Recycling Milk Jugs into Fencing
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- www.closetheloop.com The process to recycle milk jugs & other plastics into a durable plastic wood fencing product. Video courtesy of WNEP's Home & Backyard Show.
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This video is amazing! I wanted to make myself a cutting board for my kitchen, so I flattened 7 Milk jugs. Put them on a sheet pan. Placed the sheet pan in the oven @ 300 degrees. 20 minutes later a flat clear plastic. When cooled, I had a white cutting board. Thanks to this video!
YAY!!!! This is what every town, city and village needs!!!!! THANKS FOR BEING INTELLIGENT :)
This great! We need to find more ways to keep recyclable materials out of landfills and repurposed into useful materials like this, that'll last for ages.
I totally agree with you 100% I hope that more more people will open their eyes to just trying to save the Earth.
Fantastic idea and great that somebody took the concept and actually did it. So many of us WANT to do something good for the environment its just great to see someone say "lets stop talking about it and just do it !!!"
I'm working on ways of making the global village construction set mostly 3D printable.
Great idea. Wish them the best. thanks for the video.
How Fantastic, what a great thing you are doing, Thankyou so much. looks So real like a wooden fence.
They make 4×8 sheet out of jugs too , very durable stuff , quite easy to work with too.
I'm impressed!!! Looks good!!!
There is life after plastic....wish more companies were like this one
Bravo! I hope the economics support making molds for other products too. (planters, lawn edging, coolers, buckets etc.)
It's cheaper to just throw it away. That may seem sarcastic, but it's the truth.
thx for the uploads,, I'm studying product design rignt now and I'm going to use this information on my task that the teacher gave me about a sustainable design
Hi ! Yes, I'm a professional Product Designer in Houston, Tx., a town known world-wide for industrial innovation for the oilfield - land AND Offshore, and I can tell you that this is an absolutely worthwhile project ! They did ptetty well with their implementation, and even have a down-stream market they're SUCCESSFULLY supplying . I BET if you look closely, YOU can find a NUMBER of ways you could innovate on the design AND improvements, as well as other products you could produce COMMERCIALLY as a result ! Isn't FREEDOM and Capitalism GREAT?! Good LUCK and ALL the VERY BEST to you and yours, from Texas - C.
Awesome stuff.
Somebody not only figured out a way to get the materiel to make their product with for free, they have people bring it to them. Pretty slick.
inspirational.... Thank-you for putting it here
great Recycling business keep up the great work
That is great a idea for milk jugs make them in to fencing we need more places like that
Great use of recycled plastic!
Fantastic job thanks
Thanks for posting this video.
I am now a "Post Graduate".
Such a great,great idea.
Fantastic. The earth thanks you and I thank you!!
True .......... it is giving another life
This is such a great idea I can't wait to see what else people come up with for using waste.
Great product
Great job. Congratulation.
Wonderful! Thank You!
Congratulations fantastic brilliant idea, you've got my full endorsement '
English Mik
Depends on which side of the fence you are.
Putting used plastics back to good use. Cool.
I like the way you kept the start up cost down. I'm a huge fan of recycling, way to much end up in landfills that does not need to be there.
Wow...That’s AmaZing!
Great Video, Thank you for sharing
Great idea!
Nice to see someing recycleing better than landfill and its long term recycleing to
Very impressive!
they look old and real....beutiful.....if they were new looking.they would be hated.....good job.....very good job.
Wow! Great! 😃😀 good idea 👍💯😊🤗
That is what environmentalism should be, using innovation to create products and convert what would be wasted into what is useful.
Very cool indeed!
well done sensible idea
Amazing 🙌.
thus is great! sharing. 😊
Great idea, works well for farmers or property owners. could even work well for urban houses too as planks.
That is a nice way to recycle that plastic and help keep some of it out of the oceans and landfills. I am not one of those annoying tree huggers but I do like to see things like this happen. Honestly when I started watching this video I was expecting to see the white square fence posts but these are nicer because they are different.
