Precious Plastic USA

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Precious Plastic Starterktis

Starterkits are packages of information with everything you need to know to set up Precious Plastic recycling spaces and start tackling the plastic waste problem.

Hi all! Looking for people in Central Illinois that want to take part in the PP Universe! Hooler at me!

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or holler

5:36 PM

whatever you're into

5:36 PM

*crickets chirp

9:13 PM

dang

Only 2000 people in the US are members of pp USA. Out of 227 million. Houston we have a problem!!

4:44 AM

@zmef Where do we start? I watched most of pp you tubes, melted some polypropylene into a mold. Are you setting up some sort of business?

@Luke12345 well I am promoting PP locally. I have spoken with two local restraunts about the plastic waste they produce.

4:41 PM

i want to start collecting and get at least a small mixed workspace going to collect, sort, and process plastic and an injection mold to produce something useful.

4:42 PM

my overall goal is to bring awareness to PP

4:42 PM

I actually discovered it while searching for a wat to create hemp plastic for myself

4:42 PM

glad to see you here...was getting lonely

4:43 PM

It's amazing that there are something like 330 million American citizens and only around 2000 pp friends on Facebook. Maybe we can make a difference idk. The alternative to plastic products are awesome, how far did you get with hemp? I think it's very regulated to grow it still, like illegal unless you kiss the crown. But, there are many other similar fiberous plants that might work. The pp group used something like wheat bran?

People need to be marketed to in order to create a need that can be fullfilled by a product.

8:18 PM

here is some hemp plastic that looks promising

8:18 PM

just need an injection mold

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https://hempplastic.com/product/hemp-propylene-25/

Hemp Propylene 25% - Hemp Plastic

NEW HEMP PROPYLENE 25% is a hemp filled polypropylene. This is a new standard formula with more hemp! This product is used generally used in injection molding, but may be used for other forming methods as developed by individual users. HEMP PROPYLENE is designed to be a drop-i...

8:19 PM

the beyond plastic group from PP is great

8:20 PM

https://community.preciousplastic.com/academy/research/beyondplastic

Precious Plastic Community Platform

A series of tools for the Precious Plastic community to collaborate around the world. Connect, share and meet each other to tackle plastic waste.

Is any one out there from Chicago? Wanting to start a PP in Chicago!

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I’m in La Crosse WI. Starting up a collection point.

4:24 PM

What type of site are you opening @Bumblestuff ?

@Plastic Paradigm I’m just beginning my research, but I’m an artist so would love to be able to recycle material to use alongside involving my community, in various ways. Chicago “recycles”, but do they actually?

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Yeah that’s the ultimate question

They recycle by making blue bins

Even in my smaller city, “recycling” is limited to certain numbers only because there isn’t a market to resell the product. So it’s all about profit still...

4:32 PM

Recreation, art, community involvement. That is where Precious Plastics has the upper hand and can really hit the ground running.

4:33 PM

If you ever need someone to bounce ideas or chat/talk at, let me know. I’m determined to see it happen in the US.

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I'm in Chicago! Also have a CNC shop in Rockford, IL. kimachine.com. Also, does anyone contribute to the codebase? I'd like to get involved with that

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@Kyle Inthabandith I just looked at your site. Your mills look very heavy duty. Does kimachine mostly mill metal in those?

3:54 AM

As for the codebase, I've only looked at their gitHub. Last I looked they used react and vue for part of the front end stack.

Hey all , we received a small grant to build a shredder and heat press. We plan on recycling our laser cut acrylic first. Right now I am trying to figure out where to get our shredder parts cut. I've found a local place but wanted to share a neat website I found too, for getting metal parts cut: https://sendcutsend.com/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAvvKBBhCXARIsACTePW84DuIWixRNu-0tSMXr1qNl6d3zrEWPYCXnVxZtfM2xJdIVRKiZ0UUaApPUEALw_wcB

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zmef

Hi all! Looking for people in Central Illinois that want to take part in the PP Universe! Hooler at me!

Bonjour! We are in central Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, we are just beginning the process of building/acquiring parts for recycling1

We just got approximately $7,000 funding for the club we are making at Southern Illinois University Carbondale!! We plan to use a plastic shredder our school already owns and collect plastic from the university and the surrounding community.

Congrats!

dogwire

We just got approximately $7,000 funding for the club we are making at Southern Illinois University Carbondale!! We plan to use a plastic shredder our school already owns and collect plastic from the university and the surrounding community.

woot woot! My team at UI Urbana-Champaign are in the same boat, received a grant, we just bought a used shredder since building one from scratch was so expensive!

