Making Floor Tiles From Plastic Waste

In this video we will weld our own mould and use the injection machine to make tiles.

Making floor tiles from plastic waste. Up until now nothing the tiles are 100 percent high density polyethylene hdpe plastic. When the plastic has melted mix in sand. 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. This is part of the wasteaid toolkit.

New eco friendly p. Our tiles remain steady despite heavy traffic and footfall. Make up around 60 of all plastic waste in the gambia. These tiles are non porous flexible and durable.

They re light but extremely dense and nearly unbreakable. Worksheet number 3 this kind of plastic is called low density polyethylene ldpe. You simply shred the plastic then mix with the sand and pour inside the extruder. Remove the mould and.

Now that you have the machine and raw materials the process of making tiles will be pretty straight forward. Lack of recycling has led to massive islands being created in the ocean made of plastic. We wash and shred the recycled plastic and put the regrinds into molds to make shapes. The extruder will do its job and you will collect a molten mixture of sand and plastic on the other end.

Transfer the mixture to an oiled mould. Melt ldpe plastic film in a barrel over a wood fire.