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Plastic recycling is the process of recovering waste or scrap plastic and reprocessing these materials into other functional and practical products. Because almost all plastic is non-biodegradable, it must be recycled as part of the global efforts to reduce plastic and other solid waste in the environment.
Plastics should be recycled because of several reasons:
Every year more than 400 million tons of plastic waste is produced globally, of which only 9 percent is recycled.
Approximately 80 percent of waste generated from plastic accumulates in landfills or the environment, and around 11 percent is incinerated.
No, not all plastic is recyclable, and much of the plastic ends up in landfills. This is either because it is currently impossible to recycle, individuals don't take it to be recycled, or local authorities don't accept it.
Plastics are derived from organic materials found in nature, such as cellulose, natural gas, oil, coal, minerals, and even plants. Most plastics, however, are from the hydrocarbons that are readily available in natural gas, oil, and coal.
Some types of plastic are highly recyclable, while others aren't. The key to which plastics are recyclable is to examine the plastic for that little triangle made of arrows and then look up the number inside it. Plastic numbers 1, 2, 4 & 5 can be recycled.
You may not have heard of PLA, a new form of compostable plastic made from corn starch. While PLA is compostable, it, along with the other #7s, is not recyclable.
Recyclers that process industrial plastic waste are very selective in accepting the collected plastic waste. They are actively looking for plastic waste streams suitable for recycling into regranulate or products for their buyers. In this manner, some industrial plastic waste material can be recycled profitably, with limited processing.
Plastic recycling is broken up into different stages to be further used for making various types of products. Generally, these stages remain the same for most recycling facilities, but specific steps can be combined or omitted in some situations.
The following is a step by step process of plastic recycling:
The plastic may be moved to different plants that specialize in other process steps throughout this process.
Innovations in recycling technologies have made the plastic recycling process more cost-effective and convenient. Examples of these technologies include reliable detectors and sophisticated decision and recognition software that collectively enhance the productivity and accuracy of the automatic sorting of plastics.
Another important innovation in plastic recycling has been finding higher-value applications for recycled polymers in closed-loop recycling processes.
Much plastic waste is incinerated due to the technical limitations of mechanical plastic recycling technology.
The quality of plastic deteriorates as the number of recycling loops increases, and various types of plastic may prove impossible to separate from the get-go.
However, with innovative plastic recycling technology, for example, through chemical recycling, plastics and their mixtures can be broken down into different raw materials, whose quality is equal to that of respective virgin materials.
A plastic recycling company consists of many scrap suppliers, a recycling plant, shipping facilities, and buyers of the end product.
Plastic recycling companies prefer to purchase directly from larger suppliers, such as retail stores and chain restaurants.
Any successful plastic recycling company needs an uninterrupted supply of scrap plastic.
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