A waste management system for plastic or other material floating on the surface and in the subsurface of a body of water. A shredding device will reduce the size of the particles of waste. Ocean water is removed by a drying device. The dried waste material is frozen to a temperature at or below minus fifty degrees Fahrenheit, using liquid nitrogen or other suitable means. The frozen waste material is then pulverized and ground into a powder. The powder may then be sprayed into a gas-filled chamber and heated. Temperature, pressure and humidity are maintained within the chamber for more than one minute. Microwave or other radiation and catalysts may be used to enhance the process of extraction. The processed material is then removed from the chamber. Carbon may be recycled or used as fuel by the ship. Water may be used by the ship or returned to the ocean.

The present invention relates to an apparatus (100) for extracting toner from a toner cartridge comprising an inlet opening (1), a first outlet opening (2) for discharging toner, and a second outlet opening (3) for discharging toner cartridges. The apparatus (100) also comprises: a toner cartridge opening device (10) configured to break a toner cartridge so that the toner may be removed from inside said toner cartridge; a separating device (20) connected to said opening device (10) for receiving broken toner cartridges from said opening device, and configured to separate toner from a respective toner cartridge broken by said opening device (10), said separating device (20) being further configured to separately convey the broken toner cartridge to said second outlet opening (3) and toner separated from said broken toner cartridge to said first outlet opening (2).

The invention relates to thermoplastic molding compositions (T) comprising 10 to 99% by weight, based on the total weight of the molding composition (T), of at least one type of recycled polymer material (A), containing 20 to 100% by weight, based on recycled material (A), of recycled acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene copolymer (A1); up to 80% by weight of at least one recycled styrene-acrylonitrile copolymer (A2); up to 10% by weight of recycled polymeric impurities (A3), different from (A1) and (A2); 0.1 to 30% by weight, based on the total weight of the molding composition (T), of at least one graft copolymer (B), different from (A); 0.1 to 18% by weight, based on the molding composition (T), of block copolymer (C); and optionally up to 89.8% by weight of further polymer component (D), different from (A), (B) and (C); optionally up to 30% by weight of filler and/or reinforcing agent (E); and optionally up to 30% by weight of further additive (F).

The invention relates to a process for devulcanizing a vulcanized rubber mixture, comprising the following steps: A) providing or producing a vulcanized rubber mixture, B) comminuting the vulcanized rubber mixture to a granular material composed of vulcanized rubber particles, where the vulcanized rubber particles have a maximum particle diameter of 100 mm, C) extruding the vulcanized rubber particles produced in step B) in a twin-screw extruder at a shear rate of less than 100 s.sup.−1, where the temperature of the vulcanized rubber particles during extrusion is less than 200° C., to give a devulcanized rubber mixture having a temperature above 100° C., D) cooling the devulcanized rubber mixture in a further kneading unit, so as to give a devulcanized rubber mixture having a temperature in the range from 50° C. to 100° C. The invention further relates to an apparatus for performing the process and to the use of the apparatus for devulcanization of a vulcanized rubber mixture.

Provided is a method of recycling an additively manufactured object into a reusable thermoplastic polymer, which method in some embodiments may include: (a) providing at least one additively manufactured object produced by stereolithography from a dual cure resin, the object comprising (i) a light polymerized polymer, and (ii) a heat polymerized polymer intermixed with said light polymerized polymer; (b) comminuting the object to produce a particulate material therefrom; (c) contacting the particulate material to a polar, aprotic solvent for a time and at a temperature sufficient to extract the heat polymerized polymer from the particulate material into said solvent, leaving residual particulate material comprising said light polymerized polymer in solid form; (d) separating the residual particulate material from said solvent; and then (e) separating the heat polymerized polymer from said solvent to provide a reusable thermoplastic polymer material in solid form.

Methods and apparatus are provided for the separation of a feedstock stream comprising a principle component and at least one secondary component such that at least one component has greater friability that the others using a rotary impact separator. The methods allow the recovery of two or more streams, one rich in the more friable component, and one lean in the more friable component.

A separation system suitable for separating a dry or dried infill preferably including rubber and/or sand, into a plurality of fractions, the separation system includes a first screening means configured to receive a first set of separation screens said set of separation screens being configured to separate infill into a first plurality of fractions, wherein the separation system further includes a pre-analysis unit, a database and a processing unit configured to calculate correlation coefficients and/or deviation values between the first set of composition values and a plurality of second sets of composition values of the database; and a method for separating a dry or dried infill having a composition of materials, preferably including rubber and sand, into a plurality of fractions.

Processes and facilities for using one or more PET-containing materials as a feedstock to a chemical recycling facility, and in particular a solvolysis facility, are provided herein. The PET-containing materials used as feedstock may comprise a quantity of PET-containing dry fines. The PET-containing dry fines may be derived from various processes and facilities, including PET reclaimer facilities and/or manufacturers of PET articles. For example, the dry fines may be collected from solid-liquid separators and/or dust collectors from processes that include conveying, drying, densification, centrifugation processes, and/or grinding PET-containing plastic material. Such dry fines are generally undesirable or unusable to mechanical PET recycling facilities, and typically are sent to landfills and/or incinerators. However, the processes and facilities described herein make use of the PET and other plastics present in these otherwise undesirable or unusable dry fines.

The present invention provides an apparatus for recycling composite material and a method for recycling composite material by using same, the apparatus including: a mixing tank in which pulverized products of fiber-reinforced waste plastic are dispersed and mixed in water together with a filler, thereby forming a composite material mixture; a fixing agent addition part for forming a recyclable material by supplying, to the composite material mixture, a fixing agent that aggregates the pulverized products of the fiber-reinforced waste plastic and the filler; and a filtering tank in which the recyclable material is supplied such that a recyclable composite sheet is formed.

Embodiments of the present invention may provide methods and systems for recycling asphalt shingles (1) perhaps in a chemical solution (2) to provide oil free recyclable fiberglass (6), oil free recyclable sand (7), and even recyclable oil (8). The present invention may provide a screened tubular rotating equipment (16) may be at least partially immersed (18) in a tank (17) of a chemical solution (2) to treat the asphalt shingles (1).