MIZAN TEPI UNIVERSITY

College of Engineering and Technology

Department of Mechanical Engineering

DESIGN AND MODIFICATION OF WASTE PLASTIC BOTTLE STRIP

MAKING MACHINE

May, 2014
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MAKING MACHINE

A proposal Submitted to The Department of Mechanical Engineering

College of Engineering and Technology
A proposal Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the
Award of the Degree of Bachelor of Science in Manufacturing, Industrial,
Automotive Engineering
Program: B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering
DESIGN AND MODIFICATION OF WASTE PLASTIC BOTTLE STRIP
MAKING MACHINE

Student names Id/No

1. Birie Setie …………………….ETRl0245/10
2. Yibelu Atnafe ………………...ETR/1029/10
3. Yebeltal Ferede ……………….ETR/1018/10
4. Yalew Honelet …………….....ETR/1006/10

Advisor names
Mr. Tamiru Hailemariam
Dr. anbumani

Mizan-Tepi University

MAY 2014 E.C

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This paper contains the design and modification of waste plastic bottle strip machine. In this
proposal, we introduce the concept of waste plastic bottle strip machine which is vital for the
transfer of technology as a whole for the safety of comfort and use. It would help to Convert
the plastic bottle into plastic strips and their by help in waste management. This project is like
the plastic Bottle crushing machine, where we convert a plastic container into plastic strips.
The strips are cut with the help of Blade and winded further with the help of motors. It can
generate various sizes of strips of the multiple sizes of bottles. Since reverse engineering
allows the use of simple and local material it will enable us to reuse the waste plastic bottle
cutting machine simply. It would also help in reducing the volume of waste generated and will
thus help in effective waste management. In this work, waste plastic bottles are cut into strips,
winding into a rope using a motor machine which consists of a cutting unit, temporary plastic
strip storage unit. The thesis will discuss all design analysis, part and assembly drawing, and
the safe operation of the machine. We will use SOLID WORK and AUTO CAD. In this
project, a 24 kg processing strip making machine for waste plastics was designed and
modified. The drive mechanism for the machine combined the shaft and gear drives to avoid
the deficiency associated with the common single shaft.
Keywords: SOLID WORK and AUTO CAD, strip machine, waste Plastic bottle.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
First of all, we would like to give great praise and very thankful to our God who helped us to
complete this final proposal effectively and moreover on time. We are grateful thanks and we
would like our Adviser Mr. Tamiru Hailemaram and who had helped us a lot with his
knowledge. Finally we would like to thank you our friends to give the information in work of
proposal..

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Contents
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY...................................................................................................iii
ACKNOWLEDGMENT.......................................................................................................iv
LIST OF FIGURE.................................................................................................................vi
LIST OF TABLE..................................................................................................................vii
AKRONYMS.......................................................................................................................vii
CHAPTER ONE.........................................................................................................................1
1. INTRODUCTION..................................................................................................................1
1.1 Background.......................................................................................................................1
1.2 problem Statement............................................................................................................1
1.3 Objective...........................................................................................................................2
1.3.1 General object............................................................................................................2
1.3.2 Specific objective.......................................................................................................2
1.4 Scope of the project..........................................................................................................2
1.5 Significance of project......................................................................................................2
CHAPTER TWO........................................................................................................................3
2. LITERATURE REVIEW.......................................................................................................3
2.1 History of plastic bottle.....................................................................................................3
2.2 Plastic bottle recycling technology..................................................................................4
2.3 GAPS OF the previous thesis work..................................................................................5
CHAPTER THREE....................................................................................................................6
3. Methodology...........................................................................................................................6
3.1 Study and working principle.............................................................................................6
3.2 Mechanism of waste plastic bottle strip making machine................................................6
3.3 design methodology..........................................................................................................6
3.4 Expected outcome of our project......................................................................................8
CHAPTER FOUR.......................................................................................................................9
4. BUDGET................................................................................................................................9
CHAPTER FIVE......................................................................................................................10
5. WORK PLAN.......................................................................................................................10
REFERENCE............................................................................................................................12

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LIST OF FIGURE
Figure2. 1 waste plastic bottle....................................................................................................3
Figure2. 2 Plastic Strip Making Machine...................................................................................4
Figure2. 3PET String cutter........................................................................................................5
Figure2. 4 Basket from woven plastic strips...............................................................................5

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LIST OF TABLE
Table 1 budget.............................................................................................................................9
Table 2 work plan.....................................................................................................................10
Table 3 work plan in chart........................................................................................................10