Fantastic idea!! Made in America too!
I didn't bother watching the whole video. I was so inspired by the title, that I went out and glued a bunch of milk jugs together to make posts. My new fence row seems a bit wobbly, but I'll get back to you guys with further updates later on.
Gewgulkan Suhckitt Post pictures! lol!
+Gewgulkan Suhckitt
Talk about *_milking_* a joke!!
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Gewgulkan, use super glue next time. Duh.
🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭 Not too late to follow what's in the video.
👍 well done great idea
Pretty damn cool!
I Like this Idea!!!!
Really amazing :)
Recycling trash into a useful product, good deal! In addition virtually all of their equipment is recycled, saving it from going to waste. I only have one question, who are the 33 people who gave this video a thumbs down? I can't even imagine.
I would love to do that in Arizona!!
terrific process, used machinery and all.
nice end product.
i wonder if they have different styles of fencing in the future?
COOL IDEA
This is spectacularly A W E S O M E
The other process that the plastic was put through that the tour guide skipped over was likely the adding of 5% shredded paper confetti which the end product is plastic wood, sold at hardware stores to make outdoor decks.
Patty Baker is the paper added so that it will eventually fall apart? the plastic would be more stable if it didn't have the paper added but then you might have a 100 year fence
+Justin Kasey
The paper is not added - it never got separated out after shredding the containers with labels glued to them.
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Wasnt it a fellow in scotland who pioneered this plastic extrusion tech.
Pretty neat.
To all the nay sayers on here...it sure beats filling our landfills with it. I'm sure they have thought of the heat theory already and compensated for that. Yes, of course natural is better, but isn't it nice to see something that would otherwise be garbage being put to good use? Some farmers, etc. may not be able to afford rock/wood fencing and this is a great alternative. Besides being eco friendly, it also creates jobs and in this economy, isn't that a good thing?! Kudos to the inventor!
You should add sand and mold them into roofing tiles.. very cool stuff.
Def seems worth doing. Could use the materials to make many other things as well.
Wow !
Amazing idea, where can I know more about it, is this the only plant?
this is cool i like this
we use to have a plant that could melt down the plastic till they had a fire they were that was about 20 yrs ago since it happend and during that time recycle was not a hot topic as it is today they made sheets of plastic size of plywood but solid plastic it was great product I used in on a basement floor made the floor much warmer and he water doesn't afffect it was easy to work and I glued it to the cement floor using no more nails. still there till this day.I am sure they could make some nice snap togeter floating floor tiles from this product and the different colors of platic they could make it look like marble.
.. I stamp out plastic panels from 0.090 black HDPE sheet , grid and recycle all the scrap back to the sheet maker
.. I use a Temtek grinder .. in the same sort of big box shown in this video .. I get about 1500lbs of ground plastic
We need to use this process to make 2x4's for construction !
The last I heard, used motor oil bottles weren't recycled around here. Too bad nobody collects them to send to someone who does either. I'm glad that at least SOME of them are being recycled. I hope a company like that comes around here before we all get buried in waste plastic.
I'd be interested in applying for job opportunities at a plant like this one.
Great creation, what do you recycle to turn the fence brown?
Wish I could go learn and work with them.
same
U can build building out of that materials, homes high rises ,roads u name it
Is the only type of fence post and rail or do you produce any farm fence?
Have you heard of the guy in Kentucky making one piece roof out of plastic.... I always felt strange about hammering nails thu my shingles to make the roof waterproof. Then you move from decoration to habitat.... Bravo
Dec. 4, 2018---Thanks for the video....good usage of what would other wise be land fill somewhere. Wonder if the company could make a square 4"x4"x8' fence post, along with 2x4's and fence boards using screws to hold everything together? Never have to paint it and of course, it won't rot with the posts in the ground w/cement holding them.
