• tonyn@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2 months

    I think they came out pretty good, but I have a lot more poo than craft projects!

      • Mpatch@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2 months

        How do you think they been getting that crunch in cinnamon toast crunch all these years…

  • Natanox@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    2 months

    Sending it to Recyclingfabrik in Germany. Unfortunately access to high-quality filament recycling companies is very much dependent on your location.

    • ifmu@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 months

      Nothing like a little floating plastic pile in the middle of an ocean can’t fix.

  • funbreaker@piefed.socialEnglish
    2 months

    I had to double check the comm after I saw the title. I have probably had enough Internet for today

    • tonyn@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2 months

      This is awesome, thank you! Now I need to learn silicone mold making 🤔

    • CIA_chatbot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 months

      This! Grind it down to granules with a cheap food processor and use it in molds with a heat gun

      • Bronzebeard@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2 months

        A heat gun!

        That’s the piece I’ve been missing. I’ve been using a spare toaster oven, but can never get the amount of plastic right for the mold lid to sit right. Finishing with a heat gun would probably make this easier to solve

        • CIA_chatbot@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2 months

          Yup! And you can melt the plastic in layers so you get a nice solid core, or fill the very center with rocks or weights or what have you to reduce how much plastic is in it.

          I would recommend getting some heat prof material to set the mold on, in, and some heat proof gloves as well in case you need to use a small metal bar to move the melting plastic around

          Bonus points for separating your plastic into colors, lets you do some cool swirly affects and what not vs. just a mishmash of colored specks

  • Remy Rose@piefed.socialEnglish
    2 months

    Our makerspace shreds it all (by type of course) into flakes, but doesn’t have a use for those yet unfortunately… The handful of companies recycling it are too far away. However, at some point we want to pick up an injection molding machine for it, when we have the funds.

    That is, except for the PHA (Polyhydroxyalkanoates), I just take that home and compost it.

  • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2 months

    I was actually just looking at this last night and I think the best two options are melting into silicon molds and embedding into resin in silicon molds. Uncle Jessy has a good tutorial on YouTube of both the former and latter.

  • Bluewing@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

    They make great kitten toys based on the rate my wife’s 2 rescue kittens enjoy stealing them out of the poop box.