Precious Plastic/Research

Bubble Wrap

Material Samples (left:2 layer bubble wrap, right:8 layer plastic bags)

Inspired by a video [1] and blogpost [2] of bjornsteinar.

• Material: plastic bags or bubble wrap
• Tools: iron and baking paper

• Steps
  • Place material between two sheets of baking paper.
  • Iron single sheets as the shrinking is quite drastic and not really predictable (if material ruptures or holes are forming, try reducing the temperature).
  • Fuse pre-ironed sheets together to create thicker, stronger material or extend the material dimensions.
  • Optionally imprint their textures to the surface by using fabrics or perforated metal plates.

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  Small bag made out of recycled plastic bags

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  Small bag made out of bubblewrap

Styrofoam

• Mostly polystyrene, "expanded polystyrene", short EPS
• Dissolvable in Acetone (but that's kinda nasty and not exactly healthy
• Topics in the forum: [3] [4]
• Maybe heat and compression to make it smaller and shreddable?
• Disolvable in D-Limonene (Instructable)
  • D-Limonene [5] [6]

PET Bottles

Our shredder can't deal with PET, it's too tough. But we have been collecting quite a bit of them (those without deposit on them). So what could we do with those?

PET Strings

• There are special bottle cutters to cut PET bottles into strings
• Theo has one he can borrow us
• "THE" Bottle Cutter -> [7]
• DIY Links
  • Instructables [8] [9]
  • YouTube [10]
  • Make Magazine
  • 3D Print at Thingiverse [11]
  • Other [12]
• Bottom and Top remain -> What to do with them?
  • Jewelry? [13]
• Research by the PP Team