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Hi there, This is my first time posting, so please excuse me if I’m in the wrong place. My apologies in advance. I’d like to build an injection molder from the precious plastic plans. Where do I find the link for the recommended pid controller, heater bands, etc? Thank you for your time.

winn1994

Hi there, This is my first time posting, so please excuse me if I’m in the wrong place. My apologies in advance. I’d like to build an injection molder from the precious plastic plans. Where do I find the link for the recommended pid controller, heater bands, etc? Thank you for your time.

Hi! Inkbird PID controllers are a great starter option. For heater bands make sure they fit your barrel diameter and have a reasonable wattage and match your source voltagr. Various suppliers on ebay, Amazon, alibaba, etc.

My lab bought a very banged up, but cheap plastics shredder off of Ebay! Today it was hooked up to our building's electrical system and shredded it's first piece of laser scrap! https://instagram.com/stories/cucfablab/2567858760081142608?utm_source=ig_story_item_share&igshid=5g27vq8beq6l

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Howdy! Anyone in central illinois I can check out? Wondering if there’s any places I can donate my plastic to or volunteer at

Indernatur9000

woot woot! My team at UI Urbana-Champaign are in the same boat, received a grant, we just bought a used shredder since building one from scratch was so expensive!

That's awesome!! My brother is getting his masters degree in renewable energy engineering at U of I actually.

Sydward

Howdy! Anyone in central illinois I can check out? Wondering if there’s any places I can donate my plastic to or volunteer at

The U of I people might take some of your plastic

@Bumblestuff I'm near Chicago. Can we connect?

Kyle Inthabandith

I'm in Chicago! Also have a CNC shop in Rockford, IL. kimachine.com. Also, does anyone contribute to the codebase? I'd like to get involved with that

@kaioh are you interested in collaborating with others in the Chicago region?

10:22 PM

Anyone else on here near Chicago?

hi hi! i’m new to the discord! i run a 3d printing farm in urbana, illinois (2.5 hours south of chicago), and i’m looking for a way to recycle all of our PLA scraps. has anyone tried? i was excited to find precious plastics, hoping some of the machines could help

Hi there!

It's been done, but someone with a filastruder would probably be more interested.

(you and I met a while ago, when you gave me some of your scraps)

adamj537

(you and I met a while ago, when you gave me some of your scraps)

oh!!! hi adam! hope your project is going well!

Thanks! We're still building our shredder. Your plastic will be used to test it.

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Adam! What’s up brother!? Let’s get that shredder goin!

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There's also a new group at Purdue Northwest (in Hammond, Indiana, close to Chicago) that is almost sure to get a grant to start a Precious Plastic program. My organization is their "mentor."

Hi @judiee! We’ve had some fun looking for creative ways to reuse PLA waste from our campus. We’ve made some tiles, coasters and brackets for shelving:

@bubba just got a quote on the laser cutting. Probably gonna crowdsource much of the funding.

Awesome man!@adamj537. I can’t wait to get started with y’all.

8:44 PM

Wow stand for the plant is impressive. Beautiful design

8:47 PM

I’ve been making blank molds in my garage of just hdpe for the last few months that I’m planning to fuse together for a shelving unit.

8:50 PM

@rbercich. These bags are intended to be plant pots made from plastic bags that I fused together with an iron

I love what you did with the bags!

8:57 PM

Ever consider submitting a tutorial to Precious Plastic?

@bubba I love that idea!

@adamj537 Hmm…I should maybe? That’d be cool. @rbercich thanks! I’d love to check out your operation too! If you accept guests…

@bubba Absolutely! We’re in Terre Haute, IN but our space is open to guests

@rbercich sweet! Aaron.Alberico@gmail.com. Can you email me the address? Available Hours open, etc?

@bubba will do!

@bubba if you head that way, let me know. Maybe we could carpool? I'm on the way.

@adamj537 . Ok. Will do sir, will do

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Hi everyone! I’m located in north west Illinois (closer to Wisconsin than Chicago) and I’m looking to start this for around my area!!! Nice to meet everyone

Hello, @WookieMonster ! I'm near Chicago (really northwest Indiana, but close enough that this channel is relevant). Nice to have you here

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rbercich

Hi @judiee! We’ve had some fun looking for creative ways to reuse PLA waste from our campus. We’ve made some tiles, coasters and brackets for shelving:

wow! this is awesome! do you guys have a website

judiee

wow! this is awesome! do you guys have a website

Thank you so much! We do have a website: wabashrethinks.com and on Facebook our page is reTHink, Inc.

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adamj537

@Bumblestuff I'm near Chicago. Can we connect?

Me too! Let’s connect

Hi everyone in #illinois I live in Chicago and would like to collaborate with people in the area. I’ve got designs I’d like to get injection molded from recycled material. I have a precision sla 3D printer that can print molds for us to inject into. I can make the molds in about a day at low cost. Anyone interested in working together? I have the cash to buy an injector, but I live downtown and don’t have space for the machine.

