“You Buy Your Lids”… we really don’t!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 พ.ค. 2024
- As a follow up to our last HDPE video, we thought we'd show you guys where we get all our HDPE from, how we clean it and what we have built to store it. What do you think?! This is a super easy build that anyone can do with minimal tools required. We can't wait to build more of them!
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Can I kidnap you guys and bring you to Wales? This is amazing, would love to be able to really recycle plastic into useful items
Haha! Thank you 🤙🏽 give it a go for sure!
I agree with you missgroves
After that you're welcome to come to Ireland
Dude, you guys even break down how to make your shelf. Y'all are seriously awesome.
Thanks Lads! I'm a DT teacher in Aus and are in the process of introducing an entire course of study in sustainability. Going to use you channel with my students. Keep it up!
That’s awesome! We hope they love it!
That jig you made to cut the bottles is genius.
It took about 3 seconds to assemble!
@@BrothersMake Working smarter, not harder!
Awesome! Thanks so much. I am a STEM teacher and setting up a makerspace right now. This is a fantastic idea! Please make more videos like this
Mustard bottle to dispense glue. Love it :) Your videos have been great for those of us who just want to do it at home. One Army is great and all, but their approach seems to cost thousands of dollars and lots of technical knowhow to get started. You've made it feel much more accessible, and I've gotten some great ideas for my garage recycling.
The tear at the end made it particularly excellent. Anne
That is such a satisfying-looking collection! Excellent!
Thank you! Always got to organise by colour!
I've been trying to sneak around my town at night before recycling day (in the morning) and steal plastic.
Haha! Better to just get in contact with your neighbours and ask if they wouldn’t mind saving them for you!
The best place to find these in bulk are in car shops, the oil container is made out of these and there is plenty of colors
@@kendarr How do you clean out the remaining oil out of the empty oil container??
@@rsauve999 a lot of water and good soap, usually lime soap, i can buy them in bars here. Wash what you can with it still in one piece, and then i cut it in half, and wash the halfs, i have a sponge just for that too, using that abrasive side, i know its clean when my finger dosen't slide on it and it smells nice lol
@@kendarr you could also put it in the washing machine for good measure afterwards
great work, keep fighting to clean the environment in your creative ways. this is awesome.
The washing machine trick 👌is genius
Cheers Tommy 🤙🏼
HDPE are collected by people in Poland and then dropped at heart shaped containers which are in from of shopping malls and churches. The profit from selling them goes to charity. Today I dropped a bag of them at one of these containers.
You guys have one of the most thought out engaging videos I’ve ever seen. So easy I’m seriously boutta start next paycheck
Storage looks great. We found cleaning is really important with milk lids, or else smell develops after a couple of days. Thanks
Yes absolutely! Mesh bags are your friends 👍🏼
Nice! I love your videos and creativity using plastic. Here in Mexico, we collect the plastic bottle water lids and donate to organizations to pay for cancer treatments for kids.
Same in Poland. People collect lids and throw them into charity containers. I emptied my lids today. About 0.5kg collected.
You guys are so great =) What a pleasure to visit your well crafted channel ✊💛🌻
Thank you!
Guys you are great!
Your channel and ideas are amazing guys. It would be nice seeing you recycling and reusing other materials, like PET, aluminium, cardboard, and so on. Writing to you from Argentina, a country with huge waste management problems. Ideas like these ones would help a lot.
Thanks! We would like to try other materials at some point!
Brilliant! You're cute and creative and I love it! I have a large colorful bottle cap collection for a project I envision: an interactive, magnetize bottle cap mosaics.
Thanks Lili! And that sounds awesome 😍
It's amazing how talented you 2 are 🤩
Beautiful job Brothers! I particularly liked the bottle lids rolling in at the start :)
Haha thank you mate! We had extra help with that shot! 😉😂
El mejor vídeo que pude ver en mi vida, gracias por compartir sus conocimientos y demostrarle a las personas y al mundo que hay más alternativas para el plástico
I’ve been thinking of recycling items into something new recently and you guys have really motivated me to do it with these informative videos, love it❤️
Awesome! Thanks :)
Thank you so much for your incredibly well informed videos. I'm planning on trying my hand at making some small things out of HDPE myself.
I've collected a bunch of bottle caps, and managed to sort the ones with the '2' in the triangle - but I've also found some which have the letter 'B' in a triangle. I'm in the UK too, I imagine you've come across these as well?
