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Here in Mexico we have "The 3 stages of clothes". 1 stage: Buy new clothes 2 stage: When the clothes is been used a lot or don't fit anymore, we used like pajamas 3 stage: And the very used clothes we used like rag
Im in my 20s in the USA and we do the same thing. Being utterly wasteful was a luxury our parents had while we cant buy homes or go to college.
you're missing an intermediate step between 2 and 3. When they're too shit to use as pajamas but "still in one piece", you use them for things you know will get them permanently dirty like painting the house ;). Saludos
Exactamundo. La ropa dura para siempre. 😂😂
In medieval England damaged old clothing would be left in water with a little lye to break down and then when there's a jelly like emulsion of fibres left it would be lifted out on a mesh and while wet a makers mark would be hammer into it with a dye {hence the term watermark} the then mix would be gently squeezes of most water and then left to dry, producing an extremely high quality parchment.
parchment is made of animal skins. also, the watermark isn't "hammered"into the wet paper. it is pressed with a roller. also, at the time, most paper was made of new linen fibers. wool was an unsuitable fiber, and cotton wasn't terribly widespread. and this was much, much earlier than the discovery of the process used to turn wood pulp into paper.
@@JohnLeePettimoreIII no that's vellum Actually it was usually a hammer at the time as they ere considerably cheaper No they weren't they were old linen, I never mentioned wool. If you're going to needlessly troll. Have a clue what you're on about 🤡🤡🤡🤡
One of the first synthetic plastics, Bakelite, used sawdust mixed with phenolic resin. It is a composite material where the sawdust is a cheap filler and the wood fibers add additional tensile strength.
AND it stays crunchy in milk! 😁
are you sure about that ? Bakelite was I think, THE first ever plastic, a phenol formaldehyde resin. Horrible black, brittle smelly stuff, used in things like old timey telephones etc. once you smell it you never forget it.
@@psycronizer nitrocellulose
your English is really getting better
I thought he got a friend to say the English version 🤣🤣
I thought it was dubbed
He tried that a bit ago but everyone wanted his voice back 😂
I noticed that too.
@@koevoet7288 I enjoy hearing his accent with perfectly spoken English words. It's calming.
Not sure if you read these comments, but there's a pretty cool method to turn food waste into PLA e.g. for 3D printing. You grow Koji (a mold) on the flood waste that breaks it down into the smallest chemical pieces. All the carbohydrates turn into sugar, that can then be fermented into lactic acid and that can be made into PLA. There's a video on it on KZhead.
Not bad.
Good for saving nafta & fossil deposits from being used up for polymer production. Not so useful for recycling, but every little helps.
We currently use laminated high pressure wood plastic composites as part of our machines because they are durable, easy to machine with common tools and fire resistant. Maybe this cotton plastic composite material will become popular as new applications are found for it.
Might be due to polymer chain alignment under stress
Old school: molded bakelite used graded sawdust to enable flow and give strength/resilience to the otherwise brittle plastic.
15:25 What is interesting to point out is the recycle one change color as it reach it's breaking point. It goes from it's initial color to a light-grey color and just as it snap it return back to a darker grey shade.
The laser cutter you used, has some misalignment in the lenses, or the tube does NOT output a consistent round laser beam. Check all the mirrors and focusing lens for dirt or cracks. If everything is okay, test the laser beam shape with an acrylic piece thick enough, at low power, to see the shape of the beam.
Most lasers do not make a round beam that would be the older type or some of the CO2 or argon based gas tubes modern lasers are mostly a LED type device or you could say solid state.
One thing that would reduce the need to recycle would be to make durable clothing again. I still wear a shirt I got in high school in the 1980's. New clothing lasts me about 6-24 months, no matter where I buy or how much I pay. Fashion oriented people might be okay with disposable clothing, but for me it means wasting more money, time wasted shopping, and leaving a trail of polymer pollution in the form of lint everywhere I go.
