Step 1: 3d-print a conex.
Step 2: Repeat.
Step 3: 3d-print a pole.
Step 4: ????
Step 5: Profit?!
I am not seeing any profit!
However, do you know what is one plastic-based product with a low density is?
Clothing.
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Only 9% of all plastic today is reused. The rest end up in landfills or worse, the ocean. So we decided to do something about it, by turning post-consumer plastic bottles into ultra soft, fashionable and eco-friendly clothing. Same quality as other apparel, just sustainable.
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From plastic to clothes - step by step
1. We collect 6-8 large post-consumer PET plastic bottles (for a recycled t-shirt)
2. The bottles are clinically washed, Monica from Friends style
3. The plastic bottles are then shredded to flakes
4. Next, the plastic flakes are melted into tiny pellets
5. The pellets are extruded and spun into soft yarn
6. Lastly, the yarn is woven into modern, sustainable clothing
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Now I need a nap!
From Plastic Bottles to Soft Tees
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Our production process releases 55% fewer carbon emissions, uses 50% less energy and 20% less water than producing virgin polyester, which is the fabric used in about 60% of all clothes today.
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I never watched "Friends," but as far as I can tell, Monica never washed bottles on-screen, she was just obsessive-compulsive.
For larger projects the Australian brothers use industrial shredders, extruders, and rectangular steel tubing, which would certainly be easier, but what an initial investment!
Also, the extruder is so hot they need to wear respirators.
Personally, I would rather build an enclosure around the extruder with HEPA filters.
Anyway, tossing 7 large plastic bottles into a shredder, and extruding that into yarn, and then knitting that into cloth seems like even more work, but still, turning 7 large bottles into a $20 shirt sounds like a better ROI than anything else I have mentioned.
I don't see anyone doing this in their garage, though.
How do I summon a Plastic Rumpelstiltskin?