Do Not Waste Your Waste
There’s a famous saying that goes like ” Waste is waste only when it is wasted “.
Plastics-Crude oil from Plastic
The most common of the non biodegradable item that has been a controversy for a few couple of years on how we could reduce and limit their use but having so many advantages plastic has taken a valuable position today’s world and so the new concept was to somehow reuse them and a wonderful idea was to convert plastic into crude oil. Basically returning plastic back to where it came from was really an awesome idea .Accordingly it was found by the Evion systems that they could produce a barrel of crude oil for 10 dollars compared to a barrel of synthetic oil costing about 70 dollars. A single ton of plastic waste could produce a liter of crude oil and this oil after refining could be fed as fuels to vehicles. Recently in Bangalore (india) a Chennai based private company named M K Aromatics have taken up a project to convert the plastics there to crude oil. The basic technology behind this is thermal polymerization which break down long chain polymers. They also have the advantage of not producing any waste materials through this process and anything ranging from potato chips covers to bottles could be just fed into this machine without having to clean or process anything.
Plastic Bottle Walls
Bottles filled with mud is just as strong and even better than those typical brittle bricks. When plastic bottles are filled with mud and cemented together they also have an aesthetic look. The advantages of using plastic bottles are many including ease of availability, cost efficient, eco friendly, good shock absorber as they are more flexible and less brittle than bricks and ease of build.
Plastic Bottle Mosquito Traps
This has found to be very useful the method simply requires cutting out the bottle top and filling the lower bottom with brown sugar heated in water and cooled to 70 degree F mixed with yeast. Now cover the bottle with the top cut out of the bottle by placing it in an inverted funnel into the lower half. A large number of mosquitoes will fall into the trap by placing it in corner of your room.
Plastics can also be used as holders and bag sealers that are useful to us instead of buying readymade ones from the market.
Metal Cans
These make beautiful garden lamp . Cover a metal can with designed paper and fill it with water freeze the can and punch holes all around the outline of the design and let the ice melt and water flow out .Now fill the can with mud and insert a candle and you can light it at night in your garden.
You can also use these cans to decorate birthday parties and other occasion by simply giving them colorful painted covers.
Also these can be saved up to use as school or college project materials.
Biodegradable Wastes
Egg Shells
Egg shells can be made into beautiful crafts. They are used by artists in mosaic patterns also you can simply paint eggs and decorate for Easter. Egg shells also have other uses as fertilizers, non toxic pest control for your garden, eco friendly household abrasive and also as medicine for minor skin irritation. Also eggshells have also been found to be a potential for hydrogen fuel.
There are many more useful things you can get from waste and remember one man’s waste is another mans wealth. With little effort thinking and a willingness to change the way we behave we could save the world and dream of a better tomorrow.
Useful amazon products
1). A book on Feedstock recycling and pyrolysis of waste plastics.
2) Beaded egg shell treasures by mildred robinson.
