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Vikoz Makes Plastic Recycling Easy by Purchasing Scrap Plastic Anywhere in the U.S. or Canada
Vikoz Enterprises is now purchasing plastic scrap for recycling anywhere in the United States and Canada. In a day and age when plastic products are found in nearly everything we use on a daily basis, the disposal of discarded plastic materials and plastic scrap has become a major environmental concern, and in today’s “green” society the proper recycling of plastics has become ...
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Newly-developed Recycling Technology Simultaneously Sorts and Collects Three Types of Plastic
Panasonic Corporation recently developed a recycling technology that simultaneously sorts and collects three types of plastic - PP, PS, and ABS - from shredded dust produced at home electronics appliances recycling plants at three times the speed of conventional systems. This technology will help accelerate the use of recycled plastic. Panasonic Corporation recently developed a recycling ...
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Big Push to Recycle Plastic
Cold extrusion is playing an ever greater part in recycling of waste plastic, and the Department for Business and Enterprise is sponsoring research into development of the machinery necessary for such work. Engineers at Bradford University have built a pilot plant and are running a series of trials with different processes, feed plastics, additives, and final products. Leader of the project, Dr ...
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Why Applying Pyrolysis To Waste Plastic Recycling Plants Is A Great Option
Many businesspeople that are associated with converting plastic waste aren’t mindful of pyrolysis. This can be unfortunate as much research suggests that pyrolysis is probably the best ways of recycling plastic waste. Those that are in the commercial of recycling are able to see record profits through their waste plastic recycling plants when they opt to utilize this special process. Thus, here’s ...
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Waste Plastic Recycling Machine
Plastic is industrial material, and extensive application in the world. Plastics have unique advantage that is ease of production, consistent quality and light. GEP ECOTECH is professional manufacturer of waste plastic recycling machine which is used for plastic waste collected to be reclaimed. More information about plastic recycling machine, please contact us. Waste plastic recycling shredder ...
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New mixed plastics recycling on trial in Bristol
A new doorstep collection trial for mixed plastics which aims to collect as much as 774 tonnes in a year has started in Bristol. The trial scheme is being run by Bristol City Council in conjunction with its waste contractor SITA, and will initially target around 17,500 homes across the city. Residents have been provided with a specially designed waterproof sack for them to put the plastics in, ...
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Axion urges designers to ‘challenge the norms’ in drive to increase recycled polymer use
Product designers should ‘challenge the norms’ with clients and think along more ‘circular’ lines to encourage greater uptake of recycled polymers in new goods, urges a leading plastics reprocessor. Recognising strong market drivers, such as resource scarcity, oil price volatility and growing consumer demand for sustainable products, while working within the pre-set ...
By Axion Group
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SSI SPOTLIGHT: Plastics & the UniShear® SR500
This month we take a look at a Plastic recycling facility located in the USA to learn how they use their Uni-Shear® SR500 to their advantage. "A couple key elements on this shredder were the new design features we recognized over every other shredder we've had in use prior," said Mark regarding the SR500. "The size of the hopper, the size of the rotor, the cutting angle of the cutters and ...
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Biffa acquires Esterpet to strengthen plastic recycling division
Biffa has today (26 April) announced the acquisition of North Yorkshire-based PET plastic recycling company Esterpet for an undisclosed sum. Esterpet owns a 25,000 tonnes per year capacity PET plant near Leeds, turning PET bottles into “high-purity plastic pellets”. Biffa’s statement explained that that the pellets produced by Esterpet “are made into new plastic bottles ...
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WRAP funds mixed plastics facility
Construction of a new 20,000 tonnes per year capacity mixed plastics facility is to be funded by the Waste & Resources Action Programme. Redcar-based waste firm Greenstar WES received the grant to reprocess non-bottle household plastic packaging waste in January this year, after successfully entering a £2M capital grant competition launched by WRAP in June 2009. (see MRW story) Now, 20,000 ...