Pepsi are so good at marking their regular black caps with a '2' but why not their red and gold ones????!!! So frustrating.
Thanks for the comment! we have come across the ones with the ‘B’ also. It’s very hard to tell what these are as they seems very similar to HDPE ♻️2 but could well be LDPE ♻️4. We never take the risk and mix different grades together. It is very frustrating when you have to put caps in the recycling bin because they aren’t well marked but it’s better to be safe than to risk ruining a whole batch of plastic!
Good luck!
Washing machine in mesh bags were my first thought! I have a sports park where I can see I am going to have endless caps in the sideline sand.
Thank you 😊
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Great video guys! Love to see more projects with HDPE plastics!
Thanks!
Nice tips. I have a lot of HDPE myself. Containers and caps. My milk jugs are HDPE also as well as many other containers for things I routinely buy. Also the bags I take things home in are HDPE as well so I use them to store large containers. I get Nike shoe boxes from a friend which are great for storing cut up HDPE containers as well. - Heidi
Great tips! Thanks Heidi
Cool, reminds me of an old fashioned sweet shop 👍
Haha true! Thanks
Awesome stuff Guys! 😃👍🏻👍🏻👊🏻👊🏻
Thanks Fred!
Great enjoyable video again and Lots of good info guys. 👍
Thanks John
Nice video guys👍 keep up the great content 👊
Thanks! 👍🏼👍🏼
Wow it's just what I needed
You read my mind!!!!
Glad we could help!
Just discovered you today. You guys are genius
Thank you!! 😇😇
Keep up the good work guys
Thanks Darren 👌🏼
You guys are amazing ❤️
Thank you!
That's cool I make plastic waffles with hdpe...I like the rack
Any thoughts on using bottles to make "string/yarn/rope" and adding those to projects? Could show how yall create a jig to cut the bottles
You are great!!
To remove labels easily, fill the bottle with the hottest water you have and it softens the adhesive and often removes most of the adhesive with the label. I do this mainly with milk jugs and shampoo bottles as it cleans them as well as removing the labels.
To remove any residuals of anything from a jug or container like dried milk or laundry soap, pour a cup of play sand and or pea gravel in the jug with the hottest water you have and shake it. You can add soap if you want.
To remove stuff from lids, fill a five gallon bucket with the hottest water you have and get a drill and a paint stirring attachment and go to town. Add soap if needed. Rinse and repeat.
Hope this helps someone.
Great tips! Thanks
This is awesome and you guys break it down so well so that anyone can do it. I was wondering about the methods to melt the plastic. Would putting it in a pot over a low heat work as well? I'm thinking large pot on the BBQ outside and just keep adding the plastic as it melts down.
👍👍👏👏very nice & cool vedio🍺
Wow amazing
Thanks guys.
No, thank you!
¡ Genial idea, gracias!
Thanks very much!
Hi guys I’m fairly local to you and I help run a beaver and cubs group.
I would like to encourage them to recycle so I was thinking of getting them to collect the plastic you can reuse and show them what’s possible with recycling 👍🏻
Hey Tom. Interesting idea! Could you send us an email at hello@brothersmake.com and we’ll chat more 🤙🏽
You two have really come a long way since I first started watching your videos. You have really developed. It's great to see. I'd like to see/hear a little bit more about how you setup the people to collect for you? For example the office buildings that you said were saving tops for you. Who did you need to talk to to get that started? Here in Portland Oregon we have The Rooster and also Nextdoor. I've had a tiny bit of luck with placing an ad on The Rooster asking for people to save their HDPE for me.
Thanks man! The majority of our lids that we get come from students at my school. I run competitions with them to see which tutor group can collect the most. With the office buildings and cafe’s we usually get contacted by them to see if we are interested in taking their lids. We use Facebook a lot and post in a lot of zero waste and eco groups and we get a lot of interest from there. Hope hay helps!
@@BrothersMake Thank you for the great response. You guys ROCK!
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Great tips!
Thanks!
Great channel, I'll be sure to show some Patreon love.
I believe that by washing the plastic in a washing machine you do end up leaking some microplastics into the water system. I don't know exactly how to get around this though. I recently read a research paper about using recycled plastic for 3D printing (my long term goal) and it sounded like they were using an ethanol soak and letting it evaporate. Maybe even just rinsing and water and letting evaporate would be better? Takes a while though. I'm planning to shred first before trying this method also. Thanks for your insights and efforts on this frontier.
