me to this outstanding initiative. This is exactly what I was looking for! I'm cleaning out my garage tomorrow!
Going straight onto the Bazar, got a small building project, interested in the brick and definitely the sockets/switches. More power to you all, amazing ❤️😎👌
You guys are an inspiration! I run a business and we use so many wooden pallets for our products. I was thinking that someone should start making pallets out of recycled plastic and then thought we should be the ones to do it. You guys have eliminated the trial and error that it would take to get something like that off the ground. Keep up the amazing work!
I want in. I have been playing around with HDPE for a little while now, and I think this is great. You have done what I was planning to do alone. I’m glad I found this before embarking on it from scratch
I would like to contribute some simplified ideas for less required machining.. . Simply wrapping plastic bags around a rolled sheet of silicone tube. And placing it in the oven. . Why shred if we don't need to. Instead of a shredder a hot roller & hopper. Or a hot rolling pin for immediate on the table use. Make use of silicone sheets. Waxing a table, and placing the screen mesh, and smearing with caulking (silicone), makes a perfect silicone sheet.
Thank you all for all the work and love you have put into this! It has been exciting to see the beginnings of a new way of seeing not only plastics, but of a decentralized way of developing. Please keep it going! You, and through you all of us, are making the world better!!
Great work and video. Sorting is not a requirement in most countries (Africa, Asia - cheap labour, easy to sort by hand) where plastic is really "the waste problem". What we need is reliable machines that turn waste plastic into something with a local market value.
I'm not kidding when I say check your ads - the intro to your video was an ad from US Plastics SELLING/PROMOTING plastic bottles (!?!). Otherwise, I love what you're doing and hope to join the One Army in 2022.
Fantastic job all. I'm really excited to get involved. I've been watching you over the past 5 years. Now trying to figure out how to get involved in a major way. Congratulations on getting to this stage. Keep up the marvellous work.👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Very interesting changes, specially the idea of focusing on people making 1 machine and/or subjet and specialize. So happy to hear back about the project!!
I clicked on the video because i saw the geodesic dome in the thumbnail. My dad build a double dome over our swimming pool , a bit bigger than yours. I always thought the way to sort the plastics would be to use a centrifuge on the pellets and separate them by density. You know all the equipment you have displayed is commercially available right. good luck to you.
Great work to everybody cooperating in your projects, this is really top professional. Something came up my mind for the sheet press: is it possible to build a calander machine, so you have a continuous sheet of molten plastic being pressed to adjustable thickness between large rolls so you get a continuous sheet you can cut at length that is transportable.
this is beyond words!!! many greetings and thanks from Southamerica! i was really involved when the V3 came out but now you just give us all the tools and solve all the doubts that appear during the reading time.
I love what you're doing and I want to get into this. I'm hoping I can do so, with this iteration. One suggestion from a native English speaker who teaches ESL (me) to Joseph (presumably also a native English speaker): speak to any audience as if English is not their first language; it's better to have slower diction and deliberate pronunciation than to have a cascade of poorly enunciated words. Think of newscasters and radio announcers (with no affectation necessary). I throw no shade; I love what you're doing and I want to be a part of it-I just thought I'd offer some advice from within my specialty.
Hi precious plastic from Mexico. I've been following you for a while cause i'm looking for making some countertops for bathroom furniture and a greenhouse work table. Thanks for all your work and knowledge shared, i've learned a lot from you. Please keep rolling.
Brilliant! I'm really looking forward to the research - both sorting plastic waste and replacing plastic with more sustainable materials are extremely important topics! Thank you! Also, I''ve been planning to contribute to make a local workspace later this year, so good to hear the documentation has been improved :)
Sockets are cool. But it would be nice to see more functional stuff. Like storage containers/organizers. Heavy-duty plastic containers do cost like a spaceship. And I need a lot of things to get stored on the shelves.
on 13 minute - you have Nalgene bottle on your table..and guess what - i'm the guy who is the setup and i do mould them in injection blow molding machines...and we make closure too with strap ...LOVE your videos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!WAY TO GO MY FRIENDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
¡Felicitaciones a ti y a todo tu equipo! creo que me puedo involucrar con las propuestas que promocionan por que son actividades que ambiental y económicamente es trascendente, saludos desde Arequipa, Perú
YAY!!! Thanks to you all for the amazing work!!! I've been trying to start a local community point in my city in 2019, a lot of people are interested (>30!), and this will help us a lot!
Thank you very much for all this incredible material, job and passion shared. We are trying to set a production line made of plastic from clean ups and household plastic in Indonesia to protect the ocean. Our NGO is connecting all stakeholders here in north Sulawesi Island that are already doing something with plastic. Question: Do you have experience treating materials coming from beach clean ups, how do you recommend to clean the material before shredding? Thank you very much!
