In a method for reprocessing film waste material, the film waste material is comminuted into recycling material by means of a comminuting device. The recycling material is fed by means of a feeding device in a multi-shaft screw machine. In the multi-shaft screw machine, the recycling material is plasticized into a material melt and processed into raw material. The raw material may again be fed to a production installation for the production of films.

A method of recycling laminated fabrics and laminated fabric products and producing new laminated fabrics and laminated fabric products includes the steps of shredding scrap or used laminated fabric material, melt separating the polymers, pelletizing the melt separated polymers, extruding the pelletized material with at least one virgin material to form a film, and laminating the film to a nonwoven material to form a new laminated fabric. The scrap or recycled laminated fabric products can include plastic/polymer materials having different melting temperatures. The new laminated fabric can be utilized to produce new products, such as protective covers.

The present invention provides particular a novel composition for manufacturing plastic composites and a process thereof. Said invention provides a composition and a process utilizes any or all kind of plastic waste in manufacturing composites and thereby is economical and environment friendly. It utilizes any or all kind of plastic wastes includes road waste, soft & hard form of plastic waste. Moreover, it eliminates the use of cement and utilizes plastic wastes in manufacturing composites; therefore is environment friendly. Said present compositions utilizes plastic waste in manufacturing light weight composites that are highly stable with increased strength, shelf life and durability. Said composition is fire resistant with increased strength withstanding heavy load.

A polyester film having a laminated structure and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The polyester film has at least two polyester film layers. Each of the polyester film layers includes a physically recycled polyester resin and a chemically recycled polyester resin. The physically recycled polyester resin is formed by a plurality of physically recycled polyester chips. The chemically recycled polyester resin is formed by a plurality of chemically recycled polyester chips, and is mixed with the physically recycled polyester resin. The plurality of chemically recycled polyester chips further includes chemically recycled electrostatic pinning polyester chips. The chemically recycled electrostatic pinning polyester chips contain electrostatic pinning additives, and the electrostatic pinning additives are metal salts. The at least two polyester film layers are a white polyester film layer and a black polyester film layer, respectively.

A method of recycling laminated fabrics and laminated fabric products and producing new laminated fabrics and laminated fabric products includes the steps of shredding scrap or used laminated fabric material, melt separating the polymers, pelletizing the melt separated polymers, extruding the pelletized material with at least one virgin material to form a film, and laminating the film to a nonwoven material to form a new laminated fabric. The scrap or recycled laminated fabric products can include plastic/polymer materials having different melting temperatures. The new laminated fabric can be utilized to produce new products, such as protective covers.

A method of recycling post-consumer plastic waste into mono filament for use in fused filament fabrication, injection molding, or other plastic manufacturing processes. Contaminated curbside plastic waste is sorted and granulated to uniform sized flakes. The plastic regrind is cleaned in a closed-loop wash cycle and dried at 160° F. and −70 dew point to reduce the moisture content to less than 0.03%. The effluent water is purified to be reused in the system. The flake plastic is extruded to a molten state and passes through additional melt filtration. A laser micrometer measures extrudate metrics like diameter and ovality to dynamically control feed and flow rates of the extruder to maintain diameter uniformity within 0.018 mm of target diameter.

A system and method are for separating the layers of multilayer plastics, the fragments of multilayer plastic being carried into a receptacle (1) pressurized for 10 to 60 seconds. The receptacle is pressurized using overheated vapor generated in a boiler and introduced into the receptacle until reaching a pressure between 1 and 12 bar and a temperature between 100 and 191.12° C. The fragments are then carried to a discharge tank at a relative pressure between −0.7 and 0.1 bar and at a temperature between 15 and 25° C. for between 1 and 5 minutes. The multilayer fragments are later transferred to a mechanical separation unit where the fragments are separated into fragments of single-layer plastic and, lastly, to a mechanical sorting unit where the fragments are sorted by material.

A cellulose fiber-dispersing resin composite material, containing a cellulose fiber dispersed in a resin, wherein the cellulose fiber-dispersing resin composite material contains aggregates of the cellulose fiber, and at least a part of the aggregates is an aggregate having an area of 2.0×10.sup.4 to 1.0×10.sup.6 μm.sup.2 in a plan view; a formed body using this composite material; and a composite member using this formed body.

The process disclosed herein is method of recovering aluminum from multilayered packaging. The process comprises subjecting multilayered packaging to a reactor with aqueous formic acid, wherein the solution is sonicated using sonic horns. This process allows the recovery of aluminum in its pure metal form. PP/PE components of the multilayered packaging are recovered utilizing density separation, while ink and PET components require further treatment in a toluene reactor which may include sonication.

Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for assessing a plastic container for reuse or recycling. For example, certain embodiments may provide a system that is capable of scanning a tag associated with the plastic container and determining whether to assess the plastic container for suitability for reuse or for recycling based on information scanned from the tag. With respect to recycling specifically, certain embodiments may be capable of assessing the plastic container's suitability for use as an input material to an additive manufacturing process. After assessing the plastic container, the system may perform one or more actions to reuse or recycle the plastic container.