The incredible new tech that can recycle all plastics, forever
Apr 22, 2024 · Plastic, rightly demonised as a scourge of the modern world, could be… "Advanced recycling" promises to convert dirty, mixed waste plastic into brand new plastic time and time again. It is...
Flakes & Regrinds - RecycleBlu
Recycled PET bottle flakes, from post industry, Mixed colour or white. Perfect for black thermoforming sheet production or for fiber manufacturing
From Bottle to Flake: Pioneering the Path to Sustainable Plastic Recycling
May 6, 2024 · ECOPACK, an optical sorter, leverages hyperspectral imaging to distinguish plastics based on composition and color. As bottles enter recycling facilities, mixed with other waste, ECOPACK’s precision in identifying and separating plastic bottles from the …
The New INNOSORT™ FLAKE For Unrivaled Flake Sorting
Nov 7, 2023 · With the new INNOSORT™ FLAKE, mixed plastic fractions that have been shredded and washed can be sorted into clean fractions of PET, PP and PE and other materials that meet the quality requirements for extrusion and the creation of high-quality post-consumer recycled (PCR) content.
An Upcycling Solution to Mixed Plastics Rooted in New Chemistry
Led by Columbia Professors Tomislav Rovis and Sanat Kumar, and collaborators at Colorado State University, the team has devised a new chemical strategy that delivers specifically designed small molecules called universal dynamic crosslinkers into mixed plastic streams.
New Chemical Process Offers Hope for Mixed-Plastics Recycling
Oct 1, 2023 · His team has developed a process that allows different kinds of plastic to be recycled together. Their findings, reported recently in Nature, could give new life to many items that end up in...
A New Material System for Mixed-Plastic Recycling
Sep 19, 2022 · Once they are mixed, those plastics can’t be recovered and most of it ends up in landfills, incinerators, or oceans. Scientists are tackling this challenge using a custom-designed material called polydiketoenamine (PDK), a new type of plastic developed to be recycled efficiently and indefinitely.
MIT students fortify concrete by adding recycled plastic
Oct 25, 2017 · MIT undergraduate students have found that, by exposing plastic flakes to small, harmless doses of gamma radiation, then pulverizing the flakes into a fine powder, they can mix the irradiated plastic with cement paste and fly ash to produce concrete that is up to 15 percent stronger than conventional concrete.
Quality assessment of mixed plastic flakes from Waste Electrical …
Jul 1, 2020 · Quality assessment of mixed plastic flakes at the stage between pre-processors and recyclers increases the transparency of the value chain. In addition, the material composition combined with size and colour distribution of the plastic flakes allows recyclers to estimate the yield of their process.
Preparing WEEE plastics for recycling - ScienceDirect
Mar 1, 2020 · While there are established solutions for recovering the metal fractions, the recycling of mixed plastics into clean, recyclable plastic flakes is a major challenge (Koehnlechner, 2016). The reasons for this are in particular the high complexity of …