Recycling Plastic from Keyboards & E-Waste
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 พ.ค. 2020
- E-Waste plastic recycling is difficult because of the different types of polymers that are contained within it so many plastic recyclers don't want to deal with it.
Thankfully I have a good place to take mine and ensure it gets properly recycled and the resources recovered.
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I am really pleased to see at least some of the plastic waste gets recycled. :)
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That was fascinating and I loved that it actually are recycling down to the different elements that go into the product. Very responsible! Thanks for having a tour!
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Thank you for showing us this process! I, for one, would of never had a chance to see this! Thanks again!
ooo that was fun! 😊 wow those keyboard came out as lego! 😳 bet your glad to be rid of em! shows that you're making a difference ben! 😊 bloody good job you found them!
Very cool! It’s great to see the plastic getting recycled!
Thanks for sharing Ben. Nice to see a plastic recycling plant in action. Cheers and be safe!
That was really cool to watch the process!!
Have a GREAT Day My Friend!!!
Very cool to see, thank you for showing and explaining! :D
Your follow-up video's Ben are many times top shelf old chap. Well done for not only thinking what will be from other users but out there from you!
This made me incredibly happy! Nice going Ben!
Awesome video. Loved the factory tour.
Wow, that's awesome!! Nice to see you plastics getting rested. Pretty Sweet!!!
Good work, scrapping, making money and saving the planet all at the same time. I still need a board buyer here in Sydney. Thanks Ben
I love your videos Ben, I love the content and your accent makes it even better. Don't stop making videos. Cheers!
Always good to see scrappers finding more ways to leave less waste!
A service like that gives you a way to separate a lot of stuff that might otherwise just clog up your trash cans - keyboards, mice, remotes - anything that you might get during pickups but that's otherwise not worth breaking down for your shop.
The other thing that occurs to me is that since they've already started with a grinder, the steel they generate with this is already basically Frag, which means the yards buying it from them don't have to do much with it before they can sell it on to their own customers.
Thanks for the look inside, Ben!
Another great, informative video!
Thanks for showing us what can be done with e waste.
Love your videos Ben 👍
Good to see the process!
You are doing a great service.
Wow, thanks for sharing. Good insight!
Great Video Ben Keep Bringing The Videos Dude Can't Wait To See Your Street Scrapping Videos👍👍
Very cool Been!! That was neat being at the plant!
Thanks for the field trip ben
Love your work.
That's great that your plastic won't end up in the landfill. Your the man Ed !
Very good video Ben. I love Australia's approach to waste management. I can only hope Canada gets there one day.
Awesome video mate!
Top shelf video Ben 👍🏼👌🏼😎
👍💪💰👊 Thanks for showing that. Cool video!
A very interesting video Ben keep them coming
Man, that was awesome, thanks.
3:00 Boy, That's a lot of Silver Mylars being wasted!
Silver mylars in the keyboards?..
@Tater....yes!
Thank you for this video👍
Most of those keyboards are better than the one I'm using to type this :p Shame really as they are probably OK but people want new ones when they buy a new computer
Yeah, so often it's things like offices/universities/institutions that replace all of their hardware every few years and throw away the old stuff whether it's good or not. My friend is in the Canadian Armed Forces, and she says her office gets new chairs and even staplers and hole punches every couple years just to spend the budget so it doesn't get cut for the next year.
Im currently using a keyboard I picked up scrapping :)
I kill my keyboards pretty regularly. I also write about 2 million words a year.
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I'm using a mouse that I found in the battery recycling bin!
@@ImranZakhaev9 nice! I have a really cool old-style keyboard (clicky chunky keys with feedback I had in my youth) I found with the cable cut off. I've done some preliminary research, and I should be able to connect a USB cable to it. huzzah! Pretty sure it was PS2 but its just a wiring issue - no circuit required.
Great video thank you
Good to see this gets recycled. Informative!
I hope you show more of this process. thanks
I like these short little edited numbers before I head to work
Great video
I used to use a big Cumberland B60 grinder to do plastics followed up by a powerful electromagnet. Ferrous is attracted, plastic is going right through, and the nonferrous is kicked away. They each went to a tared Gaylord container. Sort by type. ABS pellets get an awful lot if they are clean and metal free😁😎
Shredders and crushers are always great to see my own granulator is just a little one but just as much fun i always enjoy it when im operating
Really cool how it works
Great content 👍 Keep them coming! Felt like I was watching PBS learning channel lol!
