Clean Aluminium foil, yoghurt pots, margarine tubs and food containers/trays will be among materials recycled by Stratford District Council’s recycling service from Tuesday, December 1.

Carrier bags and plastic food wrapping, such as cling film, will still cannot be recycled.

The council has achieved a record 63 per cent recycling rate, its previous figure having been 47 per cent.

It believes this service extension will help it achieve a 65 per cent rate next year and eventually 75 per cent.

Coun Simon Jackson, the council’s environment portfolio holder, said: “Extending our recycling service to include other types of plastics will help us to recycle more and reduce the amount of waste going to landfill, which is good news all round.

“Our recycling figures are really encouraging and it demonstrates that people are really taking the recycling message on board and taking positive action to help us in our continuing quest to reduce the amount of waste that goes to landfill, as well as safeguarding the environment.”

The council has agreed to buy a small number of additional bins to help larger households contain their recycling and also smaller bins that are better suited to some homes.

However, the use of plastics for such purposes requires profound knowledge of the material characteristics. For the interested, there are now seminars where participants can learn about frequently used thermoplastic materials as well as high-performance plastic materials for tribological applications, which can be injection-moulded to complex components fulfilling a wide variety of functions at a time.

In these seminars, engineers and technicians working in production, R&D and design are informed about sliding and wear tests conducted with plastic/steel and plastic/plastic material pairings, especially when running without wet lubrication, what effects special additives and reinforcement materials may have and how to optimally lubricate plastic plain bearings.

Step 1

Put the milk in a saucepan and warm the milk without boiling it.

Step 2

While the milk is simmering, add a tablespoon of vinegar. Stir with a spoon until the substance becomes rubbery.

Step 3

Create a strainer over a jar. Put the cotton cloth over the mouth of the jar and hold it in place by putting a rubber band around the jar with the cloth.

Step 4

Slowly pour the white rubbery substance you’ve created into the cloth. A white solid gel will collect on the cloth strainer while the excess liquid will collect in the jar. This white solid is called casein and it is basically milk curd.

Step 5

While the casein is still malleable, place it any mold you desire. The plastic you’ve created will dry in a few days. You can put it in a cookie cutter mold and paint it later. If you want to make a simple part for some broken machine you are trying to fix, a mold of the part can be made with hardening clay. Use the homemade plastic as material for the part.

It is said that the consurm of water and electricity of this method to wash clothes is 2% of traditional methods.

It’s Working principle shows as the picture:

1、Clothes put into machine.

2、Cartridge in back of machine adds plastic chips to wash.

3、Cup of water, which includes detergent added.

4、Water dissolves the dirt which is then absorbed by the chips.

5、At the end, a grill opens at the bottom of the drum to remove the chips.