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I'd love to collaborate! I'll dm you.

Count me in! Collaboration is key

zmef

i want to start collecting and get at least a small mixed workspace going to collect, sort, and process plastic and an injection mold to produce something useful.

How have your efforts been progressing? What part of Illinois are you in?

judiee

hi hi! i’m new to the discord! i run a 3d printing farm in urbana, illinois (2.5 hours south of chicago), and i’m looking for a way to recycle all of our PLA scraps. has anyone tried? i was excited to find precious plastics, hoping some of the machines could help

Hey! I apologize for my late response. The department of art and design at Southern Illinois University Carbondale used to do this, so I know it’s possible. I’ve been told that generally there is some degradation which requires a certain percentage of “virgin” or unused PLA to be mixed in to maintain quality.

Update: Purdue Northwest's Hammond Campus is finishing up a senior design project which includes making a shredder and injection molding machine. They hope to use it to start a recycling workshop on campus.

Hello All! Just wanted to introduce myself. I live in the western suburbs of Chicago, and I'm looking to potentially collab on projects in the future, and otherwise work on a business model based on upcycling and waste reduction. I'm also looking to buy 100% recycled 3d printer filament for my job, if anyone knows anyone lol. (edited)

Welcome !!

Bumblestuff

@Plastic Paradigm I’m just beginning my research, but I’m an artist so would love to be able to recycle material to use alongside involving my community, in various ways. Chicago “recycles”, but do they actually?

Hi @Bumblestuff & @kaioh!!! I'm ALSO in Chicago and have been looking for a Precious Plastic Community! I have a bunch of ideas and would love to collaborate!!!!!

11:18 PM

Hello @Moxy and the Fruitbats!!! I'm in Chi!!!!

11:22 PM

@bubba, @adamj537 - I'd love to hear more about how it's going for you! I'm in Chi!

11:22 PM

@rbercich LOVE ur stuff - a visit to your workshop would be super fantastic! I LOVE a road trip! (edited)

Daisylynn

@bubba, @adamj537 - I'd love to hear more about how it's going for you! I'm in Chi!

My group is fundraising to build a shredder. Extrusion machine is in the middle of an upgrade while we wait.

3:25 AM

In case anyone recalls, we're a group of makers without a space yet. But that may change soon! We just started favorable talks with the local university to host us. Just our meetings for now, but they have a few buildings that could be turned into a community workshop if the relationship goes well.

That’s FANTASTIC!!!!

Hey everyone. We are doing a demonstration/awareness event in Park Forest , Il on September 17/18 for the annual Art Fest, if you want to come check it out. I’d love to meet some of my peeps. DM for details

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Súper great first day at the art fest! Please come out if you can. Loads of plastic recycling convos. Got some emails to start a news letter and keep the fire lit. People want to do recycling better.

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Anyone one here close to MO?

winn1994

Hi everyone in #illinois I live in Chicago and would like to collaborate with people in the area. I’ve got designs I’d like to get injection molded from recycled material. I have a precision sla 3D printer that can print molds for us to inject into. I can make the molds in about a day at low cost. Anyone interested in working together? I have the cash to buy an injector, but I live downtown and don’t have space for the machine.

Hey! I actually found something that might be like of interest to do. Also- I have a garage so I have the space I am in Albany park.

7:30 PM

Hello, my name is Priscilla. I recently found a maker’s cooperative work environment with SO MANY TOOOOOLS. And I went to their open house last night. It was really neat but they have an insane amount of tools for community use open 24/7 and i want to build a shredder. (There is a monthly fee of $50 per month but that’s nothing compared to the amount of offerings they have and it’s a learning environment) but they also do like community voting on stuff I’m not sure how often but they put things to votes on buying machinery too. But they do 3D printing / sewing / CNC / everything you could want out of wood working, hot metals, cold metals/ welding/ small metals etc. I think there is room for the plastics world in there but yeah. If anyone has experience in building things or would like to team up on a project and are in Chicago I would love to work together!

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Pollypockey

Hello, my name is Priscilla. I recently found a maker’s cooperative work environment with SO MANY TOOOOOLS. And I went to their open house last night. It was really neat but they have an insane amount of tools for community use open 24/7 and i want to build a shredder. (There is a monthly fee of $50 per month but that’s nothing compared to the amount of offerings they have and it’s a learning environment) but they also do like community voting on stuff I’m not sure how often but they put things to votes on buying machinery too. But they do 3D printing / sewing / CNC / everything you could want out of wood working, hot metals, cold metals/ welding/ small metals etc. I think there is room for the plastics world in there but yeah. If anyone has experience in building things or would like to team up on a project and are in Chicago I would love to work together!

Pumping Station:One? Southside Makers?

Shoot and here Priscilla I was hoping you we’re talking about the one in Milwaukee