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Fire Shield Advise on Minimising Fire Risk
The global drive towards sustainability has seen businesses continually looking for alternative fuel sources, resulting in an increase in rubber and plastic recycling across the UK. However, rubber and plastic recycling often requires high volume storage for extended periods of time, as well as intense processing. This creates unique fire risks, as shown in the troubling fire record for recycling ...
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Industry Urges Consumers To Back Plastics Recycling
Almost 9 out of 10 consumers (86%) have faith that the plastics they recycle are made into something new, according to a new waste industry survey. The TNS poll of 1,000 adults was conducted on behalf of M&S, Veolia Environmental Services, Closed Loop Recycling and RecycleBank. Chris Dow, Managing Director of Closed Loop Recycling, says: “Great Britain is a nation of Great Recyclers ...
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Exactly What Is The Average Waste Plastic Recycling Plant Cost
Choosing a plastic recycling plant doesn't have to be expensive. It is possible to usually get one of these simple for a very reasonable cost that may process a lot of material. Whether you get a small one, or possibly a large one, they are likely to assist you in making a lot of cash. The increased exposure of recycled products, especially when it comes to biofuels, is likely to make all of the ...
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Finance of £17.1m secured for plastics recycling plant
A £17.1m funding package for a 80,000 tonnes capacity plastics recycling plant has been secured by a partnership of European Metals Recycling and MBA Polymers. The Royal Bank of Scotland provided the money for the joint venture, MBA Poymers UK, to support the purchase and development of the site in Worksop, Nottingham. Work on the plant has started with completion expected in early 2010. The ...
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Should You Purchase A Small Scale Plastic Recycling Plant?
Recently, plastic recycling is getting a lot of positive attention. Due to this, there are numerous of people that have been looking at purchasing some type of plastic recycling plant. Can be a small scale plastic recycling unit something you need to spend money on? Contemplate these questions if you're trying to decide how to deal with your money. Have You Got Experience Operating A Plant ...
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Nestlé Invests in Yes Recycling Flexible Plastic Processing Plant
Nestlé UK and Ireland has partnered with Yes Recycling in order to process hard-to-recycle plastics in Fife. The plant is intended to turn flexible plastics, such as those typically used in food packaging, into building materials – traditionally, this material was considered unrecyclable due to facilities being unable to process flexible plastic waste at scale locally. Nestlé ...
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Aylesford newprint`s chris white to take up plastics recycling role
Aylesford Newsprint's commercial manager Chris White is leaving the paper recycling industry for the plastics recycling sector. After 41 years at Aylesford Newsprint, the well-respected paper expert has accepted an offer to be managing director at a PET recycling firm. Although White was unable to disclose which firm he will be working at, he revealed that it is due to open a 20,000 tonne a ...
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Special measures lobby to avoid landfilling recyclables
As part of urgent efforts to prevent the landfilling of recyclable plastics, Recoup is lobbying the Environment Agency to agree special measures on storage exemptions. Temporary measures are needed because material flow in the plastic recycling market has been disrupted by a “unique” decrease in values and demand. This has left some companies with excess material they cannot store or sell. ...
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Recycling Plastic Waste: Investigating Pyrolysis Machine Prices
The abundance of plastic waste worldwide is amongst the biggest environmental problems facing our planet today. Individuals everywhere don't reconsider disposing of huge quantities of plastic stuff like straws, bottles, bags, and coffee cups each year. Everyone is often blinded towards the impacts plastic waste has in the natural environment. The fact is that plastic items may take a very long ...
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Axion Polymers welcomes proposed 500ppm decaBDE limit for recycled plastics
A 500ppm limit of flame retardant decaBDEs within recycled compounds and articles that looks set to be agreed by the EU Commission soon has been welcomed by Axion Polymers as ‘leaving the door open’ for plastic recycling and the use of recyclate in new products. The Manchester-based plastics recycler describes the 500ppm level in recycled plastics as a ‘workable’ solution, ...
By Axion Group
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