Planned obsolescence: short term use items need replacing more often, making money for manufacturers and sellers of what amounts to trash. If all the PET bottles in landfills and the ocean could have been made once, reclaimed, sanitized and reused, we'd have enough bottles to last for generations, and the manufacturers would be bankrupt. So, manufacturers must be legally responsible for the full life cycle of every product they make, including all the steps stated above, or they'll just keep making single use trash no matter how bad things get.
@@JeremyNasmith Sadly, Planned Obsolescence (invented by "Uncle Sam" back during the 20th century depression) is still mandatory in so many countries (to keep the economies running). P.O. is a crime against the environment and humanity in general.
Thank you very much for this video! The problem with recycling of plastics is, that it is almost impossible to sort the wide variety of different polymers out, be it due to the lack of the knowledge of the customers, be it because different plastic layers are combined within the same object, be it because of the lack of different containers for PP, PET, PE, PVC, etc. Perhaps a slight help would be the addition of specific pigments with a unique spectral signature in the UV, or VIS or IR light, so that machines could sort (most) of them aautomatically out. On the other hand instead of burning the plastics, you could pyrolyse them (e.g. with solar arrays reflecting the sunlight to its reaction centre at the focal point) and distill the produced vapors to collect the various substances out of it like alkanes, alkenes, alcohols, etc. and the residues of charcoal mixed with S, Cl, F, ... and metals like Al, Sn etc. Landfills are the worst solution.
You know most plastic in the ocean is fishing gear 50% alone {approx} is fishing nets, something like 90% {approx} is fish related plastic items. Straws account for less than 0.05% Highly recommend seaspiracy
source?
that's 140% may i suggest the youtube channels, "Stand Up Maths", and/or "Numberphile"?
@@JohnLeePettimoreIII You're not a clever human fishing nets are fish related plastics.
I absolutely love it! It's about time we all started thinking beyond throwing our old stuff into a bin. This is by far one of my favorite channels!
I'm also a diving instructor in a technical diver. I saw the first example of that at the French and Spanish border where I saw Dead Sea for the first time and it was microplastics throughout the entire water column and nothing alive.
The fibers mixed with plastic remind me of melmac from the 50s dinnerware made of it is damn near indestructible. You could definitely make lots of useful items with this, and I'm sure that the process will be refined and improved for industrial production.
Dune... plasteel
Seems to be a pretty nice material for hobbyists, you can recycle old projects/scraps, easy to work with, relatively strong
@LabRat Knatz I was wondering that too. It'll take a bunch of experimenting, but of they can make expensive things like Pelican cases cheaper I'll definitely buy some more of them!
@@Embassy_of_Jupiter it's not too hard to make a heated press or machine two piece molds like that if you're determined. Having one setup for a group of model plane enthusiasts for example would make a lot of sense for them all to chip on on.
@@chemistryofquestionablequa6252 Yeah definitely, you could probably even make your own sheets and form them with a heat gun. You could probably even use plywood for the mold like with the comb, maybe even with a flatiron or an oven Pure PP melting point is 130-170°C (266-340°F), flash point is 260°C (>500°F), so it should be pretty easy to melt.
We in Israel recycle plastic bottles into containers for fruit. In every market you see sellers use it. There is 1 and 2KG container. It is thin yet durable enough to hold the produce. I often use it again as a small trash box.
10:23 Hairy plastic macaroni was not something I planned on ever hearing in my lifetime lol
I'm glad people like you are finally taking this issue seriously. Your message will help reach a wider audience. Thank you.
You dont need brilliant. YOU are brilliant! I love your videos!
I learn so much from your videos. Thanks. You can tell you put a lot of research in to them.
I think one day these dump yards will be very valuable. All the plastic and the smorgasbord of other fuels will be dug up and reused in perhaps a similar way to the way we use oil fields today. Nothing is ever waisted, it's just not always consumed at the moment.
4:27 i wouldn't say "none." plastic-eating bacteria are currently being studied.
They're a great idea until they get out into the wild and start eating plastic that you are still using.
Like, what could even go wrong???
Thank you for this, it is an interesting concept, and it seems that you put a lot of work into producing the video.