Good job. Nice informative video. I see you've got work lined up. Stay safe and will be watching for your next video. P.S. the hens looked very content. Love their Cacklberries for breakfast 😁👍👍
👍good to see it’s not being buried 👍
love it
nice one and yeah that what recycling is all about agree nothing can get wasted 👍😀👍
that's awesome
That's awesome
Good video
Nice chickens
There is a french company CARBIOS that create a enzyme to recycle the palstic. We are at the point that we must use every waste we create to make a blue economie. Every waste we create must have a issue to make it profitable. CARBIOS may be very useful for this plastic i hope we can recycle and grow our business... Take care "coucou" from frenchies 😋
here in Ireland there is a company that buys the plastic by the tonne, great video as alway@eWaste Ben
Nice shred Ted.
7:16 the keyboard with white keys is a Unicomp Model M keyboard (based on the original IBM model M)
They sell for like 60-100 dollars.
We are lucky here in Ontario, Canada. It's SUPER easy to recycle that stuff here. :) Thanks to a government program put in place a number of years ago. Good to see you have found a solution there though.
@@playandgrowtv9846 Most of that will go to the landfill sadly. At least 50% of what people put in the bins here doesn't get recycled. Like, the hard plastics that are used for computer cases, keyboards, etc. goes right to the dump. Because we don't have a recycling plant for that type of plastic close enough to the city/town. However, if you recycle the full component at an ewaste recycling place, it'll get done properly. That is the purpose of the fee you get charged when you buy new electronics/computers/other items. It pays for that type of thing. I hope I explained that properly. I am pretty tired right now.
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Could it really be 50%?? I worked in a recycling facility in Nova Scotia and the end of the recycling conveyor belt (that goes to landfill) was nearly empty, only things like small broken glass dirty/contaminated things, and things that just didn't belong (Tim's cups, straws, ceramic, bottle caps, etc.) Actually went to the landfill. If people recycled perfectly, then we would recycle nearly 100%.
@@ImranZakhaev9 In Ontario, yes. It really is that high. Where I live, no hard plastics of ANY kind, no plastic bags, etc., etc.. It's pretty sad really. Even in the city of Ottawa the list of plastics that can't be recycled is quite long. I assume in Toronto you would have better luck though.
i would love to pick up what i want even if its broken in these e-waste recycling places. 😄
"Alright, alright, alright" Now I am deaf ya, but thanks anyway for the video Ben 😂😂😂 Stay healthy and greets from Bearlin 😉
Thanks for the warning! Came just in time.
@@genli5603 Time and again gladly. 😉
What a awesome machine. I wish they had that system here. I just paid 350.00 for a 20yard dumpster to get rid of my plastic.
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The processing and separating is an improvement, right off the top. Starting with the metals separation. They are sourcing a stream of given value from what was otherwise junk. The junk has been reduced to only the plastics which itself has been reduced in volume by being broken up. But before anyone at all can go off and have a big pull about it, it might be that the plastics might merely be poured into power station furnaces rather than being closed loop recycled. But it might also have come to be that the plastics might be of sufficient volume and sufficiently separated into various grades to be dispatched to manufacturers for processing into new electronics and electrical products. But such would be more likely in Europe, and this is not Europe.
i really enjoyed this episode, to see it gets processed to some extent in Australia even.
do you know what happens to the hard rubbish collected by the council? is it all tipped or does it get processed to some degree or sorted?
Great video. What happened to those dozens of new-in-box keyboards you got from the mega-office pickup? Did you find a buyer, or did they end up getting shredded?
i have researched for a while and found some plastic buyers, only issue i ran into was i have to fill a 40 ton shipping container. I can fill it up, but i have nowhere to store the container until its full...
Awesome Ben - thank you for taking us there. Please tell them your viewers said thank you. Do you know what they do with the plastic? U.S. viewers - is anyone aware of a similar facility near NE Florida?
