Implementation of Plastic Fusing Method to Upcycle Products of Plastic Waste
- Keywords
- Plastic fusing, plastic waste, upcycle
- Abstract
Plastic waste is one of the most numerous in number, approximately 10 % of the total waste in the world. Plastic packaging, grocery bags, and home furnishings are the types that often found. There have been many efforts to reduce the amount of waste and the impact it causes, one of them is the up-cycling method. Up-cycling is the utilization method of waste products that have more value or new. By using this method, in addition to being able to reduce the plastic waste amount while creating new products with new value and functionality, namely small wallets, shopping bags, backpacks, gadgets sleeve etc. One method of upcycling plastic is plastic fusing methods that uses heat and plastic waste to create new materials with thickness and strength. The current utilization of plastic waste has been undertaken by communities to produce a product, namely craftsman group named Kunarti but less variety of processing methods, limited to knitting method only. Based on the phenomenon, this research was conducted to find out how the application of the plastic fusing method so that it can be easily done, and into alternative methods of upcycling which is can be applied by the craftsmen community in Bandung.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Terbit Pambudi AU - Yanuar Herlambang AU - Fajar Sadika PY - 2019/07 DA - 2019/07 TI - Implementation of Plastic Fusing Method to Upcycle Products of Plastic Waste BT - Proceedings of the 5th Bandung Creative Movement International Conference on Creative Industries 2018 (5th BCM 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 538 EP - 543 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/125910981 ID - Pambudi2019/07 ER -