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♻️ DIY Soft Plastic Upcycling
Custom materials like no other.
Turn your favourite snack wrapper into your next sewing project. Noodle packs, chocy wrappers, coffee bags - transform bin-bound plastic into head-turning, sewable materials in just a few minutes.
💚 Take Impact Into Your Own Hands
Overwhelmed with impact fatigue? Transform bin-bound plastic into fancy new materials without leaving the house. This easy to follow process syncs your values with your craft. Make a real impact with every experiment.
🔥 Key Outcomes
Delivered in 20 fluff-free minutes of info-packed videos and visual content. Tutorial includes:
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A two-part production process refined over hundreds of creations
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How to source, prep and safely fuse different soft plastics
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Creative applications, layering effects and composition ideas
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How to troubleshoot potential issues
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Access to the growing INTO community of 1000+ fellow upcyclers
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Direct support with Luke through the comment section of each lesson
🛠️ What You'll Need
If you can iron a shirt, you can upcycle soft plastic! No special tools, training or knowledge needed... all you need is:
- An iron
- Baking paper (parchment paper)
- Vapour mask (plastic fumes are no joke, safety guide included in tutorial)
- Soft plastic trash!
💚 Material Sources We Love
- Your favourite food packaging. Noodles, chips, chocy bars.
- Cling wrap / pallet wrap
- Plastic coffee bags. Your local coffee roaster will have heaps!
- Mesh fruit netting bags
- Bubble wrap, protective covers and heapssss more
♻️ Why This Tutorial?
Fear not the uncertainty of learning a new technique. We've done the trial and error for you with hundreds of experiments in a decade of upcycling. Get the distilled learnings and successes in an easy to follow process so you can spend less time testing and more time making!
🌍 Start Upcycling today
Backed by a decade of experiments, this method has helped 800+ community members create quality materials from household trash. Get instant access and start your next head-turning piece today.
Soft plastic is the most overlooked material in the world of upcycling. Yet, it can be recycled with everyday household equipment. This online tutorial details the process start to finish so you can turn soft plastic waste into new creative materials.
We've trialled countless types of soft plastic over hundreds of experiments and identified an easy to follow fundamental process that will get you creating new material from soft plastic trash. All with stuff you have lying around your house!
Estimated Tutorial length: 30-45 minutes (19min 18sec Video + 20-30 min visual)
♻️ Key Learnings
♻️ What to look for when sourcing soft plastic
♻️ Equipment needed (key items are iron, baking paper and mask)
♻️ Safety (important)
♻️ How to prepare your soft plastic for upcycling
♻️ Detailed step by step guidelines of our two part production process
♻️ Invitations to experiment with different soft plastic materials and upcycling processes
♻️ Troubleshooting potential issues
♻️ Access to INTO online community to connect with other upcyclers from around the globe
🚀 Learning Format
The tutorial is a combination of visual and written learnings. There are explainer videos at every step of the process plus imagery and text to accompany each step.
This tutorial is hosted on 'INTO', our online community for likeminded upcycling explorers to connect, share ideas and kudos.
Feel free to post your work to the community page for feedback from us or the rest of the community!
***A unique link to join the community with the tutorial inside it will be sent to your email after purchasing***
💚 Who this tutorial is for
Pressing soft plastic is great skill to have in your making tool belt. If you already sew, being able to create your own materials will open a world of creative possibilities. If you're new to the world of creating or upcycling, this will kick start your curiosity in bringing value back to overlooked materials.
This tutorial is hosted on the INTO community platform. This is an online space for like minded change-makers to learn, connect and share ideas.
The INTO community is free to join so feel free to check it out before purchasing this tutorial. As you purchase tutorials, they will each be added to your profile so you can continue accessing them again and again.
We encourage you to post and share your work with the community for feedback and inspiration!
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Mission
Upcycling is easier than you think!
Luke @intocarry.co
the art of upcycling
Bring Value to Overlooked Materials
FAQ - Pressing Soft Plastic
This process works for pretty much all soft plastics including food wrapper, fruit netting bags, mattress sleeves, bubble wrap, cling wrap, garbage bags, anything thinner than paper and made from plastic will work (or at least, we haven't found anything that doesn't work).
Important to note that combining different plastic types may cause issues. Eg. A plant-based compostable plastic will not work with a standard plastic type. Try to keep the same types of plastic grouped together :)
The basic necessities are a basic domestic iron, some baking paper/parchment paper, something flat and heavy like a book or chopping board and a mask (vapour mask).
Absolutely, you can watch it as many times as you like! You have lifetime access so it's yours to view wherever, forever'n'ever.
Nope! You absolutely do not need any prior experience upcycling to get value from this tutorial.
After purchasing the tutorial, you will get two emails. The first is an order confirmation, disregard that for now. The second email will be titled "INTO CARRY FILE DOWNLOAD HERE". Open this and click the orange link and it will take you to your tutorial :)
This is a material upcycling tutorial. However! We have included a glasses case pattern at the end of the tutorial so you can create something straight out of the gates. This pattern doesn't require a domestic sewing machine... just a needs and thread.
Click the messenger button in the bottom right of the screen to send me a message or shoot me an email at luke@intocarry.co
Please note I am based in Australia so I may not reply straight away if we are in different time zones but I will respond ASAP :)
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Join luke for a one hour live online demonstration of the soft plastic upcycling process
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