Hey! Thanks so much for your comment and feedback. Good points raised, if you still have it we'd love to see the research paper, sounds like an interesting read and definitely something for us to consider!
i love you guys
love it!!
Thanks!
Do you have to use a mesh bag in the washing machine? Obviously it will take longer to empty without one.
Thanks for a great Video!
Very Kool channel boyzzz🤙🏽
Thanks!
Very smart. Thank you 😁
Thanks!
U should make ur stored plastic into 3d printing filaments or glue stick rods
Save space n everything
Beautiful storage!
4:50 - this reminds me of a thing i was trying to perfect making rope from PET bottles, but I could never get the blade or bottles to stay in the right place .... Not sure if you do requests but maybe you could have a crack at it? I was then going to weave the rope into a net to make a DIY hammock for all this beautiful weather we're having.... just a few thoughts!
Great video, keep up the hard work
That’s really interesting. We’ll check it out. Thanks for watching!
That's a great system for processing and storing the HDPE, we've done a lot of projects with recycled materials and you've inspired us to give HDPE a try. Thanks guys!
Awesome! Look forward to seeing what you guys come up with!
Ups, I've dropped a comment!
I love your videos. I have been wanting to try my hand at recycling plastic. I see that you all do alot of HDPE, but do you have any experience doing some of the other plastics? The plastic that seems to be easiest to find seems to be PETE. But I can't really find anything about recycling it
Boys I have a very messy workshop that needs your love and attention to organising !!! x
Haha, we’ll be right over!
I loved your videos on HDPE, I've been colecting it recently and it's quite surprising that there ir HDPE in a lot of things but I'm a little confused on it too because I often can't find the HDPE logo in the lids of some specific products, sometimes they're there, sometimes they're not and it's the same product. What do you do about it?, what do you do with lids that don't have any logo on them?
You guys, Indonesi need to come here dude
We have lot of plastics you need
Hey i haven't seen a video form you guys in a hot minute!
We try to get them out as quick as possible! The next one shouldn’t be too far away 👍🏼
@@BrothersMake awsome cant wait! You guys are so fun to watch.
Heya there- lim a huge fan of your recycling and i wanted to start myself. Theres some HDPE all around but im also running into alot of PP (5) do you not recommend melting this and reusing it again or is it possible to also use? :)
thanks for your tips guys! What about the silicon bits inside some lids? How to easy get rid of those? Thanks
Yeah you can’t use any lids that have those bits inside. We recycle them and move onto the next 👍🏼
Is it pretty much any plastic lid that can be used for this. I have started collecting lids cause I want to make a couple of fountain pens and clutch pencils. Normally I hate anything plastic cause it is plastic but if I can recycle some into something useful, that would be awesome. Thanks for the inspirational video
Do you think if you were to place children wire in between two layers of hot plastic you could mold the plastic into a desired shape without the product being thick for stability?
Your stuff is amazing! I live in the US and the soda bottle lids here have the inner liner sort of molded into the lid rather than just popping out. Do you have any suggestions on how to easily remove these liners? I assume they shouldn't be used in melting the lids. Thanks.
These are incredibly difficult to remove and we haven’t found a solution to this unfortunately!
Try making different types of school supplies or porker chips
We've actually had poker chips on our list for a while now 👌🏼
Nice one chaps 😀👍
Just wondering , I cut up all the bottles that are HDPE, like shampoo, bleach etc.... Do you and do you have separate storage for it?
They will all end up organised by colour on this rack. However we have a big box that all the plastic goes into before we have time to cut up bigger bottles or sort them onto the rack. You can get some great colours from shampoo and soap bottles but they just take more time to process! 👍🏼👍🏼
@@BrothersMake The colours you get are pretty cool and you get some great combinations. I'm experimenting all the time with my small stash of HDPE.
@@BrothersMake How do you cut your bottles? Bottles are where we get most of ours, not caps...
I see you have a Marshal Does Stuff sticker :)
Hey guys great video I have a bunch of plastic bottles layign around that I didn't want to thrown in teh recycle bin or landfill but a lot of them are PET/PETE bottles with a "1" in the recycle logo. Is there a big difference between these two materials when melting? Thanks and great creative vids on plastics upcycles!