This is essential work for our sustainable future. Thank you very much for all you do. Question re: construction materials: how do they hold up over multiple freeze-thaw cycles and variable levels of compression throughout? I live in the "tundra" here in the US and - 45 C is pretty common. By comparison, in August we generally have a week or two of 42 C. So we have a saying "There are two seasons here; winter, and road construction." Recycling our plastics effectively sounds like a good way to mitigate this issue.
I came across precious plastic for the first time today. First I want to commend you on what you're doing. I live in London Ontario Canada. Our city has recycling program. Plastic is one of the things that gets collected, however, they have not been accepting plastic bags until recent time because they gets caught in the conveyors of the Sorting system they have. I heard from a colleague at work, that there is a pilot project for collecting small plastic items and bags. Have you addressed the recycling of plastic bags? I am thinking that they could be fed directly into the extruder. I have also come across youtube videos showing that diesel fuel could be made from plastic (through vaporizing and condensing) Looking forward to exploring your organization further.
Hello Precious Plastic team, been working with your machines for almost 2 years now and great to finally see upgrades and more wonderful work!!! Anyway, have a huge problem about the toxic and fume during plastic melting process and saw you guys have a solution on sucking those fumes with big tubes... but couldn’t find more info. Could you send the link for info or advise how you do it?
The only plastic that you would get any toxic fumes from in the post consumer waste stream is PVC and you really don't want to run it anyway because it has such a low melt temp. that you can't mix it with anything else. It does give off a very bad gas Hydrocoloric Gas . This stuff will cause anything steel around it to start rusting almost at once.
Leave it to an expert to tell you your problem isn't happening... Find a Y piece and a fan that will fit in the pipe your using. Install it some where that makes sense for your situation. the side with 2 holes on the intake side and 1 hole on the exhaust side. Hopefully your Y has a straight section, that is what you want in the pipe. Now put the fan in the open channel (or a short pipe attached to it). The fan should blow towards the exhaust and that will pull the fumes into the pipe. If the fan is too close to the end of the pipe It may not work as well, you'll have to experiment with your pipe sizes and fan strenght. Sorry it's a year late.
progressions be wondrous! was thinking 4'x4' sheet of precious ply'plastic at standard sized plywood ya find at hardware/lumber stores.. specifically thunk, sheets/tiles of weather proofing underlayment for wooden joisted floors & roofing tiles.. also thinking it would be easier to roll thin ply'plastic sheets.. then multi'ply em to given dimensions needed.. the hydraulic press would be best for die casting, were pressure is suited to hold two part molds together.. all together, much admirations! that life sized lego wall! geodesick dome too!
Amazing work!!! I am 100% sure that Precious Plastic would get even stronger support and credibility if you would be transparent about the expenses. From the 290k spent, you account for 165k while giving shallow explanations to where the money went exactly. As a donor, I´d like to see that you spend the money wisely while being honest about mistakes. Keep up the good spirit!
Today I tried to download the shredder-startup-kit but it didn't work out. I tried three times. But my system announced failures. Then I tried the mix-work-shop-startup-kit and that worked fine. I played around with numbers in the spreadsheet-template where I filled in the final costs of a shredder-setup workshop. In the end I found (at least on paper/spreadsheet) an "ideal" combination. Now I only need to find the initial 16K (or investors), a production space, people for helping me producing and people or companies who want to buy the shredded plastic in the amounts I need to produce to have it everything profitable or at least break-even.
But in the mix-work-shop-start-up-kit were some costs specified and when I couldn't download the shredder-start-up-kit I don't have figures for that. That's a big pity.
Would depend on the plastic, but rule of thumb for all plastics is "yes, but not forever" you could fill it with concrete, rebar and cover it with siding for sheds and more permanent structures.
No plastic I have used lasts long in the sun; Add some carbon powder to the plastic to give it UV resistance as they do in tyres, AKA carbon black, Pet Coke, charcoal, also graphite. Paint needs to be chemically compatible with the plastic as exposure will cause it to peel from the surface and loose its protection.
Fantastic! You are reasling a dream of mine I've had for years! I saved _kilos_ of plastic, and would _love_ to turn it into a chair, a salt shaer, or doneate to make more light sockets! I happen to live in de Randstad, where can I find you guys..?
Amazing thank for sharing all your Blue prints,experience,bussiness model ,extremely useful information underaprecited the work your all doing best of luck for everybody .
There would be a huge market here in the United States if you could create a mold that resembles a wood plank. Instead of using wood to build fencing around businesses, parks, pools, neighborhoods, or home, let's use a plastic plank that resembles wood that will never have to be replaced or replaced less often as wood. Just an idea.
Regarding plastics --- Pressure cooker systems reduce "cooking time" by 5-10 times (1/5th to 1/10th the time and energy)... Maybe skip the shredding, oven etc. and simply go to user-safe "melter" / mixer / pressure cooker. This might be as "simple" as a pressure cooker or series of pressure cookers with a internal stirring mechanism and a "air-lock" in-feed system.... ??? :)