At one time there was a company in Atlanta that picked up complete electronics at our scrap yard here in bham. They would only come when they had a full semi load.. same with plastics and glass. But the plastic and glass had to be shredded and crushed. But we have a saying here, when you die you will have to go through Atlanta before you get to heaven or hell. Lol
On a side note, don't know if you know of not, Marty of the channel that led me to yours, his wife has tested positive for the virus. She's very sick, his oldest daughter is showing symptoms as is he.
If you get a chance pull up his last vid. Thanks brother
@@donniebrown2896 Oh man, very sorry to hear about Marty's wife and daughter. I'll go check his latest...and drop a prayer for them.
A better way to keep plastic out of the landfill. Reuse the plastic you can make plastic lumber. Here's a recipe for plastic lumber 70%polypropylene 30%polyethylene and 10%baking soda then all you need is a screw injection press and the molds to make 2x4s, 2x6s, 2x8s, 2x10s ,2x12s, 4x4s, 4x6s ,2x2s, even 1x4s all the way to 1x10s. And the molds can be cooled down with antifreeze, and the molds should be made from Chrome steel it holds up much better under pressure. Size of chrome steel should be 2 inches thick for proper cooling temperature. This is free information for making plastic lumber. This should be shared . Protect God land
You recover the gold from the mouses a lot in them😊
BTW, Ben = is this going to be a better way for you to destroy security gear if you end up with another shed full of it, since it's a "destructive material separation" method?
Yes very cool, i found a place that will come buy my plastic by the semi truck load for 20 dollars a ton. But I don't have room to store or time to clean and sort it so it goes into the trash. Technically my local recycling company should take it but if they aren't sure or if it's too dirty or big they don't bother with it.
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2:50 so many cords there....
Jw, why didnt you cut off the cords first?
Hi Ben i am out of Germany and i like your Videos can you do a bog scrap Marathon pls because that s my favourite Videos thank you Ben for your nice Videos
Nice 👍 like.🌺
What about all those cords?
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I inherited a house full of old electronics and I have about 50 or so keyboards. Are some of the really old (early 80s) keyboards worth keeping? Also, what kind of camera setup do you use? Great videos BTW
Check the prices on Ebay for the SOLD keyboards. I had a really old one and the best I could get was $42 on an action, the rest of them I had to scrap after waiting for a year for somebody to make me an offer.
10:16 that is an eMac. We used those for a few years
I've seen eWaste recyclers BANNED by scrap yards for mixing plastic and refuse with the light steel that they were bringing in. Scrap yards depsie that terrible habit !!!
Nice ! what is the name and location of this business that does the " Plastic Recycling" in Melbourne Victoria Australia? Thxs
I ben Did you get paid for the plastic?
So why didnt you process all those wires? Are they not any good?
The keyboards with wires wouldnt be his
I want to SEE that nothing goes to landfill; I want to see what they do with the various plastics!
At 0.05-0.15 grams of silver per keyboard...my stacker heart weeps for all the silver getting washed away.
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rinoz47 while I agree that it will be recovered...I would personally spend the 2 minutes to pull the mylar and small board. Granted I have a small hammer mill to snag up the boards
Hi Ben - great video! Do you have the company name or details so other scrapper can take their plastics in? Or do they only accept really big quantities or not want today much to deal with yet..
*too - not today, sorry guys
They don't take plastic from the public, this is mostly for processing their own stuff.
@@eWasteBen Thanks Ben!
It’s hard to recycle this stuff when no one has a monetary incentive to do so. Shame most of it goes into landfills.
Lol. When we get the technology, we will be digging up landfills for their scrap metals and rare earth elements and burning the dry organics for energy.
@@genli5603 There's already a move to just drying and burning 'non-recyclable' waste for energy, and then running metal recovery on the ashes.
Makes you wonder how much of that generally ends up in a landfill. I bet some nonferrous ends up in the plastics; do they melt that mess down to collect the silver or whatever?
next step is removing the non ferrous, still a bit to go to complete the machine.
Yes all metals will be removed.
Plastics would likely be melted down and turned into filament/recycled plastic for use
@@southaussiegarbo2054 Good! In the USA a lot of keyboards end up in the landfill.
All you need is plastic bags or stretch rap that's polyethylene /plastic milk jugs,pop bottle's that's polypropylene. Read the next one from me it's free. I'm sharing this with all of you.
