 | A large variety of materials fall into
the category of plastics. These versatile materials have found their way
into almost every aspect of daily life. Often described as durable
materials they unfortunately spend the majority of their long life in a
land fill. |
 | In 1998 the EPA found that over 21
million tons of plastics headed for land fills. They also estimated that
only 5.2% of these materials were diverted for recycling that year. Why is
this when
a large percentage of these materials are considered recyclable? |
 | The downfall of most recycling programs
is that the materials were diverted for use in traditional plastic
processing. This required separation, cleaning, removal of ink and labels,
and other cost prohibitive operations that cause the price of these recovered
materials to approach that of virgin resins. In addition some
material groups such as thermo sets, co extrusions, and highly commingled
or mixed plastics were labeled as un-recyclable. |
 | This was the past, so what is the
future of plastic recycling? ReSyk Inc., a Utah corporation has developed
and patented non-traditional processes and equipment that allows virtually
any waste plastic to be economically recycled into useful composites for
nearly endless recycled content product applications. The main advantage
is that materials need no separation, cleaning, or pre-processing other
than size reduction into chips or flakes. Commingled, mixed, contaminated,
thermo set, co extruded plastic materials can all be used as feed stock.
Products can be produced of 100% waste plastics or even include a high
percentage of wood, paper, cloth, dirt, or non-ferrous metals and need no
virgin materials to form durable composites. They have yet to find a waste
stream that could not be processed into a profitable product. |
 | Designers can now engineer cost
competitive products with more material and strength then previously
possible. By targeting these waste streams that
would be designated for costly disposal in a land fill manufactures can
often obtain feed stock for free or even get paid to except materials.
This allows heavy, solid, and durable recycled content products to be
produced economically without concern for material cost.
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 | This is truly Commingled Plastic
Recycling and Molding! |
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