Perler Bead Recycling
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dritten527
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3 months, 1 week ago by dritten527
Hi. As fellow crafters, I’m curious if any of you have enjoyed making perler bead creations. Now looking through my mess of random stuff on my desk, I’m wondering how to dispose of them. To be more clear, I made and fused a few creations out of ikea pyssla beads. I’m really wanting to recycle these as I have a very environmentally friendly mindset. I’ve done a bit of research and found that these specific beads are made of Polyethylene plastic, but am not sure of the density, which is annoying for categorising. Polyethylene either fits in the category 2 or 4 plastic, and in my county only 1,2 and 5 are accepted. What would perler beads be classified as and if it is 2, would it be recycled even without the little recycling triangle sign. Note: the numbers I’m talking about are the ones typically on the bottom of plastic containers, which represent the 7 categorises of plastic Thanks |
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dritten527
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3 months, 1 week ago by dritten527
Wow sorry that’s a lot to read
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maxbraclet
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3 months, 1 week ago by maxbraclet
Yeah today is a special day for me and i look at containers when you when i recycle too it’s interesting because if it’s like a container i can reuse i won’t recycle it
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halokiwi
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3 months, 1 week ago by halokiwi
Two options to figure it out come to my mind:- message customer service and ask them - calculate the density yourself (you only need to figure out the mass and the volume) I found this kids science experiment that mentions a density of 0.90 g/cm3 for perler beads. The perler beads used in the experiment are probably not ikea pyssla beads, but I would assume that roughly the same materials are used for different perler beads. http://scifun.org/HomeExpts/bead-bottle.htm The wikipedia articles for the different kind of polyethylene mention the following densities: 917–930 kg/m3 for LDPE 930 to 970 kg/m3 for HDPE I guess knowing that is not much use. The density mentioned in the kids science experiment is probably rounded and if you tried to calculate the density yourself, you would need to measure very exact. Here is a source stating that perler beads (at least by this brand) are LDPE https://www.cc-pl.org/events/dinosaur-perler-beads#:~:text=Perler%20Beads%20are%20plastic%20fusible,plastic%20called%20low%2Ddensity%20polyethylene. Here is a reddit in which it is also stated that perler beads are LDPE https://www.reddit.com/r/beadsprites/comments/5idpo1/what_type_of_plastic_are_perler_beads_made_from/ And here is another reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/beadsprites/comments/15fjiep/are_perler_beads_recyclable/ It seems to be low density polyethylene, so you should be save to recycle, if I understood it correctly (You probably don't need my whole search process, but I'm just leaving it here to show my process a little, so maybe you are able to find the information you are looking for more easily next time) |
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dritten527
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3 months, 1 week ago by dritten527
@halokiwi Thank you so much for taking the time and effort to do this, it’s really helpful information!
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Cirivere
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3 months, 1 week ago by Cirivere
although the IKEA beads seem to be a cheaper knockoff of the regular bead brands, it seems like from information found online that the HAMA and PERLER beads are made out of low density Polyblablabla - meaning they are category 4? https://orangepengu.in/environmentI would assume the IKEA beads are similar |
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pinkwave
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1 month, 2 weeks ago by pinkwave
One way to reuse them is to add them to a string and make a pattern with them, i’ve done it and it turns out really cute!
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