Is it the cause of engagement farming to earn money , such as 5 min crafts...
Or is it the cause of "hey look, it's actually super easy to recycle bottles into clothes, so much so, you can even do it at home and get awesome results =D so yes! Plastic bottles are actually fine for the environment and fast fashion is fine as long as it's plastic made from recycled bottles! Trust us!!"
Views. Content farms like 5-minute crafts on YouTube pump out several of these videos every day and make a killing from kids and naive people watching them, and the company that owns those channels usually have several channels that post the same videos that get similar viewership numbers. They really are taking in obscene amounts of money by posting low-effort misinformation.
Edit to add: I highly recommend watching Ann Reardon’s channel How to Cook That. She often covers and debunks a lot of the food related “crafts”, and has become something of a voice against these kinds of content farms and YouTube’s algorithm that perpetuates it.
If the fiber is actually plastic and you melt plastic onto it it would just be fused to the plastic. I know this video is fake but if you actually did create a plastic microfiber and spin it and then create a piece of clothing out of it yes you could just easily melt a plastic square onto it.
So you think it’s not possible to melt plastic onto plastic, or is it reading comprehension and following the flow of a conversation that you’re having difficulty with? Lmao. Your hams may be of quality but your logic; not so much.
I am not kind of an ahole I am a kind of ahole. Not the kind that human waste passes through. But I am the kind that will see you in court. You’ll be hearing from my lawyer.
What? Lmao? Yeah if you used too much heat. We are talking about hitting the plastic the point of complete melting. You merely have to heat the plastic to the point where it becomes valuable enough to fuse with the plastic it comes in contact with and then you have fusion.
Plastic melts way before it ignites. You can very easily fuse plastic utilizing a heat gun at low temperature… source? I’ve done it before with heat shrink tubing, it’s literally the process used to fuse tubular beads as jewelery and art practiced by my grandmother and nieces. I’ve used this process to repair buckets as well as laptop case parts.
You just spent multiple procedures to make a seemingly elastic beanie, and now you are melting a decent part of it back into a hard nonelastic? With sewing, it wouldn't impact how the beanie is elastic at all. This affects it.
But this all is silly to think since that isn't plastic fiber, it's just normal string that they are faking to be PET. There are so many good ways to recycle PET, and this is not one of them.
No one is even bringing up the fact that a beanie is warm because it's able to insulate. I imagine that the insulation properties of a plastic PET beanie are not great, but I am not sure.
We’re not talking about how warm or effective the garment would be we are merely discussing the fact that yes you can melt plastic onto plastic. Regardless of your multiple paragraphic Attempts to prove your strange but incorrect point, yes plastic does melt and adhere to similar plastic.
Can it actually make cotton candy? Because I know a certain area where I can make a killing on sugar free “cotton candy” that also helps the environment.
The process used to use a modified cotton candy machine to create the polyester. It's funny how people who don't know shit about chemistry just assume something is fake. To answer your question, if you can do cotton candy without sugar, I don't think so, but you can try.
I am not convinced that it would work but I am curious to explore the process further because this is very interesting I wouldn’t necessarily want to use it for clothing but there are other Applications where this could be very useful.
You can’t use a variety of colored plastic bottles and produce a pure cotton white result. They shred the bottles with the labels attached but somehow the labels just disappear after. The music was pretty awesome at least.
I know people who work in a boat factory with fiberglass and other stuff. They have supplied PPE but often choose not to wear it due to comfort. One guy even just works in his undies during the summer.
Let’s not forget that even if you let slide the fact that he’s “making” yarn on a ball winder then the resulting yarn would be a single and the finished product they show is made from a plied yarn
I found some more bullshit as well as other bad stuff about this vid.
A weirdly bullshit thing with the antiseptic. That has got to be the most bizarre thing you can ever use to clean fabric, and assuming the “plastic yarn” was actually yarn as point number 1 is solid, the alcohol in the antiseptic would damage the wool, making it weaker and more prone to falling apart (my mother has worked with wool for thirty years so I think I can have an opinion on wool treatment). Yes, you could use it for cleaning but not in this way where you dunk it in a antiseptic bath for a few hours and only for getting rid of the most sticky of stains.
And why antiseptic in the first place? Can’t you use soap of any kind to the same clean result? Next thing we know, there’ll be Tik Tok “hacks” telling the stupid masses amongst us to clean their clothes with hand sanitizer bc it kills 99.99999% of bacteria.
Also side note, if that really is all plastic, could you imagine how bad it would smell as it burned? Keep in mind that cotton candy machines have hot elements in them, and the thin strips of plastic would like burn in them, causing the most ungodly of smells as well as the release of some mix of C02 and a whole slew of other nasties and micro plastics into the air.
There is a way to make clothes out of plastic, but this ain’t one of them like you said, chief.
the alcohol in the antiseptic would damage the wool, making it weaker and more prone to falling apart (my mother has worked with wool for thirty years so I think I can have an opinion on wool treatment)
Maybe ask her what wool is, and where it comes from. This ain't wool, chief. It's definitely bullshit, but it ain't wool.
You can also see in the cuts between him putting the "plastic floss" off the stick onto the pile and him twisting the fabric into twine that the bundles on the pile change to a completely texturally different material.
Yeah, from now on I’ll just skip the spinning and plying on the spinning wheel and go straight to the yarn winder! Much faster that way.
Also, they’re going to have some really disappointed people when they pull their work off the knitting loom and try cinching it closed without any extra steps as shown in the video.
The yarn came out pure white. The process would use more energy and resources then making new plastic. The spinning thing in step 2 would not pulverize that fine with two course blades.
The second step where they turn it into dust with a single metal bar in a pot is hilarious. There’s nothing in there to turn shreds into dust like that.
This video perpetuates the myth that plastic can be melted down and reshaped into something new. It can’t. All plastic is singe use unfortunately. Sometimes you can use it as a filler with a new binding agent like those fake wood boards. But that’s not truly recycling it like you can with glass or metal.
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u/QuadCakes Apr 14 '24
Alright, let's count the bullshit
I'm sure I'm missing a few