Thanks for the comment! PET/PETE is a thermoplastic, therefore recyclable. However I don’t think this process would work as it does with HDPE. But there for sure is a way it can be heated as broken down. Check out Precious Plastic 👍🏼
@@BrothersMake ah ok that makes sense thanks for the reply and recommendation further into the plastics rabbit hole I go😁
We fell down that hole about 3 years ago 😂
Regards from Costa Rica I found you youtube channel tonight, I hope you design more products coming from plastic, I am recycling here in my country, you have brilliant ideas, keep working
Thank you Eduardo! We'd love to see some of the things you've made 😊
I’ve been collecting plastic lids for a while and once I started sorting them I realized most of them don’t have the little recycling triangle on them with the number so I can’t figure out if they’re HDPE or not. Any tips on how to figure this out??! I’d love to start doing this but don’t know how to get around this problem!
Are Nescafé jar lids useable as they don't have the recycling logo or number on them, also can the actual milk bottles be used?
I bet you could melt the caps into flat discs for more efficient storage of the caps.
Possibly but that would take a LOT of work!
Have you tried making stuff from UPVC windows ? I see thousands of them put in a skip each week
I have a question. Would using a top loader washing machine for washing the plastic be a bad idea? They have that spinning thing in the middle that side loaders don’t have, and I wonder if that makes it not safe for the washing machine.
What do you guys do with the bottles that you take the caps from?
We don’t buy plastic bottles ourselves. The caps are donated from others
How do you dry the lids and stuff? Also what if there isn't a triangle with the number in it?
Either just in the sun, or drip-dry 👍🏽 if there’s no visible resin identification code, we done use it.
Are you able to mix LDPE with HDPE for melts?
We don’t tend to but have tried melting LDPE and it works very similar so in theory it might work
Cute little shelf! We just sorted through all our reds and greens of collected tabs from the beach and we were shocked to see how little of them actually were labeled (maybe 1/5th 😱). Some of them pretty much looked and felt like HDPE...so my questions is: do u only recycle the clearly labeled ones or do to also take a guess (I guess u must be pretty good at detecting different plastics by now with all ur experience). Or is the danger of contaminating the batch too high?
Thanks a bunch,
Nike
#inmoceanforcleanoceans
It's such a pain isn't it! We actually only recycle them if they're clearly marked because as you say, we wouldn't want to contaminate the batch and therefore make that new product non-recyclable. There are a few ways out there of detecting them, check out our recent FAQ video where we go into this topic in a little more detail 😀
What can you do with plastic bottles besides using them for a container? can you make a video about that?
laundry detergent bottles are a way to get "4" in large quantities
Yep! Although don’t mix ♻️2 and ♻️4!
Ok, I've not tried it myself, but I have seen others say LDPE & HDPE can be melted and mixed ????
How do you get the wax seals out of bottle caps?
Unfortunately this is very difficult to do, so we usually aren’t able to use those lids
Why use the bag in washing machine? Would the lids get in between the seals?
Hey lads only just stumbled upon your channel are you from sussex or dorset?
Brilliant idea
Dorset. Thanks!
If i don’t see any number on plastic (australia lipton ice tea cups) how can i determine if it is HDPE).? Thx
Do you also r3cycle HDPE bottles as well?
You guys should really make a hdpe shelf
Nice idea!
hi there , ive been collection many till now but i dont know how to recycle them or what can do can u help
Check out our beginners guide to HDPE - that should answer your questions!
@@BrothersMakethx alot
Are there other ways the kids are marked? I have looked under every lid an plastic bottle in my entire house an have only found 1 bottle with the 2 inside of the triangle. Please help me.
Maybe we’re lucky in the UK, about 80% of our lids are marked. You can tell them apart using a simple design test - this can be done using water of different levels of salinity. We want to do a video on this one day
Can I use water bottle caps with milk bottle caps ?
do you only use HDPE for recycling?
Is there a way we can ship plastic to them?
Probably a stupid question but on milk jugs I see the hdpe logo on the bottom of the jug but don’t see any logo on the cap is the bottle cap also hdpe ?
In the UK milk bottles and the bottle lids are both HDPE. But we never use anything that isn't clearly marked.
Thanks for replying it appears that way across the pond in the us I melted down some milk jugs and the lids melted well too
Can the plastic be tossed in the dishwasher for it to be used for food?
Not for eating, but for food safe bowls or plates?
Q. You seem to use lids mostly. Why?
Are you able to melt down plastic that's been made brittle in the sun?
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