AKRONYMS
PET …………………………………………… polyethylene terephthalate
BDP…………………………………………...biodegradable plastics

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CHAPTER ONE

1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND
Plastic is a polymeric material that can be easily shaped or molded. It is derived from the
polymers present in the natural materials like plants, minerals, oil, coal and natural gas.
Polymers are a large group of monomers linked together by a chemical process called
Polymerization. But the contamination of the polymerized product (Plastic) in lands and water
bodies cause serious impact on environment. Reduce, reuse and recycle is some of the most
important actions currently taken to reduce these impacts and represents one of the most
dynamic areas in the plastics industry today [1].
THE Present Paper Describe the Research and Analysis of cutting machine for the reusing
plastic strip. In the plastic industry was making the plastic strip for packing material and box
strapping. This project is focused on the principles of reuse of waste plastic bottles by
converting them to ropes. A possible reuse of PET water bottles is the transformation into
strips. The Strip thus obtained helps to solve domestic problems, replacing prime materials for
use as wires, Strings or chords, or industrial problems such as straps for packaging. The strip
is useful for manual work usually carried out with threads and may be applied to processes for
making baskets, mats and knitting with needles or weaving with a loom [2].
This type of plastic strip is made by using hot air gun but if there is any impurity in the plastic
material then the plastic strip making process is cut-off and there is some misuse of the plastic
material as strip. For reusing of the wastage plastic strip commonly the softening cycle is
utilized. But it is economical and more time-consuming process. The effort of the machine is
to make strips of plastic bottles of the plastic from waste of plastic material in short span of
time with less cost. We chose to make this machine since plastic is not a climate free material
and it is squandered all that anyone could need. So, with the assist it with canning limited up
to certain and explicit cut-off. Along these lines this undertaking will end up being a valuable
resource from various perspectives [4].
1.2 PROBLEM STATEMENT
The problem that initiates us to design waste plastic bottle strip making machine is that there is no
developed machine to strip plastic bottle. Plastic is severe pollutant to environment so we must
recycle it. The excessive garbage waste of plastic is the major problem of our country and
plastic bottle is one of them. The available machine used to recycle this waste plastic bottle is
very costly. So many plastic bottles are shed in our environment. In that cause there is
problem like environmental pollution, Cancers and other. In Ethiopia most plastic bottles are
not recycled. This may not be as helpful but it is still important to try to help. Due to this
problem we can help by recycling the bottles after use. These products can generate income to
improve the lives of people living in poverty. By making baskets and sell ropes for industry

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directly. In addition to this in improving this design we can decrease the amount of plastic
trash accumulation by repurposing it to create desirable goods.
1.3 OBJECTIVE
1.3.1 General object
The main objective of the proposal is to design and modification of waste plastic bottle strip
making machine which converts waste plastic bottle in to ropes by strip cutting machine.
1.3.2 Specific objective
The specific objective includes to

 To modify the waste plastic bottle strip making machine.

 To understand the working mechanism of the machine
 To analysis assembly of waste plastic bottle strip making machine
 To Design each component of waste plastic bottle strip making machine.
 To Assemble waste plastic bottle strip making machine
Generally the specific objective of this project is needed to do, to achieve the overall
objective.
1.4 SCOPE OF THE PROJECT
This project will conduct to design and modification of waste plastic bottle strip making
machine with eight cutters in the same time. The project scopes are to perform the design and
analysis including the drawing.
1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF PROJECT
This project applicable in different areas which are includes in industries, household and other
organizations. This machine is commonly used in a large number of industries to reuse the
waste plastic bottles by converted to ropes. The main significance of this project is
 To minimizes waste plastic bottle pollution.
 To solve the problem of environmental pollution.
 To improves or producing ropes.
 To making baskets for packaging the industrial product
 To modify the manual machine work to motorized machine.
 To reduce the cost of the machine and make it accessible everywhere.

