Turn waste plastic bottles into useful household items

A student from the University of the West of England, Josh James, has developed a tool that can turn waste plastic bottles into useful household items. Today, Josh James received an award from the industry for his product, Melt, a tool that converts plastic into household items such as coasters, cups, chopping boards, plant pots and so on.

Made of waste plastic pen, chopping board and other products
The product won the first prize in the New Designers Awards 2016, which is now available in one of the polystyrene densifier industry's leading online malls. Melt contains a mold and a welding device, very easy to get started. As long as the HDPE plastic cut into small pieces, and in the oven after melting, you can make any desired thing. That is to say, once a plastic melts, it can be made by hand, other colorful supplies.
James developed the styrofoam recycling product at the age of 21 and was the last school year in college.

Waste EPS recycling industry

The village is not even a market, restaurants or equipment dealers are not. There were only shabby warehouses with bark fence piles of bunks of bunks, piles of plastic buckets, and a stack of plastic baskets.
The driver turned a corner in a warehouse at the corners of the warehouse, there is a graffiti phone number outside the warehouse, and then stopped in front of a small office building, next to a shiny black BMW car. Although we are on the way to see a variety of waste plastic recycling industry scene, but the village is very quiet, almost as quiet as the wild. Distant roar of the machine and the birds sound almost.

Out of the car, a man greeted me, I call him Mr. Hu., aged 50 years old, is the boss of this waste plastic processing factory that we visited. He wore a big Rolex watch and a gray overcoat. I noticed that the workers were wearing shorts. Most were naked, and only a few were wearing sweatshirts. Mr. Hu is handsome, red in the face; workers are skinny, prominent eyes.
Opposite the dusty streets, the workers started a small plastic shredder to cut the waste plastic basket that Mr. Hu imported from Thailand into pieces for recycling.
Mr. Hu told us that he has been engaged in waste EPS recycling industry has been more than 20 years, but this factory was established seven years ago. He owns 90% of the shares, other "investors" have 10%. He led us into an open-air yard where five workers (three of them naked teenagers) were sorting a pile of waste plastics imported from the United States. It was difficult to identify what the waste plastics were, And part of it has become fragmented. I asked Mr. Hu what the waste plastic was shredding. He shrugged: "It could be a plastic box, or some part of a car.
I saw the workers pouring the plastic pieces into the corrosive metal cistern and then using a rotating metal filter to clean the blended plastics and then dry them on a tarpaulin. When the workers finish the work, they collect the excess garbage and cleaning agents, either sell them to others or throw them in the rubbish pits on the edge of the village.
Perhaps not noticed, perhaps we come is not the time, anyway, there is no safety equipment, there is no protective masks, helmets and steel boots; in fact, including Mr. Hu, most people are wearing sandals.
I looked at Josh, he looked back at me: "This is really too bad.
"Today we have only one extruder," Mr. Hu told us, "here."
We walked into a relatively bright room, about 12 meters long, 6 meters wide. The room had a metallic and chemical odor. The middle of a very long styrofoam recycling machine, the length of about half the length of the room. A worker at one end of the machine to a box of plastic debris poured into a desktop-sized funnel-like objects, the plastic inside is slowly melting. I could see the hot air and the smoke from the plastic melted to the front of the worker. At the same time, the plastic solution flowed into the 3-meter-long tube, and the machine spit out the gray bars of the 15 pencil bars.
This machine works in much the same way as noodles. The only difference is that plastic "noodles" will be cut into 6 mm size pellets and then bagged to the manufacturer.

Waste plastic bottles

The US team will compete with the Serbian team gold medal in the current Olympic Games, as the world's top basketball teams, the US team not only has superior strength of the coach and player, behind the same level of technical support, which is reflected from the jersey , Waste plastic bottles as raw materials, combined with high-tech manufacturing process, so that the jersey for the US team defending help.

Plastic bottles after disinfection and other related processes, the steam technology to cut into thin slices, and then through the formation of the technology used in the manufacture of jersey yarn dissolving, which is the main process of plastic bottles change jerseys.

Of course, the US team jersey is not just plastic PET bottles second use of waste to treasure so simple, there are many subtle visible high-tech. "When we perform a major jersey manufacturing project, we first have to communicate with the athletes to understand their ideas," jersey manufacturer's representative Michel - Miller said.

A special research team to test and analysis, such as players in the game sweat situation is the focus of the study. "During the test, they sweat the players by raising the temperature, and then observing the distribution of sweat," Miller said. "Find out where the sweat is concentrated by the test results."

In addition, the player's lower body is also easy to sweat, manufacturers in the ball pants on the design of ventilation holes to enhance air flow. It is reported that the US Olympic team jersey and the 2008 Olympic Games, compared to 51% lighter, breathability increased by 35%.

Subtle tend to see the designer's intentions, jersey number using laser piercing technology, the ball behind the pants with a small velvet, this is easy to wipe the players, the players are always used to play the game sweat wipe In the ball pants, with this small piece of velvet, wipe on the convenience of more comfortable.

Plastic bottles have become the main raw material, accounting for jersey raw materials this year, the proportion of up to 96%, the EPS recycling machine manufacturer has reserves of 3 billion plastic bottles for jersey manufacturing. If the US team beat Serbia in the final win, it is plastic bottles into gold, which is the power of science and polystyrene recycling technology.

Intco Recycling save 2,000,000 trees in 2009!

In 2009, Intco reclaimed about 30000 tons of EPS/Styrofoam waste, and reuse them to manufacture Picture Frames, this is equal to save 2,000,000 trees for our mather earth!

INTCO began in 1993 in Los Angeles, CA, today has over 2,000 employees in nine subsidiary companies and three manufacturing bases, we are one of the largest EPS recycling company in the world. To protect our earth, Intco begin to recycle EPS/Styrofoam waste since 2003, now we have two factory mainly manufacturing picture frame using EPS waste. We can provide total solutions for EPS recycling.

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