Build your own recycling centre
www.tanmarket.com - Build your own recycling centre With a set of open source blueprints and online tutorials, one man sets out to teach you how to build your own plastics recycling centre and create everyday usable objects or even start a small business. SHOWS: VARIOUS LOCATIONS (RECENT) (PRECIOUSPLASTIC.COM - ACCESS ALL) 1. PLASTIC BOTTLE 2. PLASTIC ITEMS 3. BEACH WITH PLASTIC BOTTLES STREWN ABOUT 4. GRAPHICS OF WASTE AND NEW ITEMS 5. GRAPHICS OF INDUSTRIAL PLASTIC PLANTS 6. FOUR PRECIOUS PLASTICS MACHINES 7. PRECIOUS PLASTICS WORKSHOP 8. DAVE HAKKENS SORTING THROUGH PLASTICS MATERIALS INSIDE WORKSHOP 9. PLASTIC BEING SHREDDED INTO SMALL FLAKES AND CAPTURED IN CONTAINER AND LABELLED 10. HAKKENS PUSHING DOWN ON A MOLD THAT HAS BEEN USED TO CREATE AN OBJECT 11. PLASTIC RAW MATERIAL 12. A KNIFE HANDLE BEING MADE FROM RAW PLASTIC MATERIAL 13. MOLD BEING RELEASED 14. SET OF DRAWER HANDLES MADE FROM PLASTIC 15. A SPINNING TOP MADE OF PLASTIC 16. VARIOUS OF OBJECTS MADE FROM PLASTIC 17. VARIOUS IMAGES OF WHAT'S BEEN CREATED FROM PLASTIC WASTE 18. GRAPHIC OF GLOBE 19. GRAPHIC OF BLUEPRINTS AND INSTRUCTION VIDEOS 20. VARIOUS RECYCLABLE MATERIALS THAT CAN BE USED TO CREATE PRECIOUS PLASTICS MACHINES 21. VARIOUS GRAPHICS OF PRECIOUS PLASTICS MACHINES 22. HANDYMAN HELPING BUILD A MACHINE 23. GRAPHIC SHOWING THAT PLASTIC CAN BE USED TO CREATE RAW MATERIAL, SET UP A PRODUCTION LINE, BUILD A BUSINESS AND HELP CLEAN UP THE ENVIRONMENT 24. (SOUNDBITE) (English) DAVE HAAKENS, FOUNDER OF PRECIOUS PLASTIC, SAYING: "With this project we want to try and improve plastic recycling by providing the tools to get started. Sot this is all the basic information people need to start their own little recycling business anywhere in the world. And they can download it all for free. But in order for this to have an impact we need to make sure that people know it's possible to download and start. But we can't do this alone, this is where we need your help. By visiting our website you can spread it around. Make sure it reaches your friends, uncle, neighbour, but also that farmer living somewhere in the middle of Africa. Your share might reach the right person. And all together we can make sure it reaches all corners of the world. Once the information is spread, the recycling begins." 25. GRAPHIC OF A MAP SHOWING AREAS OF THE WORLD THAT CAN BE REACHED 26. PRECIOUS PLASTIC LOGO STORY: Look around your house and it'll be hard not to spot an item made of plastic. Whether it's a milk jug, a laundry basket or some of your children's toys - plastic is everywhere. While it's an easy and cheap resource, the downside is that unwanted plastic ends up being dumped pretty much anywhere, from roadsides to beaches, creating environmental pollution. That's where Dave Hakkens comes in. The Dutch designer has developed what could be a solution to plastic pollution. He created a series of machines that anyone can build and use to recycle plastic and make products. Hakkens posted the blueprints for the machines online, as well as tutorials, and says that anyone can download and build them. There are four machines in all that can be built with readily available materials in just a few days: a plastic shredder; an extruder which turns plastic flakes into a line of plastic that becomes raw material to be used either as it is or as filament for 3-D printers; an injector, which heats plastic flakes and uses them to create a mould; and a compressor, which heats plastic into a mould and can be used to create large objects. Using the Precious Plastic machines, Hakkens has create clip boards, knives, bowls, and plant pots in a wide range of colours. Hakkens is encouraging users of the site - www.preciousplastics.com - to spread the word and wants people across the globe to create their own small recycling centres and products. Using the machines without any training might be considered dangerous, but Hakkens says his site will instruct users how to operate the machinery safely. A recent study by the National Resource Defense Council (NRDC) found that recycling 75 percent of the United States' waste could generate 1.1 million jobs by 2030. The project originally started as the 2013 graduation project of Dave Hakkens for the Design Academy Eindhoven.
