How We Made 64,000 Beads From Beach Waste

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This is brilliant! My youngest who has cancer gets beads of courage from a charity that makes beads for children with cancer for all the different procedures they have to endure. Theirs are glass, but recycled plastic beads could be put to all sorts of uses like that, including charity beads ❤

I would genuinely purchase these just as a bracelet lover. I love kandi and rave style beaded bracelets, but it’s a real shame there isn’t a more environmentally friendly option. I would use these for all kinds of creations!!

A great idea for sure, maybe make a cutter that will cut off all the beads at the same time. Then put the beads into a rock tumbler to remove the excess plastic nubs. That may work. Great content as usual.

I wonder if you could make a mold that is a comb with the bead at the end of each prong? Probably not as efficient, but it'd be cool to be able to do both!

AMAZING!! I live in Florida surrounded by lakes and oceans 🌊 and I frequently think about the waste cluttering all of them😢 I truly appreciate your work/video, it makes me feel better!!

Wait on a second. I don't know if how you have the bolts on open edges of your molds is a standard practice in the industry but the botany world needs to know about this because it would save so much time if plant presses used this design instead!! Only just found your channel but I am already thoroughly in love with it! Thank you for doing what you do!

You should be very proud of yourself. You're brilliant. I thank you, my grandkids grandkids thank you and the planet thanks you!

Great that you are cleaning up the plastic. I might suggest a mod to the molds where you use a metal T shaped wingnut fastener to hold the halves together. That would save massive time. Also think about being to use a paper cutter to shear the beads from the sprew. I used the T shaped wingnut fasteners on my lead molds with good success. I got that idea from US military surplus electronic equipment. I suspect that Dzus fasteners would work quite well also to hold the mold halves together.

i love everything you do guys, i hope someday i can work with recycled materials too

I used to live in Bournemouth and the rubbish left behind after a sunny weekend infuriated me so much. Thanks so much for your hard work in not only cleaning it up, but giving it a second life!

If you made them into round beads you could turn them into 3D beaded animals! I make little turtles with my round beads, and I think that would be perfect to do with these kinds of recyled beads

hi guys regards from Costa Rica, saving money for a project like you have here in Costa Rica, I am doing by hand surfboards keyholders and Pads for computer too, you are a truly inspiration for me, thanks

This is the first video I've seen of yours, and I'm so glad I did! I am looking forward to these smaller beads being available on your shop (I see from other comments that they're coming soon), as I'll definitely be picking up a few other things once they're available as well. I'd also like to gently suggest that you add the approximate size of the HOLES of the beads to the item descriptions on your site. Didn't see that on the bigger beads, and it's hard to get a sense of scale from the pictures alone. This is useful information for crafters like me, so that I know what size elastic/wire/yarn will fit, as well as the size of needles I can use to thread them on. Thanks, and looking forward to seeing more, now that I've subscribed!

Why not make a shape press to push out and cut the beads (since you milled a shape). In fact, just order something like a die cut every time you make a mould. Also, look at bead spinners, if you haven't. Could make for quick making... or at least less time. Keep up the fun videos!

It'd be interesting if you could make Raspberry Pi cases or other types of cases and enclosures with the leftover plastic bits.

WOW!!!! Amazing work!!!! See you in the next video.😃👍

first video of yours i've seen and wow you've got an amazing process going! Making me think how I'd love these colors made into beautiful items for creating craft tools such as knitting and crochet things 😊 keep doing what you're doing!

A couple of thoughts that washed through my head while watching this.. For small parts like beads or any other injection mold. 1. Build a vise to put the mold in instead of having to screw/unscrew the nuts and bolts to hold it together. The vise will make it quick release. 2. A guillotine to cut the beads off in one go instead of one by one. 3. This may work... Just tumble the beads as they are which should knock off or smooth out the threads/squeeze out from the edges of the beads or pop some polishing stones in which are mildly abrasive to achieve the same effect but quicker. Hope that helps 🤘

i LOVE this video! i am very very excited about fashion and clothes-making, as well as crafting accessories- but the materials for that are not exactly sustainable. i've been wondering if there could be plastic elements made from recycled plastic but i've never ended up finding much. i'm very happy to be proven wrong! /i hope these beads will be up for sale. i'd love to buy some!/