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CHAPTER TWO

2. LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 HISTORY OF PLASTIC BOTTLE
Now a day the plastic is one of the most used materials in world wide. There are advantages
and disadvantages of plastic, but the disadvantages are more than advantages. The most
serious disadvantages of plastic are, it takes too many years to decompose more than 400
years and this is too much. So there is need of recycle the plastic to reuse. Then we are going
to design this machine for strip the waste plastic bottle, with the help of blades. We are
making this project model for recycling of plastic wastage in domestic area, industries etc.
This machine is used for strip and winding plastic bottle in small pieces to make waste
management easier [3]
Since plastic is considered as environmentally hazardous material, various programs aimed at
educating the community on the impact of plastics pollution and consumption has been
continuously conducted. Furthermore, the relationship between culture and community
behavior regarding single-use plastic bottle consumption is important to be investigated for
mitigating plastics pollution. [4]

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Figure2. 1 waste plastic bottle

2.2 PLASTIC BOTTLE RECYCLING TECHNOLOGY

In many countries of the world, channels of collection and recycling of these bottles have
been set up. For example, Valorplast in France organizes the collection and recycling of these
bottles, which are given a second life as pillows, duvets, cushions, pens. Unfortunately many
of them, especially in our countries that do not have collection and recycling channels are still
in circulation and pile up in open dumps. Because of this problem many plastic bottles are
rejected or not reuse. To solve this problem we design the waste plastic bottle strip making
machine [2].
Miguel Friedenbach, Buenos Aires (AR) May 13, 2004,“tool for cutting used containers of
recyclable plastic material into ribbons.” He developed a tool for cutting PET bottles like
ribbons. The tool includes a tool head having an opening, a cutting blade housed inside the
opening and a slot open above and extending perpendicular to the plane of the blade,
downwards through the tool head a short distance past the blade. The blade has a sharp edge
across the slot. The slot receives the edge of the bottle Obtained by cutting off the bottle
bottom or the funnel and spout thereof. The edge is inserted in the slot and the bottle turned so
that the blade cuts through the bottle following a spiral path and producing a ribbon of PET
material at an outlet side of the slot. The limitation of this machine was worked in manually
or use human force and more time consume as well as it cannot produce much ribbons. So we
improved the machine by using an electric motor to produce more and reduce manpower [9].

Figure2. 2 Plastic Strip cutting Machine

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Matatas(2015) "PET String cutter (string from plastic bottles)". It consists of a cutting blade
secured in place by two stacks of washers around a threaded rod held in place by a wing nut.
A Bottle of various sized is pre-cut and placed between the two threaded rods, which support
its weight. Once In place proceed is pulled out as string, turning the bottle so that the blade
continuously cuts through the bottle. Strings of varying width can be made by adjusting the
height of the blade from the wood platform. These machines also work in manually and not
produce more. Because this machine is mane-made (manpower), it takes many hours to
process some plastic bottles. So one way we can solve this problem is by using an electric
motor to make the machine produce more and reduce manpower and it helps to save time
[10].

Figure2. 3PET String cutter

Figure2. 4 Basket from woven plastic strips

2.3 GAPS OF THE PREVIOUS WORK

The previous machine was powered by manpower and strip only up to five kilograms per
hour. This machine is time consuming and tedious or bored. Due to this problem we design
the waste plastic bottle strip making machine which use electric motor to strip 30 kg plastic

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bottle per hour. We have increase the number of cutter on the machine so that it can strip up
to 8 pieces of plastic bottle at a time and wrap it around the wheel itself.
Eventually, our project focused on increasing number of cutter and we motorized the cutter
machine over the utilization of reused plastic bottle and we accept that some of moderately
reasonable materials required structure. The new modification of plastic bottle strip making
machine is resolved to utilize plastic waste and keep trying different things with business
items produced using PET Plastic strips.
CHAPTER THREE

3. Methodology
3.1 STUDY AND WORKING PRINCIPLE
The process to convert plastic bottles into strip is basically divided into two parts. These are
Bottle base cutter and Bottle strip making machine.
a) Bottle base cutter: Firstly the bottle of any suitable size is put inside the cutter from the
extreme end and clamp is provided for proper fixing of the bottle which is closed after bottle -
enter. The cutter is fixed according to the size of bottle and later bottle is rotated and in single
rotation base is remove from the body.
b) Bottle strip making machine: The cutter bottle is put inside the vertical rod and deadweight
is applied on the bottle for proper fixing and downward movement. Cutter blade is provided at
the bottom of the rod for strip cutting in horizontal direction. Blade is making 5-degree angle
with bottle to cut strips easily. The cutter strips are then goes into the pressure roller after
heated by hot air gun at certain temperature; the work of pressure roller is to straight strips
with combination of heat and pressure. Further roller is rotated and the strip coming out from
pressure roller and fixed into the wounded on other end. Later as the motor starts pulley starts
rotating leading to cut strips smoothly and cutter strips are collected on the wounded drum. A
plastic bottle strip cutter machine is makes the use of plastic bottle waste while also producing
raw material for users to create new products for many purposes [6].
3.2 MECHANISM OF STRIP MAKING MACHINE FROM WASTE PLASTIC BOTTLE
This machine is powered by an electric motor which is connected to the power cord or electric
wire. It have a control unit that on/off the motor. If the control unit is on the motor would be
start and power transfer to the gear box. The gear box is connected to the shafts. Since the
shaft will connect to the wheel or strip winding that fixe on the frame by using connected rod.
It also fixes the cutting blade and steel (putting plastic bottle) within the frame in five degree
tilt. Then the motor start to run, the wheel will be rotate in clockwise direction by means of
shaft and gear box. Accordingly the wheel rotates the connected rod of the cutting blade will
be rotates. At that time the cutting blade is strips the plastic bottle and produce ropes. In same
time the wheel is begird (enwrap) or in close the ropes.