Absolutely fascinating. I hope loads of scientists message you. I would absolutely love to see what some smaller labs are working on.
Thank you thank you thank you. Great video!
I love your videos. I learn, and they help me relax and fall asleep. Thank you.
@13:27 ::flashbacks to working at an injection moulding facility:: Nope, don't miss that at all.
Thanks for sharing buddy
Great video! The plastic waste problem needs solving!
Thanks for the great video!
Plastic coated interlocking bricks for construction I think is the ultimate use. Rough surface for rendering and chemical bonding with glues. They wouldn't crack and they will be water proof and no rising damp. The bricks could be simply dipped in the plastic or sprayed with it.
Get that converted into spools for 3D printing, and you've got a zero waste cycle in the works.
there are several types of physical "strength" that need to be considered. bending, compression, stretching, and twisting. each plastic has different properties that could make it better in different situations.
love your videos, i always learn something.
The best way to reduce waste is to just not waste as much
Reduce > ReUse > Recycle is the order of prefrence taught since the 1980s.
I really enjoyed this informative video. Thank you.
Can you imagine how screwed we would be if a bacteria capable of breaking down polymers showed up on this planet?
*Blessed
@@V503K we would be screwed for at least a decade, and then yes - it would slowly switch to blessing.
There are bacteria that break down plastics. And in the wild they are evolving to get better at digesting plastic. This was inevitable, and we can hope they get better at eating all that plastic, food for them. There are a couple of videos on KZhead about them.
let's not forget that cellulose is technically a "polymer". and there's shit tons of it.
@@JohnLeePettimoreIII or lignin - a constituent of wood, which is really hard to break down; it took millions of years for the bacteria to "learn" decomposing this and even then it's a slow process as the depolymerisation is a gradual process and it takes decades until a single trunk gets decomposed naturally
When i have a shirt that tears, i still wear it for a work around the house shirt. When it becomes unwearable, my wife turns it into a dog shirt for one of our pups. Our pups love wearing their shirts.
Excellent and very informative!
Thanks for the new video cheers 🍻
Surely you just make the fibres from the fabric longer when you chop them up. Longer fibres might introduce a reinforcing effect which would perhaps make the materiel stronger?
Unfortunately, long fibers can't be injection molded as they disturb the flow of the Polymer.
Very cool video. AND IT"S GOOD TO SEE THE KITTY IS BACK!
Congratulations, This is Truly A Great Idea!
Recycled pressed plastic has been used to make make composite timber for a while now. The problem with pressing and cutting is it's slow and wasteful, unless it can be injection moulded it makes more sense to use it for items that can be pressed to final dimension.
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I love this guy! These videos opened up a fascination I thought I lost years ago. Keep up the amazing work my friend!
Plastics and other synthetic materials can be pyrolized into fuel. Plastics and synthetics are made from natural gas or petroleum products to begin with. Through pyrolizing/heating, they can be broken back down into the materials they were originally made from. This would allow the resultant products to be remade into plastic/synthetic or burned as fuel in electrical generators or boilers to desalinate seawater. They are a resource that is not being utilized on a large scale but is being done in some remote areas without other fuel sources.
Lightweight and applied durability to specific tasks; sounds like something SpaceX, Roscosmos, CNSA or any of those space administrations can incorporate into the structure/insulation of large one-way bulk-transportation vehicles to Mars and planets beyond, where they can then be broken down and used for localized planetary construction projects... tho the linen-composite plastic probably won't have great endurance against radiation on Mars than it would against the super-low temperatures.
Excellent content, peace brother!
amazing video...just love it.
That was very interesting great work!
The problem isn't that we don't have methods of recycling plastic. It's been known for many years that it's simply cheaper and more energy efficient to produce new plastic. So much energy was needed to make this. That on top of degradation of the materials during the process, needing MORE pure PP in order to even make it, etc.
