Recycle Plastic Injection Molding Advanced Technology

What plastic is not recycled?

• plastic bag
  Plastic bags are by far the worst pollutant. Please do not recycle plastic bags. The plastic bags collected on the roadside are found in our sorting equipment but are not recycled.
• foam
  White foam cups and containers, usually with a # 6 on the bottom, are non-renewable plastic. These products can easily avoid their safe, reusable or recyclable counterparts.
  It is not possible for all # 1 simple plastic, can you?  broad by design become an all-encompassing of polycarbonate (PC) and “other” plastic.

Recycle Plastic Process

The recycling plastic process is actually pretty long-winded and complicated! It involves a lot of sorting, cleaning, and melting before it can be reused. Let’s get started, shall we?

Most recycling centers use what is known as a single stream recycling system. That is, all recyclable goods including plastic, metal, glass, paper are collected all at once. These different types of recyclable goods must first get sorted.

Plastic Types Sort

Unlike recycling glass, metal, and paper which is pretty straightforward, plastics must be further sorted by plastic types (that is PP, PE, ABS, PET, etc…).

This is because some plastic types cannot be melted with each other due to different melting points and properties. If two plastic types are melted together, the resulting mixture is usually weak in structure and will solidify in layers (like oil and water). Therefore, mixed plastic types cannot be efficiently used for product manufacturing.

In fact, most recycling centers only take two types of plastic products.

Commonly type  PET plastic and  HDPE plastic

The plastic numbers are usually found imprinted at the bottom of plastic products. This is the number inside the recycle symbol. Before sending any plastic to the recycling center, make sure you do a little research. If you send a recycling facility something they do not handle, it may end up in landfills.

Now that we have the plastic sorted by type, depending on the recycling facility, it may end up being further sorted by colors. Clear, natural, and white-colored plastic is always the most desirable because it can be dyed to produce other colored plastics. For example, if you have a load of green plastics, they cannot be changed to blue. If you have a mixed-colored lot, it usually gets dyed to produce black plastic products.

The sorting process is very labor-intensive

After the plastic is sorted by type, it is usually packaged and shipped to Asian countries for processing.

The plastic must now be washed to remove any residual sodas or juice. Let’s follow how the common coke bottle is cleaned. While the coke bottle itself is made from PET (or PETE), the bottle cap and label is made from a different plastic-type, PP or PE. Luckily, both PP and PE have densities less than 1 and will float in water. PET, when placed in water, will sink. When the bottle shreds are placed in a tank of water and mixed around, the plastic floating at the top is PP or PE and is manually removed. The bottom layer is PET and will move onto the next step.

While water takes care of partially cleaning the plastic, it must now be cleaned using a corrosive solution to remove any glues or chemicals. We now have a sorted and cleaned batch of plastic shreds which are placed in large dryers to remove moisture. At this time, the flakes are either sold or transported to another location for production into plastic pellets or nurdles (as pictured above).

Plastic pallets

Plastic pellets are the raw materials required for product manufacturing. One thing to note is that recycled plastics are never as versatile or “good” once it is reused. Recycled plastics are therefore usually “downcycled” into other products. That is, old milk bottles never get to make new ones.  Instead, they are made into a different product all together such as toys.

Oftentimes, recycled plastic is sold to manufacturers that mix recycled materials with virgin material to produce products. This way, they can ensure the finished product to be high in quality while saving (money) the environment.

Environment Protection

Plastic is a popular and widely used material, which needs to be used in various industries. Through maximum reuse and recycle plastics to optimize the life of plastics. For example, by recycling used plastic cans into new plastic packages, we can reduce dependence on new plastic demand.
This means that we can:
Protection of non-renewable petroleum fuels
Reducing energy consumption for the production of new plastics
Reduce solid waste disposal and incineration.
Reduce the emission pollution of harmful gases such as carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

Cnmoulding startup recycle plastic technology

Since the recycle plastic development of breakthrough technology, cnmoulding launched the high quality, low investment program has been recognized by global customers.

The plan to make the recycling of waste plastics to re-imagine the promotion, tenacity, so that the waste into a renewable fuel mixture.
A leading manufacturer of plastic injection molding plans to invest sufficient funds for large-scale commercial operation and will be implemented into the current various types of injection molding processing of new product development projects.
Last month, Cnmoulding signed an investment of $10 million in renewable plastic items. An American company needs to provide safe and environment-friendly and cheap goods, using a unique waste plastic reproduction technology. The successful implementation of the plan, become a pioneering plus price high-quality plastic part production project.
Kenny said: currently injection molding industry in China. A few successful uses of recycled material production manufacturers. Start the creativity of the injection molding process (PIT™) technology. It can be used to convert the low prices, poor quality of materials, transformation for the good quality of production materials.

The recycled plastic products for the production of the market is broad, the provision of technology is the most important.
Only 30% of the waste will be recycled plastic, the rest are waste, the use of waste to produce a renewable new products, there is a very long process, continuous investment in science and technology is necessary.