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Plastic working 101
Rating: 4.5 out of 5(5 ratings)
15 students

Plastic working 101

Learn plastic working techniques to create images and texts with recycled plastics
Created byOlolade Olatunji
Last updated 11/2024
English

What you'll learn

  • Recycle used plastics into plastic art
  • Turn used plastics into Plain multipurpose sheets
  • Recycle single use plastics to create other longer lasting products
  • The working principles behind the methods used
  • Practical demonstrations and illustrations of each process

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Course content

2 sections • 24 lectures • 1h 45m total length

  • Samples of recycled Plastic Art1:07

    Explore samples of recycled plastic art and learn fundamental plastic working techniques in this plastic working 101 course.

  • Introduction1:16

    Turn plastic waste into valuable artworks using 100 percent recycled plastics. Craft color-rich, waterproof pieces from shopping bags and bottle caps that last hundreds to thousands of years.

  • Introduction to the course1:50

    Transform single-use plastics like bottle caps into durable products through hands-on plastic recycling, empowering consumers and crafters to reduce waste and create income.

  • Course outline2:41

    Explore plastics and recycling, from the recycling process to global challenges and stakeholders, and learn to make flat sheets and painting-type artwork from recycled plastics.

  • Plastics in everyday life4:55

    Explore how plastics—rigid polymers at room temperature and moldable above the glass transition—serve everyday needs, from cups to electronics, while considering the challenge of vast production and low recycling rates.

  • Plastic cycle2:11

    Explore the plastic cycle from producer to retailer to consumer, showing how packaging disposal ends in recycling streams, landfills, or dumps, shaping the environment.

  • Plastic types7:51

    Identify plastics by recycle numbers 1–7 and learn common types like pet, hdpe, pvc, ldpe, pp, ps; prioritize reduce, reuse, repair before recycling and avoid mixing plastics.

Requirements

  • Interest in plastic recycling and creativity

Description

This course will teach you to create art using recycled plastics. You will learn a novel technique that requires no additional colours or glues. Just 100% recycled plastics.

Learn the technique of plastic working and get introduced to creative ways to turn single use plastics into long lasting plastic art.


This course uses a combination of mainly video explanations and some animated illustrations. It includes a lot of practical demonstration of each technique introduced. You will also learn more than one approach to producing the same product giving you more options you can adapt to the tools you have available. You will be able to follow along the production process and together over the duration of the course we would have converted these used plastics into different objects and in the process learn the unique craft of 'painting' with plastics and plastic working.

The course starts off with the first part about plastics, an overview of recycling, and a review of the plastic challenge and role of consumers and producers in plastic waste management and how this can be improved.

The course then moves on to the more practical aspects of plastic working and creating artwork with plastics.

Many if not all of us make use of plastics in our everyday life and about half of the plastics we use are not used for longer than a few days, minutes, or even seconds. We tend to throw away a lot of the plastics we use, many of which are single-use plastics. Some because even when they are recyclable the facilities to recycle are inaccessible and some of the single-use plastics even when recyclable cannot be recycled on a large scale.

A lot of the plastics which get thrown away still have a lot of "life" or so to speak in them and can still be used for much longer, up to multiple years in other forms. In this course, I'll be teaching you how to convert those plastics you would normally throw away into valuable works of art and other long-lasting useful objects. Even better is the fact that we will be doing this using relatively simple tools and access equipment. So this is a project you can do using things you either already have at home or in your workshop or can easily purchase locally.

Who this course is for:

  • Crafting for business or hobby

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