Thank you!
they do make great rags, I get a block of old cut up tee shirts from the hardware store all the time
There already are some micro-organisms and bacteria eating plastic. In fact, this is one of the discoveries challenging our current ideas on how fast can evolution take place. First examples of this were actually in the early 2000's with the CDR/DVDR eating fungus destroying out burned data (at the time nature seemed not to like piracy hehe)
Two things; one we have bacterial enzymes that can decompose plastic over 48 hours, two there is ecology in plastic patches in the ocean that now solely rely on the plastic to live. The latter is why birds are often found trying to plastics. There are snails and fish that look like plastic trash.
How does this stuff perform in compression? For instance if you cut a washer, shim, or bump block out of this instead of regular plastic, would it be better or worse?
The pp and textiles could be made into floor tiles or something similar if at 8 to 10mm thick and drive ways at 25 to 35mm thick.. a good way to test it.
There is a need for fence posts and star rails in yards and patios that if dyed properly could use up millions of tons of plastic. Just needs someone to make them. I have been using plastic boards as steps and posts for years and they still hold up just fine.
Can you show us how to make homemade glow sticks, and what chemical properties is in them and are they really nontoxic, and why they never last long lasting just s short time like around 6 to 8 hours if your lucky? Are firefly's glowing butt glow with the same chemical makeup as them or different? If so what is it? Are the military grade glow sticks chemicals different or same just lot more concentrated? Also would like to know if dry ice would attract mosquitoes, like say you put dry ice on the other side of your backyard and you on the other will it keep them away and go to the dry ice since they find animals this way to get the blood from them or us? Try that experiment then add a used sweaty sock beside it because they are also attracted to the smell of our feet sweatier and smelly your feet the more mosquitoes will buzz around you and more bites, so I'm wondering if that will work? Might be a nontoxic solution for repellent instead of those nasty stinking sprays and stinking citronella candles?
What I do not get, and I would explore if I had more money, is why plasma processors are not focused on particular substances in order to implement processes of higher efficiencies. For example plasma processing focused on specific materials. A plant designed to process polymers, a plant that is focused on cellulose, tuned specifically to those, and other, substances. Specific focus will lead to efficient processing of materials into methane or syn-gas products which can be used in efficient fuel cells or polymer precursors. Like cellulose can be use for polymer precursors. While either can be used as methane for fuel cells which have have greater efficiencies than other methods of producing electricity.
Please present more information on other plastics and the temperatures and methods of molding?
Hello. I have seen a recent scientific study which shows the ocean has developed its own plastic consuming bacteria. There are also bacteria and fungus that can dissolve next to anything pretty quickly including plastics and chemicals.
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Wonderful ideas . Were more of my neighbours , to recycle properly it would make it easier & would work . That leaves the collectors of said sorted garbage - the glass we seperate into colours , the collectors dump it into one bin . Other household rubbish , often gets dumped into one bio-bag , put into the rubbish bin and it goes from there to the dump , from which a creek exits , and a gas collection system has been buried , to flare off methane , which could be captured , for the city supply , instead it's flared off , 24 / 7 .
one of the biggest issues with recycling is the infrastructure. while only a percentage of the population actually sorts their waste products, this small amount STILL far outstretches the capacity of the recycling industry.
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Plastic is indeed a very versatile material, and quite recyclable, but the energy cost (which translates to money cost) of doing so is still much greater than just sending it to an 'emerging' country in which it will be mismanaged, and eventually ending up in the ocean
can it be 3d-printed? essentially it's fiber reinforced plastic. sure, I don't think that it will be great for fine prints, but sometimes you just want to have something sturdy and use a 1mm nozzle (or larger).
This right here
looks like a trabant body panel part to me. perhaps that would be a good use for the compound...body panels.
A solution to the trash problem is incineration with electrical cogeneration. It's not a perfect solution, but even if you believe in CO2 global warming, the incineration simply would replace emissions that would be made anyways. Pollutants can be scrubbed from the exhaust, which adds cost but is necessary.
I really enjoy your accent and cadence of speaking English. Always very interesting information. 👌
Dave Haskins started "precious plastics", but made it completely open source. It works. He now is in Portugal , and his KZhead is "Project Kamp". Keep up the recycling!
