I started this topic on another thread before I realised it should have it’s own topic. I have posted the conversation so far so we dont double up. I would really love to find a way to make this viable;
More Than Ten Cents
I want* to mine landfill sites for plastic waste…
I don’t know how (some kind of floatation process maybe) but I am in my 50’s and deeply aware of the 50 years of plastic I am leaving behind and the damage this plastic could do once it breaks downinto microplastics.
maybe if we could make it valuable enough then maybe we could encourage industries to mine it back out?
Thoughts? Am I completely nuts or could this be done and how??
PPme
@morethantencents
, what do you mean by ‘mine it back out’ ? And no worry, this is normal, aware people go nuts easily – especially in dark times, watching this insanity going on in this morass called humanity. I make myself busy enough not to think about the next financial crisis or the next extinction, extreme hard actually – I grew up in the communism, we didn’t had this elbow & whatever society But hey, that’s the beauty of this very PP movement – it keeps you busy – reinventing plastic recycling for the little man at home. For now, I don’t see better than developing micro manufacturing devices and we just got started; time will tell I guess.
More Than Ten Cents
@ppme I am not sure how mining is confusing but the definition is: The extraction of minerals or other materials from the Earth, usually from an ore body, lode, vein, seam etc, but in this case, a landfill.
I guess I see it differently – the industries around plastic manufacturing are well established and the processes are pretty much setup. This didnt just get started.
I am fully aware that what I propose can’t be done just with these machines but I thought this thread was for ideas that did not necessarily use PP machines so shared it here.
I guess it always will come back to the limitations of these particular machines for some people. (I got the same response when I shared the fact we have been asked to see if we can provide 57 million bio-balls to a local fish farm… regardless its a great project that would see a lot of recycled plastic replace the need for new materials and provide jobs here in our local community, all some folks could do was harp about PP machine limitations!).
The thing with PPmachines is they use the exact same processes the “big boys” do – just scaled down for more accessibility, so I have absolutly no problem moving a different brand/flavour/type into my workshop if it meets the end goal.
Please look outside the PP box, I would really like to hear your thoughts on this if the machinery was NOT the issue – which it isnt, all of the necessary machinery already exists in commercial form – I just want to divert it’s use to mining plastic rather than minerals but at this point cant see a way to make it “float” (pun intended)
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