A method produces a shaped body from plastic waste and thermoplastic material including natural fiber components or thermoplastic material and natural fibers. Plastic waste and thermoplastic plastic including natural fiber components or thermoplastic plastic and natural fibers are introduced into a mixing device. The introduced materials are subsequently mixed in such a way that the materials are comminuted and at least partially melted, so that a substantially moldable base material is available after mixing. This at least partially melted base material is transferred into a mold for shaping the shaped body.

A method of separating plastic material from battery materials can include: a) receiving battery materials in an immersion comminuting apparatus; b) by carrying out at least a first size reduction of the battery materials under immersion to create a primary-reduced metal material, primary-reduced plastic material and liberating a first amount of a black mass material; c) extracting at least a primary plastics slurry from the primary comminuting apparatus, wherein the primary plastics slurry comprises a mixture of the primary-reduced plastic material, a portion of the primary-reduced metal material and a portion of the black mass material liberated by the immersion comminuting apparatus; and d) carrying out a further, second size reduction of the plastic slurry using a non-immersion comminuting apparatus that is downstream from the immersion comminuting apparatus.

Filter material, mainly in form of industrial remnants from the production of the filter fillings, is processed without the intake of the heat in such a way that it is cut in the disintegrator (4) at the presence of the air, where the material is during retention time repeatedly led to the contact with the rotating blades and bunches emerge in the disintegrator (4) through aeration. The flat carrier (3) is thus at least partially disintegrated to the original fibers (1); the released fibers (1) intertwine into bunches and the active carbon (2) is released from the original bond with the flat carrier (3). The swirl (vortex) created inside the disintegrator (4) carries the dust particles of the active carbon (2) and they adhere to the surface of the fibers (1). Part of the released active carbon (2) isafter the separationcarried away from the emergin bunches, which in the lower part of the disintegrator (4) run through the sieve out of the disintegrator (4). The resulting product is advantageously applicable as heat and noise isolation in all fields of technology, for example construction. The separated active carbon (2) in form of granules is also a resulting product of processing.

Fibrous materials, compositions that include fibrous materials, and uses of the fibrous materials and compositions are disclosed. For example, the fibrous materials can be operated on by a microorganism to produce ethanol or a by-product, such as a protein or lignin.

A method of forming a mesh from thermoplastic material includes the steps of: providing an apparatus comprising a shredder and a binding station, urging thermoplastic material through the shredder to from strips of shredded material, and then transferring the shredded thermoplastic material through the binding station to form a more integral mesh formation from the shredded thermoplastic material. Such mesh material can be used for a variety of applications such as cushioning or the like.

A plastic-dedicated shredder according to the present invention includes at least a hopper, a shredder housing located below the hopper, and a base to which the shredder housing is fixed. The shredder housing includes at least a lower hosing and an upper housing that can open and close. The shredder housing includes a rotation blade support. A rotation blade is fixed to the lower housing and arranged in a shredding chamber of the rotation blade support. The rotation blade support includes a blade support main body and a blade support segment that are separable from each other. The blade support segment is configured to be movable relative to the blade support main body to open and close the shredding chamber. In the present invention, the rotation blade support is divided into two parts, the blade support main body and the blade support segment. When cleaning the shredding chamber, the blade support segment is moved to open the shredding chamber of the rotation blade support and thoroughly clean and remove residues from the shredding chamber.

The method for shredding and recycling used big-bags, having a continuous internal bag of polyethylene and an external outer of polypropylene, includes: compacting at least one big-bag to a thickness of less than 20 cm; conveying the compacted big-bag(s) to a shredding unit; shredding at least one compacted big-bag at the shredding unit, between 100 and 1000 cuts/m being performed on the compacted big-bag(s) to obtain strips of the PE outer and fragments of the PP outer; separating the PE strips from the PP fragments to obtain a first fraction of PP fragments and a second fraction of PE strips: applying a second shredding of the polyethylene strips; cleaning the two fractions; feeding first and second extruders respectively with the cleaned first fraction to obtain PP granules and with the cleaned second fraction to obtain PE granules.

A method for recycling containers, including the following steps (1) to (4): a collecting step (1) of collecting containers, each of which is made of a sheet material including a plurality of layered film layers including a first resin film layer and a second resin film layer, is formed into a bag by attaching at least a part of a periphery of the sheet material to form a containing region for accommodating a content inside the second resin film layer, and includes, between the first resin film layer and the second resin film layer, a film attached portion and a filler enclosed portion; a shredding and washing step (2) of shredding the containers to obtain shreds, and washing the shreds; a recycled resin forming step (3) of forming a recycled resin by using the shreds; and a sheet material forming step (4) of forming at least a part of the sheet material by using the recycled resin.

A treatment method for EVA waste materials includes the following steps: step 1: crushing waste EVA shoe soles, waste EVA sheets, and waste EVA trimmings to obtain block-shaped crushed materials with a length of less than 7 cm and a width of less than 5 cm; then, putting the block-shaped crushed materials into a waste crusher to obtain strip-shaped crushed materials; step 2: putting the strip-shaped crushed materials obtained in step 1, Surlyn resin, and PMP into an internal mixer in a weight ratio of 85:(4-10):(4-8), wherein an internal mixing temperature gradually rises, a highest temperature of the internal mixing temperature is 150 C., and an internal mixing time is 18 to 25 minutes, so as to obtain block-shaped mixed materials; and step 3: processing the block-shaped mixed materials, which have been subjected to internal mixing by a screw extruder and an open mill to obtain an EVA recycled film.

A method of separating plastic material from battery materials can include: a) receiving battery materials in an immersion comminuting apparatus; b) by carrying out at least a first size reduction of the battery materials under immersion to create a primary-reduced metal material, primary-reduced plastic material and liberating a first amount of a black mass material; c) extracting at least a primary plastics slurry from the primary comminuting apparatus, wherein the primary plastics slurry comprises a mixture of the primary-reduced plastic material, a portion of the primary-reduced metal material and a portion of the black mass material liberated by the immersion comminuting apparatus; and d) carrying out a further, second size reduction of the plastic slurry using a non-immersion comminuting apparatus that is downstream from the immersion comminuting apparatus.