Whether your hairbrush is sitting inside on table versus outside doesn't matter. You're still expending energy and further processing plastics and making a carbon footprint. It's like saying "no my soccer ball that sits outside in my yard isn't littering! Only the soccer ball that sits over there in a pile (landfill) is littering!"
I don't think it's actually possible to run out of places to bury stuff. Plastic ending up in the ocean or as pollution elsewhere is a matter of either lack of infrastructure or societal indifference, not something inherent to plastic or waste in general.
There are cities build on top of landfills, if done properly it can work. The only problem with landfills is when they are not properly made in respect with protecting the underground waterways, and if you are going to build on top of it, you have to do proper engineering because there can be pockets of gas that turn into holes . I don't know why people think just land-filling plastic doesn't count as a solution, while they still keep dumping on the ocean or sending it to poor countries, which is even worst. Heck, literally burning the plastics in a autoclave with a closed catalyst would do the trick (yes, that emits CO2, but it would be such a tiny amount of CO2, we still have fucking coal burners, heck literally burning plastic instead of coal would be better)
I've seen machines that can recover yarn from fabric. First it shreds the fabric, then makes it cotton like with mechanical shear. Yearn are spooled from it nearly the same way as from cotton. The only problem is, the recycled yarn is of a bit lower quality.
In filler for cars, glass fibers are used. Maybe textile fibers could be a substitute :)
Props to that guy for saving a minute
Would you consider making a video on plastic pyrolysis? This is a process that is fast, cheap and easy and does not require sorting of different plastics. Plastic pyrolysis creates a synthetic light crude oil and carbon. The oil can be refined into petoleum products or new plastics. The carbon can be reused or sold. Some plastics also release chlorine and sulfur which need to be managed. Although toxic, these products are also useful in industrial processes.
dihydrogenmonooxide moment
@@nurpechbeimspielen3139 I'm not sure what H2O has to do with the process but please continue...
and what about the waste (solid, liquid, and gas) produced by these processes? remember that EVERYTHING has a price and side effects. nothing is free.
@@JohnLeePettimoreIII Of course. You would see that I mentioned chlorine and sulfur as hazardous byproducts. I'm sure there are other considerations to be made. That is why a video on the process by a qualified chemist would be interesting.
The way he says "solution" gives me life
you look like you have been working out a d being active keep it up man great vid as always
As a chemist what do you think about chemical recycling, so seperating waste into its individual elements or some form of raw material like oil in case of plastic?
"anything into oil" is old tech now.. plastic, organic matter, etc. There is a plant next to the Cargill chicken plant here in Missouri that converts the waste trimmings into fuel oil.
@@demandred1957 i mean turn the plastic waste back into plastics raw ingredients and make new plastic
@@demandred1957 I saw that technology make lots of science news articles years ago but I never saw it catch on. Every landfill was going to become a source of oil with the metals and glass separated out for added revenue. Every waste stream from almost every industry was going to be gobbled up. Years after these articles we still ship “recyclables” off to developing countries so it looks like they aren’t going to landfills.
@@froschreiniger2639 yeah, you can do that with the anything into oil plant. It's just not that economical. They get more bang for their buck turning it into fuel oil. all plastic is made from various oil feedstocks after all.
@@capitalistdingo yeah, the catch is the waste stream has to be fine tuned to work well. So they just can't dump a trash truck onto a belt and convert it. But if you can fine tune it like Cargill did with the beaks and feet, and whatever else waste they don't use it works brilliantly. The bottom line is exactly that though.. As long as oil is available at a *reasonable* cost it's far cheaper to just make new stuff than to set up a plant to convert stuff back to a feedstock oil.
Could try Schweizer's reagent to dissolve your old t-shirt if it’s cotton.
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quite common to add fibers to hig end plastics for the automobile industry as example. I think at a big scale, organic fibers wouldn't be consistent enough.
Great idea 👍😊
In regard to plastic and clothing, my idea would involve turning the unrecyable plastics into bricks that can be used to build stuff. The clothing can be used as "filler" or aggregate depending on the engineering requirements for any given application. For example, a building will require different standards than a decorative fountain. As for microplastics, I guess we'd have to coat the bricks in something like epoxy resin to ensure the bricks don't erode and emit microppastics. That said, I don't know how much heat and energy it would take but this would be a relevant consideration.