Wonderful were is this available I would love this it looks like it will last longer than wood. Price ?
Ok what do I need for equipment and where do I purchase the equipment and approximate cost
What is the strength of theses products? Are they as strong as wood or stronger?
I want to do this in NZ
Somehow, I wondered, are there any of the recycling plants like this one in my area?
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This is good need to start something like this in kenya can you help
Recycling Milk Jugs---- It is nice to see that PART of PLAYBOY PLAYMATES will have a SECOND LIFE :O) ..
That's how business start. They start small and if the products sells they grow.
Brilliant idea awesome. I really like to start this in my country. So many plastics in my country. But I don't know how to start. I don't know if one can start small. Because I can't afford all this machines yet
That is great idea we need to do that here in the United states for fencing
this is being made in USA - Pennsylvania
Is that the only kind of fence post the make?
realy interesting
I live in the Poconos!!!! Hahah
My milk jug keeps all the bulls in the yard.
ROTFLMAO! MILK JUGS!
Damn right it's better than yours.
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... and they're like "It's better than yours"
excellent WOW
my kind of innovation
How can I get that machine
Nobody ever mentions the amount of energy to create this product.
jpalm32 As long as it is powered by clean energy, we have a concept
plastic is either recycled or BURNED. burning is a better alternative you don't need to sort but the problem is bitches like to moan.
@@michael-dm2bv burning plastic pollutes the air. This pollutes the ground. Plastic breaks down from the UV rays from the sun and leaches into the environment.
@@excitedbox5705 - if you watch large scale plastic recycling enterprises they are constantly manipulating the plastic using huge loaders, machines using electricity to shred the plastic and to remove the labels and to pack and shipthe cleaned plastic. thats air pollution too. why is it any different. a properly designed incinerator burns plastic as cleanly as an oil fired power plant burns oil. its going to pollute in some manner but thats the price you pay to simplify the recycling process. collect plastic, clean, dirty, with and without labels. pack it into a trailer with a walking floor. drive to incinerator. unload. burn. make energy. u avoid the pollution caused by excessive handling of the product and you make the same pollution when you burn it, so the pollution caused by either method cancels out. have you ever seen the beaches in india covered in plastic? they make it out to be such a big deal. its not. build a clean burning incinerator, pay those shoeless indians by the pound to collect plastic, and burn it and make energy so they can put a light bulb in their hut and the plastic collection puts a few dollars in their pocket while helping to clean the plastic thats EVERYWHERE. problem solved. air pollution? oh well! we only have forty miles of our first two layers of the atmosphere above our heads. do you really think a few dozen clean burning plastic incinerators can saturate that much air?
@@michael-dm2bv you save a massive amount of energy recycling. When you recycle glass by melting it down you save close to 90% over starting from silica sand. It is similar with plastic.
Be interesting to see that plastic rail fence after a spell of hot southwest summer heat, be melted and drooping.
Where do I get the fence material?
I would like to try this on a much smaller scale. I want to make my own building materials out of plastic and to use those items to build a deck.
So the labels on the jugs doesn't need to be removed?
Need more fence posts to keep the long rails from sagging. That, or a fiberglass strip embedded in the top side of the rail >> More expensive
This is incredible! I also recycle plastic bottles but i need to source a shredding machine like the one u have,how can do that.I live in Jamaica
Can you get a hold of a tree branch mulcher? Clean it out RRALLY WELL and you'll find it makes great medium-sized flakes. Get another one just like it, have someone cut you a set of finer grinding wheels and you're good to go !
I would like to create a company doing the exact same thing in my area. How do I start??
Looked up the product on the internet and this manufacturer could not be found......suggestions?
Inreresting.
Does anyone know how the company cleaned the milk jugs and oil jugs before they enter the shredder?
like to see housing material used it if plastics
"Housing material" as you call it, is made from recycled plastics.
Google something like "plastic recycled lumber". "Housing material" is generally called lumber or an item called "dry wall".