Recycling of plastics: Making of the plastics chips

Plastics is one of the most used materials in the world, when it comes to day to day life. Use and throw plastics articles create the worst pollution that mankind had ever seen in its history. Water and soil pollution are the two major yet preventable effects of plastics. The well known solution to this environmental problem is recycling of plastics. Recycling plastics not only helps us in reducing pollution but also has positive financial impacts to the businesses. 

Industrial plastics waste can be recycled without having to do much segregation work. However plastics from consumer waste do need segregation work.  It needs trained hands to separate different kinds of plastics. Some of the commonly used plastics in the day to day usage include HDPE, LDPE, PP, ABS, PVC, and the like. It is easy to identify the type of plastics used for making specific goods. For example, most Electrical wire insulating pipes are made of PVC,  and LDPE is used in a major way when it comes to packing liquids like milk and oil.

However, when it comes to things like bucket, mug, and other utilities, several types of plastics are used. One can make a bucket using HDPE as well as PP.  Manufactures use different materials in order to make their products cheaper and durable. In such cases there are a few simple tests that can help you in identifying the type of material used for making the object. Well I shall discus the identification of plastics for recycling in a different post. It is important that the color separation must be done during this stage.

 
Once the segregation is done, the plastics materials should be shredded into tiny pieces using a shredder which is also termed as a grinder. The size of the chips produced by grinding or shredding waste plastics can be determined by the size of holes in the mesh.  There are traders that can purchase these plastics chips as such without any further process. This is the simplest form of business in the plastics recycling arena.