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Latest Posts Under: Plastic Recycling

All You Need To Know About Recycled Plastic Lumber

For many years, wood was the preferred choice for structural components. However, due to their natural origins, wood-based products have certain structural defects, like low-dimensional stability, fungal damage, wormholes, warping, cracks, knots and some other imperfections that result from drying and varied moisture content. These defects have a huge impact on the overall strength of …

Understanding The Importance Of Recycling Plastics

The pursuit of sustainability is in the forefront of business decisions taken by global manufacturers of plastic products. This has resulted in many of these businesses adopting plastic recycling in a big way to reduce packaging discards and bring down waste at manufacturing facilities. A plastic product’s lifecycle is not over when it is placed …

Understanding The Potential Of RDF and SRF For Sustainable Plastic Waste Management

It’s been a little over hundred years since plastic was introduced and popularized across the globe. Mankind has spent a good part of the last few decades searching for the right way to dispose of plastic sustainably. Over the years, many solutions were introduced to dispose of plastic waste in a manner that doesn’t impact …

5 Benefits of Recycling Plastic

5 Benefits of Recycling Plastic

For decades, plastic has played a central role in industries as diverse as Packaging, Textiles, Construction, Electronics, Transportation, and Machinery. Plastic’s popularity can be attributed to the fact that it is lightweight, chemically stable and capable of being moulded into a variety of shapes and sizes.  Since plastic is highly versatile, you will find it …

How Robots are Used to Sort out Plastic for Recycling

Each year, plastic recycling companies go through 68 million tons of plastic waste. This weight can be compared to over 30 million vehicles. The entire process of sorting plastic waste is carried out by workers. They sort trash like paper, glass, and plastic that comes through in a conveyor belt. Jobs like these can be …

Interesting Plastic Recycling Facts that Will Surprise You

Plastics recycling is expanding and growing due to product companies, recyclers, and people who are taking continuous efforts and making innovative advances to efficiently use this versatile material. It’s absolutely true that recycling plastics and other materials saves resources and helps protect the environment. In the last 10 years alone, we have come a long …

How Robots Can Efficiently Sort out Plastic for Recycling

Did you know that trash companies sift through 68 million tons of recycling waste each year? This weight is equivalent to more than 30 million vehicles. This process is undertaken by workers that sort out trash like glass, plastic, and paper that spread out in conveyor belts. Such jobs can often be unsafe and it …

What are Green Plastics &Their Environmental Benefits?

What are Green Plastics &Their Environmental Benefits? The awareness and concern over Earth’s environmental degradation are rapidly increasing around the globe. As a result, an increasing number of businesses and innovators are focusingon environmentally sustainable alternatives. One such alternative that has come up is called ‘Green Plastic’. Plastics can be found everywhere around you. Most …

A Quick Overview of Plastic Recycling & its Processes

One of the most inexpensive, lightweight and durable materials on our planet, plastics are used in a plethora of applications. They play an incredible role in making our day to day lives convenient. Over 100 million tons of plastic are manufactured across the globe, every year. They are foamed, laminated, thermoformed and extruded into countless …

Plastics – Changing Waste Generation Patterns

As a rule of thumb, a country produces waste in proportion to its economic growth. And when it came to waste generation, the United States followed through that rule for decades. So if a country is affluent that would mean, it consumes more and consequently generates more waste. This is the cycle that usually follows. …