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Balers for Recycling All Types of Plastics
Balers are used to minimize waste and condense recyclable materials into dense, easier to transport bales for recycling. Materials that are commonly baled include aluminum, cardboard, paper, non-ferrous metals and all types of plastics. ...
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Choosing Non-Ferrous Metal Balers
Recycling non-ferrous metals is big business. Non-ferrous metals that are often recycled include aluminum, copper, lead, zinc, nickel, titanium, cobalt, chromium and other precious metals. Of all these metals, aluminum is the most abundant metal in the earth’s crust, and not surprisingly, also one of the most recycled materials today. Recycling non-ferrous metals is important because even ...
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Vertical Or Horizontal Recycling Balers
How Do You Know If You Need Vertical Or Horizontal Recycling Balers? The first question you should ask yourself is, “Do I need a Baler At All?” If your business creates excess recyclable commodities such as OCC, PET, aluminum, paper, plastic, foam, textiles, shrink wrap, or non-ferrous metals, then the answer is a resounding “Yes!”. Investing in vertical or horizontal ...
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Baling machines increasingly becoming an important part of industry
Baling machines have taken on an increased role as the business world moves towards a more environmentally-friendly way of doing things, and “recycling” becomes the norm. In short, materials that were once waste in decades past are now reusable. In addition to such, recyclable materials carry a definitive dollar value, making the efficient handling of these materials increasingly important. ...
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Benefits Of A Closed End Horizontal Baler
Benefits Of Using A Baler For Your Business There are many well documented reasons for using a recycling baler in your business operations. Recycling commodities such as cardboard, aluminum, paper, non-ferrous metals, and plastics helps to reduce waste hauling, increase space, minimize your carbon footprint, improve safety and appearance, and provide an additional revenue stream for your ...
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Recycling Hard Plastic and trash bales with ACA Bale opener
The modern world has shifted its focus towards sustainable living and eco-friendly practices. One of the critical aspects of this is the recycling of plastic materials. Among them, hard plastic packaging stands out due to its unique features and challenges when it comes to recycling. ACA Industry provides solutions for managing and recycling this hard plastic material from ...
By ACA Industry
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Choosing a Paper Baler for Paper Recycling
Paper Shortage On The Horizon This past year, it seems like the supply chain shortages are the only thing NOT in short supply. Media outlets are now reporting that there could be another global shortage on paper and paper products, due to high demand of these commodities. That’s another reason why now, more than ever, as the value increases, we need to consider recycling paper. Paper, ...
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California Recycling Centers Incentivized By “Bottle Bill”
The State Of California Recycling Centers According to the Container Recycling Institute, California has lost 50% of their recycling centers between 2013 and 2022. A recent CRI report states “the redemption center closures have stemmed primarily from an outdated state subsidy formula that results in severe underpayments to the centers to supplement the scrap values of recycled ...
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Project - New Intermediate Screening Line at the Manises Plant, Valencia
The biological mechanical treatment plant is located in the Municipal District of Manises (Valencia), and its owner is the Metropolitan Entity for Waste Treatment of the Metropolitan Area of Valencia (EMTRE). The construction and operation of the plant was awarded to the Temporary Union of Companies SFS Installation 3, formed by SAV (Agricultural Society of Valencia, 65.01%) and FCC (Promotion of ...
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Recycled Plastic: A Valuable Untapped Resource
Shortages of recycled materials and, as a consequence, hefty price increases, were hot topics at BIR World Recycling Convention. The upside may be that plastics will be considered a valuable untapped resource driving up the recycling rate and being an incentive for innovation in the field. Using balers to sort and compact used packaging material directly at source facilitates and encourages ...
By Orwak AB
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The Difference Between Balers and Compactors
Some people who are new to the recycling and waste management industry may not fully understand the difference between balers and compactors. If you have a business that produces any type of waste or recyclable material that needs to be disposed of, both a baler and a compactor can help make this process easier and more cost effective. But you do need to know the difference between baler and ...
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What Is a Vertical Baler?
Vertical Balers are machines that are commonly used in the recycling industry to form and press old cardboard into a block. There are a number of different types of balers, all of which are designed to compact waste materials. These machines are similar to compactors, with one important difference. Unlike compactors, balers are designed to produce blocks, or bales, of material for easy handling. ...
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Closed Loop Aluminum Recycling
What is Closed Loop Recycling? Closed Loop Recycling is an environmentally and economically sustainable concept that has been around for decades. It involves the collection, recycling, manufacturing, and selling of a recycled product as new in a continuous cycle. Aluminum, glass, and plastics are all examples of recyclable commodities used in closed loop systems. Aluminum is one of the most ...
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Pepin Distributing - Working Toward No Waste
Working Toward No Waste Companies all around the world are looking for ways to reduce waste and the stress it places on our environment. Many businesses look to recoup revenue through recycling processes using Harmony recycling balers. Recyclers pay top dollar for bales of recyclable materials that can be repurposed into reusable raw materials. But, there are times that companies find creative ...
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Case study - Grundon Waste Management Ltd. – England - Single stream waste sorting plant for MRF
Customer Grundon Waste Management Ltd. is the largest privately owned waste management company in the UK. The company was founded in 1929 and has moved into landfill operation, waste collection, and most recently into harnessing energy from waste. The company offers a wide range of waste collection services spanning mixed recyclables, general (non-recyclable) waste, clinical and hazardous waste. ...
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Industrial Metal Shredder for Sale
AIShred offers a variety of low-speed, high-torque shredders for volume reduction and recovery of ferrous and non-ferrous scrap metal materials. From industrial operations and scrap yards to state-of-theart electronics recycling facilities, AIShred shredders can be found processing all types of metals around the world. Our low-speed, high-torque technologies provide efficient solutions for metal ...
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Ragger Wire Shredding Plant
Ragger wire consists of the plastic staples, tape, labels and baling wire found in baled post-consumer paper waste, we also call them as “pulper tail”. It is made up of approximately 45% steel and 55% post consumer waste and must be removed from the pulper. During the pulping process, the waste material winds around the wire, creating a tail-like chain which is highly compressed and ...
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Should You Rent, Lease or Purchase Cardboard Balers?
Waste disposal is more complex than just throwing away unwanted material. How you dispose of it, whether you recycle it and where it will ultimately land up are important concerns. Organizations all over the world are implementing environmental friendly methods to dispose of their waste. One popular technique is to compact the materials waiting to be recycled. Materials such as cardboard are ...
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Waste at business parks
Virtually every town has at least one business park serving the needs of companies of all sizes looking for convenient office space with enough parking space to accommodate all the needs of their staff. The concentration of so many businesses brought together has obvious implications for waste disposal. Even when the individual companies deal with their own waste, management companies still ...
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Saving potentials with baling presses
Many companies face the decision of how to dispose of daily accumulating packaging material, films or other waste. Only very few companies can reuse these or even recycle this themselves (e.g. by means of own recycling or waste disposal facilities). The accumulated reusable materials can, on the one hand, be disposed of in a container or other vessel in an untreated condition. These containers ...
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