A system (100) for recovering recycled polyethylene plastic film material is disclosed, comprising a first size reduction station (110) for forming a coarse fraction, a separation station (120) for forming a film fraction, a contaminant removal station (130) for removing non-polyethylene materials from the film fraction, and a baling station (150) for forming a bale (20) of the plastic film material and wrapping the bale in a plastic film. A corresponding method and a bale obtained by such a method are also disclosed.

A method of manufacturing bulked continuous carpet filament that includes providing a polymer melt and separating the polymer melt from the extruder into at least eight streams. The multiple streams are exposed to a chamber pressure within a chamber that is below approximately 25 millibars, or another predetermined pressure. The streams are recombined into a single polymer stream. Polymer from the polymer stream is then formed into bulked continuous carpet filament.

A method of manufacturing bulked continuous carpet filament that includes providing a polymer melt and separating the polymer melt from the extruder into at least eight streams. The multiple streams are exposed to a chamber pressure within a chamber that is below approximately 5 millibars. The streams are recombined into a single polymer stream and formed into bulked continuous carpet filament.

The invention relates to a device for preparing composite material waste, in particular carbon fiber-reinforced waste, comprising a comminuting assembly (2) for the composite material waste, a downstream temperature control zone (3) for controlling the temperature of the comminuted composite material waste, and a forming unit (4) for producing composite material waste compacts. In order to provide companies without recycling facilities, regardless of the type of composite material waste, with a low-cost and environmentally friendly alternative to dumping harmful composite material waste in landfills, it is proposed that the comminuting assembly (2), the temperature control zone (3) and the forming unit (4) are arranged in an at least substantially hermetically sealed and transportable working chamber (1).

The present invention comprises a method of shredding treated medical waste, cleaning it of all traces of biological gunk, and sorting it into separate components for recycling. To clean biological gunk from materials, all materials must be first shredded into small parts to expose the interior. The cleaning is performed by submerging the gunk coated materials into a caustic solution that breaks down and dissolves the gunk off of the materials. The caustic solution may comprise sodium hydroxide, potassium hydroxide, or a similar chemical, which is highly effective in producing a corrosive chemical that can break down blood, bone marrow, urine, unused medication, food waste, organs, tissues and any other biologic materials. After all of the biological material is removed from the cleaned materials, they are sorted into component materials, such as plastics, metals, rubbers, glass, etc.

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.

The present disclosure provides a composite material for use in reducing carbon emission. the composite material comprising (i) at least 40 wt % of heterogenous organic matter out of a total weight of the composite material, said heterogenous organic matter comprising at least cellulose (ii) a plurality of synthetic polymers and (iii) up to 15 wt % inorganic matter; wherein said composite material comprises less than 5 wt % polyethylene terephthalate PET out of the total weight of the composite material: and wherein said composite has a carbon footprint of below about-10Kg CO.sub.2 eq/Kg as determined according to ISO 14040:2006. Also disclosed is an article of manufacture comprising the composite material. method of producing the article of manufacture.

The present invention relates to an improved method and system for reclaiming the individual components of a synthetic or artificial turf product in a form almost similar to their original outset. The result is achieved by a method divided in three sections a first section in which the turf is downsized and dried, a second section where infill, such as rubber and sand, is separated and a third section where grass fiber and backing are separated.

A method for recovering resin from a salvage vehicle is provided that includes the steps of: dismantling the salvage vehicle to obtain a salvage vehicle shell; shredding the salvage vehicle shell to obtain a first shredder dust; air sorting the first shredder dust to obtain first low-specific-gravity dust and first high-specific-gravity dust which is higher specific gravity than the first low-specific-gravity dust; and wet gravitational sorting the first high-specific-gravity dust, in which interior components containing fiber are removed upon dismantling the salvage vehicle, and further including steps of shredding the interior components to obtain second shredder dust; and air sorting the second shredder dust to obtain second low-specific-gravity dust and second high-specific-gravity dust which is higher specific gravity than the second low-specific-gravity dust.

A plastic recycling method for processing plastic waste, including providing a plastic waste mixture stream having, on the one hand, a variable proportion of 2D material and a variable proportion of 3D material and, on the other hand, an inhomogeneous density distribution, the proportions varying over time. Washing both proportions of the plastic waste mixture stream together. Shredding both proportions of the plastic waste mixture stream together while supplying a cleaning fluid. Density-based separation of the plastic waste mixture stream into at least two fractions, wherein the separation is performed as a function of a predeterminable density separation cut; and for at least one of the separated fractions: separating the fraction of 2D material and the fraction of 3D material from each other.