PP sheetpress is only useful for pellets or HDPE chips, but we need solutions for all kinds of plastic, mostly flakes from our shredders… boards larger than 1 m2 are not necessary for most of the furnitiure… so we created a new way to make boards from the mix to really help nature … and we need solutions also for remote places like islands, mountains …nobody will transport trash from there to facilities
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Step 1 - New way to press sheets
We use the mix of plastic, but not PET, as there are established collections everywhere We take what the system does not … alu compounds, foams, tape, strings, nets, TV boxes, fridge boxes and everything you find on beaches, excluded PU from motorbike seats …
We create hard surfaces that do not decay to microplastic as fast as PP,PE …
Our press is cheap and can be transported in a car. Our boards are limited size 42×58×1 cm, which is sufficient for most of furnitiure, so we can add more value than by making bricks or tiles. See the last video on PACIFIC BEAUTY plastic.
Step 2 - Hard surface with nearly no microplastic
We fill a tray of 62×42×20 with a layer of EPS rocks and add some colorful HDPE or PP. This layer should be only 10 percent of the boards weigh, about 200 grams. Then we add 1800 grams of trash plastic mix. We put the tray in our toaster between 2 hot aluminium plates. The tray consists of 2 parts, so that it is easy to open and clean by steel brush. The iron sheets are thin , so that not much energy is necessary to heat it up.
Step 3 - No smell, no fumes, no noise
The tray with the hot plastic board is put into a second frame and fixed by clamps. One 50 cm clamp has a pressure of 500 kg, enough to keep it in shape while cooling The toaster is ready for the next board. It takes 20 minutes to heat a mass of 2 kg plastic by a system of 5 kW. You can't heat more quickly, as plastic does not transfer heat well and can't uptake much energy per time.
Step 4 - Create hard surfaces with nearly no microplastic r
Making boards from HDPE bottlecaps doesn't help nature much. We need solutions for the mix of plastic we find in the environment. With our method we can produce up to 20 boards 60.40.1 cm a day. There are colleagues who buy a PP sheetpress and then find out you can't use it with flakes. Therefore my video is provoking.