as Pasir Panjang beach and Oesapa Beach, there is a
great deal of plastic waste that pollutes the
environment and will undoubtedly have further
repercussions if not addressed immediately.
The issue of plastic trash is not just an
environmental concern, but also an opportunity for
commercial growth. Therefore, several residents of
Kupang city view this opportunity as a source of
income-generating employment opportunities. The
scavengers will begin to collect and sell plastic waste
to plastic collectors, who will subsequently ship and
sell the plastic waste to the island of Java to be
converted into plastic raw materials.
Based on the preliminary study conducted by the
author in Kupang Regency of East Nusa Tenggara
Province, at various plastic collection sites run by
local citizens in the Kupang City, the collected plastic
was sent directly to the main island of java in
Surabaya without further processing. If the plastic has
been treated (crushed into shreds), it will be
significantly easier to pack and ship. In addition, the
selling price will be more than that of plastic garbage
sold in its entirety.
According to the findings of interviews with a
number of plastic collectors, there is hope that the
community will process the plastic waste into small
pieces before sending it to Java for recycling, but due
to the high cost of the chopper machine and
technological limitations, all plastics collector in
Kupang city continue to operate under the current
conditions. Seeing the data and the reality on the
ground, the author attempts to design and fabricate a
Shredding Machines for Shredding Plastic Bottles
and plastics cups with a simple cutting process so that
it can be more effective in packing and shipping
plastic waste than shipping plastic waste in its intact
form, which is deemed inefficient.
The objective of this research is to design a Plastic
Shredding Machine to obtain small plastic waste in
such a way that it enables recycling industry
professionals to obtain waste automatically and is
also very useful for reducing plastic pollution in the
environment.
2 RELATED WORKS
Plastic waste shredding machines are extremely
important, as a number of studies have demonstrated
as follows;
(A. Waleola Ayo, et all, 2017) recognized that
when disposable plastic is shredded, the small pieces
can be used to create new plastic products.
Accordingly, they proposed the development of a
plastic waste shredding machine. The machine's
performance is 27.3 kg/h and its efficiency is 53% for
all types of plastic and 95% for polyvinyl chloride
plastic, concluding that the machine could be very
useful in situations where large quantities of plastics
need to be crushed and is also effective in crushing
large sizes.
(Nuri Aryani et al., 2019) conducted a study to
design and fabricate a plastic shredder machine using
the Pahl and Beitz method, which consists of
designing and describing the job, designing the
product concept, constructing the machine, and
designing the details. The plastic shredder machine
consists of blades or a cutter, a spur gear-shaped
transmission element, an electric motor, and a
machine body. The types of plastic waste to be
shredded are LDPE, HDPE, PP, and PS Based on its
design, a plastic shredder machine can produce small
flakes measuring approximately 10 mm in length and
1 mm in width.
(Witman Alvarado-Diaz, 2021), conducted a
study to design a plastic shredding machine to obtain
small plastic waste to assist people in being dedicated
to the recycling industry in an automated way, it
would also generate jobs because it requires a staff in
charge of the machine, and it will also be extremely
useful in reducing plastic pollution in the
environment, which is increasing due to COVID-19
The plastic will be selected by color and type of
plastic composition, whether it is Polyethylene
Terephthalate (PET), High Density Polyethylene
(HDPE), Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE),
Polychloride vinyl (PVC), or Others (Plastic Mix),
then it will go through the shredding process to
become small plastic waste, which could be turned
into filament for 3D printers, using the design of the
plastic waste shredding machine.
Jaypalsinh Rana, (2020), Conduct a study to
design and construct a lightweight and inexpensive
plastic shredder machine. So, the goal of this project
is to process plastic garbage as cheaply as possible by
cutting where it is made to reduce labour work, which
results in cost savings. This project describes the trial
with plastic bottle cutting machines as well as the
examination of the machine's mechanism. A plastic
bottle cutter is a machine that cuts plastic into little
pieces to facilitate waste management. We are
developing this project model to be used for the
recycling of plastic waste in the home, industries, and
scrap collectors. This machine is a solution to the
space problem.
Adepo, S. O, and Obanoyen, N. O. (2017),
conducted a study to design and construct a plastic
shredding machine, which is an integral part of plastic
recycling process. By crushing used plastic bottles,
the plastic bottle crushing device assists in the
management and disposal of municipal waste. Due to
the use of readily available local raw materials during