In today’s world, plastics are our modern “golden touch” — like King Midas turned everything into gold, everything we create or consume seems to be wrapped, coated, or made from plastic. It brings convenience, durability, and abundance — at first. But just like Midas’s golden gift turned to a curse, our overuse of plastic has come back to haunt us: clogging oceans, the great pacific garbage patch*, poisoning ecosystems, even fishes nourishing on microplastics. What once seemed like a miracle material has become an inescapable burden. Waiving is the only solution.

* (the patch is three times the size of France or twice the size of Texas!)

Do what is possible in your situation to see plastics as the good:

- reuse plastic bags (e.g. from cereals) for (bathroom) trash bin
- drive anticipating: cars and heavy vehicles create fine dust of road-tire abrasion (avoid immense braking and accelerating) - better ride your bicycle
- start seeing the magic of plastics as an engineering material, not a throwaway item
- reduce plastic as packaging waste where possible

• wash your freezer bags
• use plastic packaging (of ice boxes or yogurt) for food as freezing boxes or takeaway for your guests
  
• take 3 philosophy: pick plastics out of environment if you see some outside. it is especially a common doing on beaches, where there are bins for fishing net pieces and whatnot else is washing up. leave the world behind a little bit better than you've found it - this can be a paradise when everybody does :)
  

You are responsible for the stuff you buy! Throwing away (for whatever reason) is no taking care of! Sell or donate the things you don't need. Always think twice and wait a day before you buy new stuff! Only buying what you really need is the motto. Tip: become lighter - reduce yourself to only what you regularly use. Part from old a luxury item when getting a new one. Horting products is not what you define (it is your ego craving), free yourself. Read in bookrecommondations

When you feel that rubber is sticky, then its chemical softeners “sweatened out”. Remove greasy stickiness with isopropyl or brake cleaner. Apply talcum if needed. As dirty quickfix carefully sprinkel with wheat flour and rub off the stickiness.

Velour paint on casings like on Sony Ericsson K800/W880 can get sticky over years. With Razor Orocchi mouse flour did not work, I had to rub it off with (isopropanol) alcohol, polished afterwards and now have a black shiny hardplastic surface - totally different feel, but not sticky anymore :)

- cotton dremel power-tool head: always use low RPM with enough polish cream. Too high RPM will create heat and MELT YOUR SURFACE with irremovable burn scars!
- polish by hand instead with rotating movements and appropriate pressure and screen polish.
- everything can be a worse polish: [Caution of microplastics!] scrubbing milk, tooth paste (varies) etc
- spray water on glas surface/screen for applying plastic screen protectors. It is possible to shift the protector around a bit, then take a credit card with a cloth and push the water out.

Plastic is a versatile and robust material. It is easily machinable and available as duraplast and thermoplast. The latter can be melted and then formed, like Plexiglas.

Plastics can drilled, cut, lathed, milled, welded, 3D-printed and much more. It is an engineering material, not a throwaway item.

Cutting can be done several ways:

• mechanically: use fine blades and if cut using power jigsaw low RPMs only (thermoplastics will meld+weld back together behind the cut)
• thermally: Thermoplasts can be well cut with hot blades or heating strings - beware burns
  

melting points

PP,PE(TG),POM etc

- Erdölkerzen
- Melting points: Bienenwachs

Glue and plastics make an awesome pair
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Zipties, laces, cable ties or whatever else you might call them: For opening cut the strap furthest away from head, reuse the (slightly shorter) tie for some other place. Take a needle and push it between latch in tie head from behind or carefully take a knife and try to push the tip below latch.

Not only police as use tie as handcuffs. There are reusable ties, also used in bondage sex practice. The ties can be reopened by pressing the latch on the head with a finger.

Glueless tape is awesome. See for “bondage tape” (no joke), it is like rubber tape which sticks like cling wrap to itself.