Discussion Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: rachel on May 05, 2025, 09:42:23 pm
Title: DIY recycling
Post by: rachel on May 05, 2025, 09:42:23 pm
Found this interesting video of people turning shards of glass into marbles. I wonder what other things people could make out of recycled materials like this?
Title: Re: DIY recycling
Post by: Fishmé on May 07, 2025, 12:36:57 pm
Found this interesting video of people turning shards of glass into marbles. I wonder what other things people could make out of recycled materials like this?
Oooo! I'm such a fan of upcycling. Dang, I could really get into that shit if there was the machines easily accessible to process stuff.
Title: Re: DIY recycling
Post by: rachel on May 09, 2025, 12:51:10 am
Found this interesting video of people turning shards of glass into marbles. I wonder what other things people could make out of recycled materials like this?
Oooo! I'm such a fan of upcycling. Dang, I could really get into that shit if there was the machines easily accessible to process stuff.
We gotta build the machines ourselves! The only way it'll be accessible is if we design them and make the plans open source so anyone else can replicate it. Recycling should be local
Title: Re: DIY recycling
Post by: Fishmé on May 11, 2025, 03:32:43 pm
Found this interesting video of people turning shards of glass into marbles. I wonder what other things people could make out of recycled materials like this?
Oooo! I'm such a fan of upcycling. Dang, I could really get into that shit if there was the machines easily accessible to process stuff.
We gotta build the machines ourselves! The only way it'll be accessible is if we design them and make the plans open source so anyone else can replicate it. Recycling should be local
Bet. I'm free all summer, put this girl to work, Rachel. 😘😜
Title: Re: DIY recycling
Post by: rachel on May 15, 2025, 11:10:42 pm
This guy made his own gas station that converts plastic waste into crude oil and then he refines it??? "This is a vacuum microwave pyrolysis reactor" Mad scientist shit
Short introduction video:
Full video:
Title: Re: DIY recycling
Post by: Fishmé on May 22, 2025, 01:14:26 am
This guy made his own gas station that converts plastic waste into crude oil and then he refines it??? "This is a vacuum microwave pyrolysis reactor" Mad scientist shit
Short introduction video:
Full video:
This is so F***ING cool!!
Title: Re: DIY recycling
Post by: rachel on June 01, 2025, 11:56:44 pm
Recycling glass uses 41% less energy than producing new glass, and recycling aluminum uses 96% less energy than producing from ore 🤯🤯🤯
Title: Re: DIY recycling
Post by: rachel on June 15, 2025, 11:53:39 pm
Video explaining how to use cardboard as a building material. By gluing layers of cardboard together with wheat paste you can create rigid panels which are then covered with a waterproofing layer.
Shows several chairs and bookcases made from recycled cardboard
Title: Re: DIY recycling
Post by: ThePedalMan998 on June 16, 2025, 11:26:48 pm
This may be very useful for making velomobile skin.
Title: Re: DIY recycling
Post by: rachel on July 10, 2025, 02:28:22 pm
Recycling styrofoam into molded plastic using acetone
Title: Re: DIY recycling
Post by: Fishmé on July 27, 2025, 08:16:04 pm