17 - Project work
This week is all about finilising and making the first bioplastic clothing bags.
I made a lot of progress this week, so I'll divide this week in a few subjects.
My main focus is the Agar recipe.
Producing a lot of sheets
For this project I wanted to test a lot of recipes.In the first weeks of the project I was mainly
working with small and different plates, which resulted in having a lot of sheets in all different sizes and most of them were to small for a good bioplastic packaging clothing bag.
So I needed to step up my game and try to
produce bigger sheets. With bigger sheets I could make real packaging bags. So I tried to make my own molds with clay, but that didn’t work. It was such a shame that we couldn’t use the Makers Lab provided by our school AUAS during the Corona crisis. Because I would have made a mold with the 3D printer or the Laser cutter if we were allowed to go to school. But I had to do it with the equipment and space in my kitchen.
After a few weeks I got a tip from one of my classmates, which said that Ikea still had large glass plates available, so I ordered one myself. I ordered a NORDLI glass plate which is 120 cm by 47 cm. With this glass plate I was finally able to make bigger sheets and try to make real
bio plastic packaging clothing bags!
After this reframing moment I was able to test the best recipes on a bigger scale. When the first big sheets were ready I made my first
bioplastic clothing bag by ironing two sheets of bioplastic together. The Agar Agar recipe works great if you want to iron it together. With these steps I finally could bring my project to the next level and develop Agar Agar bio plastic packaging clothing bags.
Ironing a bioplastic bag
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