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What would be the best type of plastic to melt into a clay mold, to produce a small figurine, something that a person would have normally, already in their household - such as soda bottles, milk bottles, plastic container, plastic silverware, etc?
I'm making butterflies using feathers as the wings, and I would like to make the bodies using recycled plastic somehow.
So you want to know what plastic you can use to melt into your mold right? The hard ones are recommended: plastic containers and bottle caps. You will shred them into small pieces and them melt them.
The soda bottles can be melted but it might give you a different result if you mix it with other plastic sources.
Here is some example based on what you are about to do (clay mold): http://www.atomicshrimp.com/st/content/plastic_moulding
Of course you must always use apropriate equipment.
