How to recycle plastics at home and earn

Look at the garbage bin and you will find a lot of plastic bottles, wrappers, broken plastic furnitures, containers, toys and the like. They are,as we all think, useless. But, discarded plastics can be recycled into useful pieces of art and can be a business at home.

Instructions

Difficulty: Challenging

Things You’ll Need:

• Gathered discarded plastic containers, bottles-all sorts, metal containment for boiling, burner, match, open air barn or garage, long-handled metal dipper,water, blower/cooler and various molds

Step1

Gather all kinds of discarded plastics at home, clean them up with water and soap and let dry. Segregate these items, sort them out and categorize as to colors.

Step2

Prepare a plan on what to do with the plastics you would like to recycle.
Your intentions may be for Art, Kitchen tools, toys etc., if so, prepare various molds and see to it that these molds are ready during the process.
Be sure to think also of the color combinations you like to appear after the recycling process.

Step3

Get ready with your mounted burner, powerful enough to hold a metal containment full of plastics for melting. Place plastics inside the metal containment and start the fire burning. Melt the plastics and be ready with the metal dipper.

Step4

For safety, use of heavy duty gloves, goggles, long-sleeved shirts and apron is highly recommended.

The designed molds must be flat ready for the transfer of boiling plastics.

Step5

When ready, dip the metal dipper slowly into the boiling containment and transfer the boiling plastics into the molds carefully in order to avoid wastage. Let the molds dry and continue with other designs you like.

Step6

The newly molded plastics when dry and cold could now be taken out from the format and make some finishing touches. If the desired output is not met, just throw these molded plastics again to the boiling containment. So on and so forth.

Step7

Now, you can have beads, toys of sorts, knife handles, key holders, images, decorative designs like frames etc. Is it not challenging? It just needs sorts of wild imaginations.

Tips & Warnings

• For designs, you have to prepare a catalog and the materials needed in order not to consume time and your work goes smoothly.
• Do not waste every material
• Encourage neighbors to do the same
• Fumes could be dangerous if inhaled
• Keep away from children
• Smoke could pollute
• After the process, clean up the area and put off fire