An absorptive article quick decomposition system and operating method thereof is provided. The absorptive article quick decomposition system is mainly constructed by a cutting separating module, a liquid proof reclaimed material filtering module, a recycling module, a salt slurry processing module, a plastic raw material manufacturing module, a hygroscopic raw material manufacturing module, and a fluff fiber raw material manufacturing module. The absorptive article quick decomposition system and operating method make the recycled absorbent articles become possible to be decomposed into plastic raw materials, hygroscopic raw materials and fluff fiber raw materials. In addition, organic pollutants on absorbent articles are decomposed. The purified and treated water thus recovered and the recycling is realized for good.

The present invention relates to an equipment in the field of hygiene article manufacturing, in particular to a hygiene article recycling unit for disintegrating and separating hygiene articles allowing to separate raw materials at a purity allowing to directly use it in the manufacturing process of the hygiene articles. The recycling unit comprised several devices as sub-units. The present invention further relates to a process for operating such an equipment.

The present invention relates to a method for treatment of polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) containing post-consumer product, the method comprising contacting a post-consumer product with a polypeptide that can catalyze degradation of the PHA, the contact taking place at a temperature at least 45 C. In a specific embodiment, the poly peptide is a wild-type PHA depolymerase expressed by a thermophilic microorganism or a modified PHA depolymerase that includes one or more single-site mutations as compared to the wild-type PHA depolymerase. In another specific embodiment, the polypeptide comprising a modified poly hydroxy butyrate (PHB) depolymerase comprising one or more single-site mutations as compared to SEQ ID NO: 1, and the modified PHB depolymerase having an optimum temperature of at least 45 C. The present invention also relates to a host cell transformed to express a polypeptide that catalyzes degradation of a PHA, the polypeptide having an optimum temperature for the degradation reaction of at least 45 C., wherein the host cell is selected from an E. coli cell or a thermophilic microorganism.