Those bricks will be flammable and release microplastics forever
@@krz8888888 but what if we melt glass and encase the bricks within that melted glass? Okay yeah, you're definitely right about first example... and this revised example is an exercise I'm madness. Even if it could be done without leaking microplastics, it would be no time before industry skipped and built the crappier version.
Best way would be do destroy it with a plasma gasifier and make some energy on the out. A complete combustion with no micro-particles.
Actually, A few months back I heard that a bacteria was found breaking down plastic in Japan. Unsure on the finer details, but you would be surprised how quickly bacteria can move to fill a niche.
I think one day we will need to rot proof plastics.
Add the textile/plastic powder with concrete along with pig's blood. Yes. Pig's blood too. I believe it will be unusually strong.
Very cool potential here! A great concept for recycling two types of waste at the same time! However, besides the complication of funding & gathering enough momentum for more streamlined production (which WILL become more sustainable if conditions are right for long enough)... we still need to ask the same questions of this material as we do all the other plastics. Does it leach chemicals or give off harmful fumes (after the initial cellulose sweetness wears off)? How long will it last (long enough to serve its purpose?) & under what stressful conditions? And what about disposal? Will it also last long like all the other plastics, thus causing the exact same problems if not disposed of correctly? Will its cellulose aspects disintegrate & thus leave microplastics behind in the environment? & can it, in turn, be recycled into the same, or as yet another part of something new? Lots of testing needs done to find all this out. To see if it's worth the investment. I really hope it can work out for the better, or whatever other projects are also being considered, that have a good chance to solve many of our waste problems. This is why it's VERY important to vote for politicians who are willing to invest in recycling, energy & carbon solutions, & the environment overall, so we can innovate, test, & fast-track solutions into quick production as soon as they're found worthy. (Even though most of them end up either lying, or are so stymied by the lower tiers that they can't pass measures they desperately WANT to.) Various sides need to learn that it's ok to agree on a FEW things (honestly, many of them used to!), like "How about we DON'T destroy the only planet we've got for at least a couple centuries?" People who can't say that openly & confidently should no longer be elected, simple as that. We're backing ourselves into a corner, & if we don't do something VERY quickly, it'll eventually be too late to turn things around, then we can only watch over decades as things fall apart. We can't just start scrambling when things become unbearable, because by then, it'll already be futile. We need to treat NOW like that desperate last-ditch moment. The TItanic needed to turn sooner. Thank you for this informative & interesting video, with important & grim truths, but also filled with optimism & the excitement of new discoveries, & hope for the future! 🙂
FFS man, calm down. Nobody is gonna read that book you just typed up in a comments section.
@@TheRogueRockhound , I am calm, & at least you cared enough to comment. Thank you, have a good day. ^_^
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It's interesting to see you branching out into partnership videos!
if im not mistaken they already have found the solution to the problem of plastic, which involve high pressure and water i think?! and they turn it back into oil / hydrocarbur. something along that. they have also found bacteria capable to process plastic..
Keep up the good work
>Microplastics form in the sun >African floor tiles Epic
Very interesting.
Waste sorting and the energy used in transformation are the economic challenges at the heart of this topic. Is it economically scaleable? Is it a complete solution? 'Many a slip between cup and lip'!
You've reinvented Trabant body panels: Duroplast 😁😁
Polymer chemistry and technology is very interesting. Many thanks for the video.
I was surprised to see a sponsorship message on your channel!
Your vids are the best
This material is perfect for factory applications. It's cheap, durable and easy to recycle. It would be great for hoppers, conveyors, bumpers, guards, signs, fixtures, housing covers, pallets, and boxes to transport material. Seriously, factories could use this material and other recycled materials that never really see the light of day. I dont see this being used for ordinary consumer products because it looks ugly, probably has varying properties from batch to batch, and is honestly not as durable as other specialize engineering plastics.