Recycling
Reclaiming scrap from production and from consumers to make new plastic parts.
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Looking to Run PCR on a Single Screw? Here’s What to Keep in Mind
Just drop it in and mix it up? Sorry, there’s a lot more to it than that. Here is some of what you need to consider.
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Avoid Four Common Traps In Granulation
Today, more than ever, granulation is an important step in the total production process. Our expert explains a few of the many common traps to avoid when thinking about granulators
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General-Purpose Screws on the Comeback?
They are being specified more often for recycling applications to increase flexibility. But there is still no such thing as a GP screw and recyclers need to consider other processing approaches.
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Recycling: Expanding 'Circularity' through Advanced Recycling Technologies
Recycling and achieving circularity for materials is at the core of the plastics industry’s evolving sustainable business model. Advanced technologies will play a big role.
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How to Ensure Reliable Feeder Performance When Handling PCR
Processors are being challenged to incorporate more recycled material into their products. Yet there are both economical and technical obstacles to achieving this objective—feeding among them. The design of your feeding equipment and the advantages that it will offer to your process will be more important than ever.
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Extrusion: Evaluating Screw Design for Multi-Material Recycling
Since many plastic products are made of a combination of materials with very different melting points, careful consideration must be given to designing screws when it comes time to recycle these products.
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Latest Recycling News And Updates
Recycling Machines Devolatilize and Decontaminate
NPE2024: Recycling for contaminated materials and challenging applications.
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Source One Plastics Starts Up Plastic Waste Sorting and Recycling Facility
Dry processing method is used to reduce energy consumption.
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Continuous Mixer Supports Mechanical and Chemical Recycling Applications
NPE2024: Recycling solution works for a variety of situations including pyrolysis.
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Robotic Sorters With AI Technology Deployed in Fresno Recycling Center
A grant from the Recycling Partnership enabled Implementation of RecycleOS Technology from Everest Labs.
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Twin-Screw Compounder Reduces Energy Consumption in Recycling
NPE 2024: ZSK FilCo combines filtration and compounding in a single step.
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Eastman to Source Rejected Postconsumer PET From Dentis Group
Agreement will provide 30,000 tons of feedstock annually for Eastman's planned chemical recycling facility in France.
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Austrian Recycler's Mission to Recycle PET Takes It Beyond Bottles
Mission PET supplements bottle-to-bottle capability with alternative applications for recycled PET.
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Market Changes Spur Industrial Recycler to Enhance Capabilities in Clear Plastic Reprocessing
Butler MacDonald found new business and flexibility thanks to a big step-up in purging efficiency.
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Scaling Up Sustainable Solutions for Fiber Reinforced Composite Materials
Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Sustainable Manufacturing Technologies Group helps industrial partners tackle the sustainability challenges presented by fiber-reinforced composite materials.
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Foam-Core Multilayer Blow Molding: How It’s Done
Learn here how to take advantage of new lightweighting and recycle utilization opportunities in consumer packaging, thanks to a collaboration of leaders in microcellular foaming and multilayer head design.
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Evolving Opportunities for Ambitious Plastics Recycler
St. Joseph Plastics grew from a simple grinding operation and now pursues growing markets in recycled PP, food-grade recycled materials, and customized post-industrial and post-consumer compounds.
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Purpose-Built System Enhances Capacity and Flexibility for Recycler
A Boston recycler invested in a turnkey shredding, granulation and elutriation system to expand its plastics reclaim business.
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FAQ: Recycling
The American Chemistry Council (ACC) defines advanced recycling as, “several different processes that use existing and emerging technologies that return post-use plastics to their basic chemical building blocks for creating a versatile mix of new plastics, chemicals, fuels, and other products.” The phrase “advanced recycling” accomplishes two things, it denotes that these are technologies that go deeper into the polymer than the mechanical recycling process. It also reinforces the concept that these processes, while unfamiliar to the usual recycle value chain, are indeed a form of recycling.
What type of testing equipment should recyclers have in their lab?
If they have not already, recyclers should consider investing in the following:
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Melt Indexers
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Moisture analyzer
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Near-infrared Spectroscopy
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X-ray fluorescence
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Oven
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Automatic tensile tester
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Blender
