Does Journey to Forever have any tips on recycling plastic and
metal? The only reference I found on Journey to Forever was that
Mike Pelly using salvage scrap metal for his equipment.
You sure didn't look very hard.
http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_processor7.html
Test-batch mini-processor: Journey to Forever
"Cost -- in our case, zero: this was all discarded junk, including
the drill, and all in perfect working order."
http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_processor5.html
Simple 5-gallon processor: Journey to Forever
"Like our test-batch processor, it's easy to make from not very much,
mostly scrap and junk... The only thing we bought was the immersion
heater, which we already had."
http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_processor10.html
Journey to Forever 90-litre processor
"The main expense with this processor set-up was the pump (US$35).
Most other parts were salvaged from junkyards and so on, including
all the valves -- 12 of them altogether, which would have cost about
US$100 if bought new. The temperature gauge was also salvaged from a
dump, found lying face-down in the mud, but it works and it's
accurate."
This stove is made of tin cans:
http://journeytoforever.org/teststove.html
Cookstove for schools: Journey to Forever
And so on. We use junk for just about everything, in all our biofuels
work and all our farm work too.
Solar box cookers are made of cardboard boxes. Our incubator is made
from cardboard boxes, a junked heating element, junked plate glass,
junked thermometer. There's a whole section in the Education section
on what to do with "waste" cardboard boxes. There are more stoves
there too, made from tin cans and Coke cans. Our previous garden pond
was an old bathtub.
Reduce-reuse-recycle is basic, it's instinctive with us, it's in
everything we do.
I know plastic is not compostable, obviously it needs some
pre-treatment before even attempting to bring plastic back into
nature. Maybe use ultraviolet rays to degrade plastic? How about
metal cans, can the natural decay of metal be accelerated? What are
consumer-grade metal cans made of?
Plastic and metal should be recycled, not degraded and decayed.
Best
Keith Addison
Journey to Forever
KYOTO Pref., Japan
http://journeytoforever.org/
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