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Does the plastic waste need to be pre-sorted or cleaned prior to processing?
No! The plastic waste does not need to pre-sorted or cleaned prior to processing with the Polymer Energy™ system. In fact, one of the key advantages of our system is that the process can tolerate high amounts (up to 30% of the mix) of other contaminants in the input plastics waste stream. As a result, the operator can save on the cost of pre-sorting and cleaning, thus reducing the total cost of operation.
Typically the Polymer Energy™ system can process plastics waste with up to 30% of the following contaminants:
- mineral impurities such as sand, dirt, etc.
- impurities such as glass, small metal parts, etc.
- impurities such as cellulose, clothing, etc.
- water, oil residue
The Polymer Energy™ system is very robust by design and can easily process typical plastic waste such as used agricultural/mulch film, silage wrap and other soiled agricultural plastics, metallized plastics, plastic laminates, printed plastics, wet plastic byproducts and even heavily recycled plastics. The non-plastic contaminants are converted into ash which is automatically removed from the system during the normal cleaning cycle of the system. |
