An item made of plastic is recycled into a different product, which generally cannot be recycled again.
Stages in Plastic Recycling
Before recycling any plastic waste, it must go through five different stages.
Since the idea is that it can be used more to manufacture various types of products.
Classification:
It is necessary that each plastic item be separated according to its brand and type so that it can be processed accordingly in the shredding machine.
Washed:
Once sorting has been done, plastic
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This improves the quality of the finished product.
Trituration:
After washing, the plastic waste is loaded onto different conveyor belts that pass the waste through the different shredders.
These shredders break plastic into small granules, preparing them for recycling into other products.
*Polypropylene: Polypropylene can be processed by virtually all thermoplastic processing methods.
Most typical PP products are manufactured by blow extrusion, injection molding and general purpose extrusion.
Expanded polypropylene (EPP) can be molded in a specialized process.
*Polystyrene: Toys and novelties, rigid packaging, refrigerator trays and boxes, cosmetic and jewelry packages, lighting diffusers, audio cassettes and CD cases.
Extrusion:
This involves melting the shredded plastic so it can be extruded into pellets, which are then used to make different types of plastic products.
Plastic Recycling Processes
Among the many plastic waste recycling processes, the following two are the most popular in the industry.
Heat compression:
This type of plastic recycling is gaining special demand in the United States, Australia and Japan due to its ability to recycle all types of plastic at once.