Killing two birds with one stone: plastic bottle recycling

2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:16

Today, plastic packaging is used in almost all areas of public catering and trade. That is why our cities are surrounded by tons of household waste of this type. The whole complexity of this situation lies in the fact that

that, unlike food waste, plastic takes hundreds of years to decompose. One of the best ways is to recycle plastic bottles. The need for this process is felt more and more every year.

Example of foreign countries

Abroad, plastic bottle recycling has long been put on the conveyor. Germany is especially different in this regard. There, it is customary to distribute garbage by type, for each of them there is a specific container. If people decide to throw out household waste all together, without distributing it, they face a serious fine. In Japan, the recycling of a plastic bottle has acquired its own individual characteristics. There, entire islands are being built from this container, on which new areas of Tokyo are being built.

The situation with plastic waste in Russia

In our country, everything is far from being so rosy.

Those recycling plants are busy and unable to destroy all existing plastic. And this despite the fact that this container lends itself well to sorting, so it is quite easy to process it. There is one more fact. Recycling a plastic bottle is quite a profitable business. You can easily build your own small business on this. After all, this niche is empty today, which means there will be no competition. In addition, one more thing attracts: the payback period for the necessary equipment for this process is short. After all, there are more and more such containers every year.

Plastic bottle recycling technology

The whole process consists of 3 stages:

1. Crushing. At this stage, the product is crushed.
2. Agglomeration. In other words, this operation is called sintering. That is, there is a pressing of small pieces of plastic. By the way, at this stage, the former bottles can already be sold as raw materials, ready for further processing.
3. Granulation. The final stage, which allows you to get a homogeneous mass.

And now let's do some simple calculations. A ton of plastic bottles can be purchased today for 1000 rubles.

The output is 800 kg of recycled polymer. And today it is valued quite expensively: 1 ton - about 30,000 rubles. As they say, draw your own conclusions.

Ideas for your own business

Plastic bottle recycling requires different types ofequipment. First of all, it is a conveyor through which raw materials will be fed into the crusher. Then you need a screw loader, which will transport the already crushed substance. After separating foreign materials, such as paper, the plastic is sent to the sink. Here it is completely cleaned and allowed to dry.

The plastic bottle recycling line costs approximately $130,000. It produces 1 ton of recyclables per hour. Workers (8 people are quite enough) only monitor the sorting.

As you can see, the recycling of plastic bottles will help not only clean up our cities from excess garbage, but also get good capital.