Hi Ive subscribe to you were are your videos on recycling plastic etc?
@@sharonironman4547 I don't have any video on recycling plastics for making lumber. I'm just putting it out there , IF you want to start a good business to save the earth and recycle 2 types of plastic to make plastic lumber. First off you will need a big building lot's of room .you will need a warehouse for the recycle plastic. A area for grinding up the plastic to put into( gaylords witch are 2,000 pound box's ) grinders has to be able to grind up to 1/8 inch pellet size material. The material has to be separate from each other. You will need a industrial mixer to combine the 3 material . You will need a screw press for the melting of the material, a manifold system with airlock pressure switches then you'll need your dyes or molds with individual pressure switches,your dyes will have their own cooling tanks systems, you will need a cooling system chiller to handle antifreeze. Each dye should handle 800,to 2,500 psi. (Per square inch ) your electric grid should be 3 phase and you will need a cooling system for that .the molds should be at least 13 feet long to get 12 foot boards. You will need a warehouse for storing the lumber, a area for cooling down for lumber from that day's run 8hr shifts . You will need a industrial radial arm saw to process the lumber for shipping . A bander for securing the lumber for shipping .this lumber is heavy it will last over a 100 year's will not rot and can be made in different colors . Good for decks,park benches, picnic tables, fences, steps, mailbox post. Stadium benches, designer boxes for plant's. If you want to start a great business like this ? I can give you a quote price.
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I’ve noticed that some places are discontinuing the practice of allowing people to put out hard rubbish - meaning that scrappers can’t collect recyclables and more going into landfills. I think this is a bad move. As a scrapper, how many tons of material do you think you keep out of landfills in a year?
He is lucky that he is not relying on street scrapping for the source of his e-waste. He has contracts with schools and companies that pay him to take away their old electronics.
What was it doing with the motherboards
Putting them in systematic order and automatic reparing them....
Naaah I think it cruch the boards to prepare for melting and cutting transport cost to the melting plant, and then it gets send to final stage for refining. Proberly cyanid electrolyse method on industrial scale.
You know you can EASY BUILD an elektrolyse setup yourself... a hobby scrapper can find 90% parts needed. Car battery, jumper cables, acid (from car batterys, slowly heat if needed to make it more concentrated).
Thick heat resistent glassware from girlfriend kitchen😁. Stainless steal plate, lead plate/ or copper.
The thing I cant find scrapping is the salts? "SMB" to make the gold drop outta acid solution. BUT I bet if you write the youtuber Coby'slab he will tell how you can make sodium metabisulfite "SMB".
To make the gold bullion you need aqua regina (nitric acid from car battery and normal hydrochloric acid).
You can run the electrolyse on VERY LOW volt and mili amp. I belive its 20mili amp pr cm2 anode.
So a small setup is very safe. Give up very little acid fumes and low current.
I must say the youtuber "STREETIPS" is the professional (old navy scientis type or tech guy).
"Im just a TH-cam-comment clown🤡 so DO CHECK OUT STREETIPS " for professional advice.
After 2000 all have access to the noble metals in form of WEEE. It just that DO YOU REALLY DARE TO DIP YOUR HANDS INTO "NWO's" circulare econemy and "STEEL" their gold?
In order to have a modern digital world they had to give up LOTS OF GOLD to the industry. So its just for the taking....
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Here I just toss all the plastic in the garbage bin. No market for it here at any price. I take the silver sheets out of the keyboards though.
Hi Ben if you like some more information about the processes to the recycling i can help you. Is my job I planning this plants for recycling.
hello David. I am Joe. we are process the recycling the plastic . separate wash and granlue reused again . we are looking for the factory which has plastic .could you share some imformation or we can do some business together .thank you very much . my whatsapp +905455111077
you should contact Brian @TechYesCity, he might want to buy your used xeons and other power supplies, etc!
Plastic really is the worst and hardest part of scrapping. You can get so much of it so quickly and yet the places to properly process it are nearly non existant. I know there's not much value to it but with the vast amount of it, someone needs to find a good way to process and create new product from it, as you would never be short of material.
Ben, do you pay for them to take it or you give it for free ?
they take it free.
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