What does it take to recycle plastic at home?

[Xist]

I was trying to figure out how to make a custom case with built-in earbuds, but realized that I don't have time for projects like this.

I had given up on recycling plastic when YouTube recommended this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmx6-Xc3VMU

They explained that after industrially using sand it becomes unusable and is called "Foundry dust." A lady explained that it is a hazardous material with heavy metals. They combine it with plastic waste in 70/30 ratio to make silica blocks, requiring 300% less energy than standard bricks, and are 2.5 times stronger for the same price.

The only PPE they showed workers wearing while making bricks containing heavy metals were oven mitts.

Here is a video about mixing plastic and foundry ash to make bricks.

Is that the same thing?

This also claims their bricks are 2.5 times stronger, but also 26% lighter.

In the end they say to shove plastic into bottles, call them "Eco-bricks," and build bridges out of them, or something:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOvFjqCLSCU

I saw one guy wearing a dust mask!

Some Colombians started making bricks with plastic waste, sand, and special sauce, and Unicef called them in 2010, asking them to expand to Ivory Coast, where they have built 300 classrooms. They pay people to collect recyclable plastic and some lady says she is earning 4 times what she used to. Classes are ridiculously overcrowded and the government estimates they need 30,000 more classrooms, which they could make with these techniques.
One city in Ivory Coast produces enough plastic waste to build those 30,000 classrooms in 2 years or less:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB-_BBMCq1g

This group in the Netherlands tried to figure it out and said that even though plastic is a waste product, it is expensive to collect, so they made hollow bricks. They made them tapered so they wouldn't get stuck in the molds, but figured that fewer people would be interested, so they made something more like legoes, which use more material and are more expensive, but interlock, and are easy do do corners. Their funding ran out, so they published everything necessary to build your own waste plastic bricks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aqn1PYbkgf0

Bonus: After this young man lost his family in a mudslide caused by deforestation he started making charcoal from coconut husks, which cost vendors to dispose of them.

Of course, there is a secret ingredient.

He charges 4 times as much as wood-based charcoal, but they burn at least 4 times as long, and emit less smoke.

He puts them in plastic containers!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meBd1GHC2yg

[freebeard]

Originally Posted by Xist

The new Ursula is prettier than the new Ariel. Fight me.

The Little Mermaid - Absolute Bilge -- The Critical Drinker

At 8:32 there is a clip.

..weirdly the best
8:33 aspect of this film for me was Melissa
8:34 McCarthy as Ursula who's just as devious
8:37 manipulative and delightfully malicious
8:39 as she was in the original she's evil
8:42 and she [ __ ] loves it...

Ontopically, it's frustrating to me that the Ruger ARX polymer/copper rounds are available in two, soon four, calibers that are of no use to me.

Edit:
Based on the review, the most watchable part is the ship on fire

[Xist]

Some people just want to watch the world burn.

I don't understand wanting to be where the people are, but I guess she hasn't met them yet.

[freebeard]

Some people just want to watch the world burn.

Not sailors. It's the worst thing.

Spaceship Earth? Nobody care.

I've known people that want to watch it burn, but they burnt out first instead.

Ontopicaligistic:
Milk is can be stronger than steel.

1934 Simple Bioplastic Made Stronger Than Steel

First you remove the casein and make graphene, then you use the casein to make plastic and infuse it with graphene.

I'd want mine in the form of dragon scale maille breastplate and pauldrons.

[Xist]

I missed this video, which I had open in another window:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckWqR1JD158

I believe that 4/5 combine sand and plastic, while the other uses plastic and used motor oil.

[freebeard]

#3 -- Melting heterogeneous plastics with only an N95 face mask? What could possibly obtain?

And that plastic in the oceans they mention? It could keel us all.

caymannewsservice.com: New horror revealed in sargassum blob

(CNS): Scientists have discovered that a flesh-eating bacteria is interacting with sargassum and decaying plastic in the ocean, creating the perfect “pathogen” storm that has implications for both marine life and public health. Researchers at Florida Atlantic University have found that the bacteria might be adapting to plastic and living in sargassum, washing up on beaches in a new environmental horror.

The seaweed has already been washing up on local shores over the last few weeks. Given the current size of the Atlantic sargassum belt, dubbed the “great blob”, as it has grown to reach some 5,500 miles across and is currently moving through our region, we can expect to see much more in the coming months.
...
“Plastic is a new element that’s been introduced into marine environments and has only been around for about 50 years,” said Tracy Mincer, PhD, corresponding lead author and an assistant professor of biology at FAU. “Our lab work showed that these Vibrio are extremely aggressive and can seek out and stick to plastic within minutes. We also found that there are attachment factors that microbes use to stick to plastics, and it is the same kind of mechanism that pathogens use.”
...
The study highlighted vertebrate pathogen genes closely related to cholera and non-cholera bacterial strains. Researchers also discovered toxin or “zot” genes, which increase intestinal permeability as the vibrios appear to be getting in through the gut, getting stuck in the intestines and infecting that way.

In another news.... Episode 1943 -- Unbreakable Plastic at 1:14 shows what it takes to adequately disperse graphene in whatever matrix (Plastic, concrete) you choose.

[Piotrsko]

Ummm if you haven't noticed life is positively and absolutely fatal, so far.

Neighbor used to ask: "If heaven is so wonderful, how come nobody wants to go there right now?"

[Xist]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6MqUqtTlLI

These people buy algae, make pellets out of it, and mix 10-30% into plastic, sequestering carbon dioxide, but also reducing algae blooms.

There is a lot of overhead, but harvesting pond scum is cheaper and easier than drilling for oil.

In order to reduce the algae blooms and all of the problems that causes, they need to reduce fertilizer flowing into our waterways, but only legumes fix their own nitrogen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFyd-kC6IUw

There is a type of giant maize that grows in Mexico with slimy roots meters above the ground that fixes its own nitrogen, providing 80% of what it needs, so they are trying to cross-breed it with other grains and reduce fertilizer.

[freebeard]

These people buy algae....

Kenny Chesney?

Primitive Technology: Making Iron From Creek Sand

Primitive Technology: Iron Bacteria Cement (no fire/water insoluble)

Primitive Technology: Iron knife made from bacteria

[Xist]

He progressed from slime?