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3.3 DESIGN METHODOLOGY

The design methodology shows us how the design started, how data was collected, and how
the next steps done. The thesis is done by using data Collection in two ways.
Primary data
 By Interview
 Observation

Secondary data
 By use different books, journals and other research paper
 Collect information from internet
The main method we follow to reach the final design includes as follows

Problem identification

Market/literature survey

Selection and problem analysis

Creating the conceptual design

Selection of material
Design
modification

Design Analysis and optimization

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No Yes
Result
(ok) Implementation

The main components of the waste plastic bottle strip making machine is includes
 Cutting blade(8)
 Machine screws
 Gear box
 Strip winding(wheel)
 Electric system control(on/off)
 Wheel
 Strip locker/fixer
 Frame
 Electric motor
 Nut and bolt
3.4 EXPECTED OUTCOME OF OUR PROJECT
Our outcome is basic and simple to build bottle strip making machine that meets all the
objective boundaries. New modification improves all the issue looked in existing work. The
as it were one there residual markers to be estimated that we don't anticipate meeting is target
of 80% reused material. We accept that the eventual outcome of this task will be an incredible
advantage to the middle and their objectives. The new modification is basic, simple to build
and utilize, solid, modest, and most amusing to utilize. We are extremely satisfied with the
last new modification made for the bottle strip making machine and the modification cycle as
a rule.

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CHAPTER FOUR
4. BUDGET
Table 1 budget
Budget Category Unit Cost Multiplying Factor Total Cost
1 Personnel Daily Wage Number of staff (Birr)
(Birr) days
1.1 Salary for Assistant 120 1*120 120
1.2 Expenses for sub-contracted professional 500 5*500 2500
data collectors
1.3 Expenses for researcher 250 24*250 6000
Total Personnel Expense 8620
2. Material and Supply Expenses
2.1 Supplies required throughout the research 1000
like pen, paper, erasers, voice recorder
etc.
Total Material and Supply Expense 1000

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3. Travel Expenses 1800

3.1 Domestic travels required for interviewing 1000 3*1000 3000
project managers of company at regional
and national level
Total Travel Expense 4800
4. Publication/Documentation/ 200
Dissemination
4.1 Expenses required for documentation and 400
Dissemination such as printing, copying,
computer service etc.
Total 600
Publication/Documentation/Disseminatio
n Expense
5. Recreational Expenses 1500
5.1 Break time expenses such as tea, coffee 800
etc.
Total Recreational Expense 2300
Other Expenses (Miscellaneous) 1000
6. Total Miscellaneous Expense 1000
Expense Grand Total 18320

CHAPTER FIVE

5. WORK PLAN
Table 2 work plan
No Phases Time Activity
1 First phase Data collection:-
 primary data collections by
- Interview with concerned body
- Observation
 Secondary data collection by
- Use different books.
- Collect information from internet
2 second phase Design analysis:-
 design of components
 making analysis with the help of
Software like solid work
3 third phase Design analysis:-

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 design of components
 making analysis with the help of
Software like solid work
4 Preparing for final thesis presentation

Table 3 work plan in chart

Weeks(starts from April 02/2014)
01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08
Collecting data
and select the
title

submitting thesis
title
Proposal writing
and presentation
Writing all
information and
Design the thesis
Analysis the
components of
machine
Final thesis
submission and
presentation

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9. Miguel Friedenbach, Buenos Aires (AR) May 13, 2004,“tool for cutting used
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10. Matatas, (2015) "PET String cutter (string from plastic bottles)."

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