Making Floor Tiles From Plastic Waste

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Making floor tiles from plastic waste.

This is part of the wasteaid toolkit. When the plastic has melted mix in sand. Plastic waste is becoming a scourge of the earth. Our tiles remain steady despite heavy traffic and footfall.

We wash and shred the recycled plastic and put the regrinds into molds to make shapes. Now that you have the machine and raw materials the process of making tiles will be pretty straight forward. In this video we will weld our own mould and use the injection machine to make tiles. Transfer the mixture to an oiled mould.

New eco friendly p. Worksheet number 3 this kind of plastic is called low density polyethylene ldpe. These tiles are non porous flexible and durable. How to transform plastic waste into paving tiles 1 how to transform plastic waste into paving tiles you can convert waste plastic into useful and valuable building materials.

Up until now nothing the tiles are 100 percent high density polyethylene hdpe plastic. Make up around 60 of all plastic waste in the gambia. Make floor tiles from plastic bags and film you can recycle plastic bags into waterproof floor tiles using simple tools. The extruder will do its job and you will collect a molten mixture of sand and plastic on the other end.

Lack of recycling has led to massive islands being created in the ocean made of plastic. They re light but extremely dense and nearly unbreakable.