There are currently three waste processing processes.
CHEMICAL RECYCLING
The chemical recycling of plastics is currently under study. It is a system that should break the polymer chains and obtain starting monomers from which to start again for a new polymerization process. It allows specific type of plastics to be recycled, those are difficult or uneconomic to recycle mechanically.
THERMAL TREATMENT- cogeneration plants
Another possibility of using this material, especially in those cases where for various reasons it is not possible to make an efficient selection of the different polymerizations, is thermal. It is a process that must be carried out with great care in respect of the environment. While it is possible to obtain a large amount of energy, from another point of view it is necessary that the entire process is carried out in a controlled manner to avoid the emission of pollutants into the environment.
MECHANICAL RECYCLING feasible with BRUNO FOLCIERI mills is that process, currently the most adopted by companies, which consists in the mechanical processing of plastic objects collected as waste, thus making them become raw-secondary material for the production of new objects.
The granulators of the Bruno Folcieri company are totally Made in Italy, they have a high production capacity and are suitable for particularly intensive applications such as grinding heavy bodies, hard fibers, extremely thin films or simply large quantities of material. The great versatility of grinding allows to manage a very wide range of plastic materials both by type and conformation. The peculiarity of the machines is the particularly robust and heavy construction of high mechanical and engineering carpentry.
Mechanical recycling represents one of the possible ways to enhance thermoplastic polymers, it is an enhancement that implies minimum requirements for the workability of the material. The quality of the products obtained will be highly dependent on the quality of the selection made on the recycled product.
Mechanical recycling is an essential component of the circular economy. For plastic waste, mechanical recycling is the preferred recycling solution because it is the most ecologically advantageous, technologically possible and economically attractive.
Benefits
1. Plastic recycling conserves the natural resources and energy needed to produce virgin plastic.
2. When plastic is recycled, less plastic is sent to landfill and therefore less material takes up space in our environment for hundreds of years. 3. Making new products from recycled plastic packaging materials is more than three times more efficient in terms of greenhouse gas emissions than producing those same products with virgin raw materials, mainly due to the energy savings in manufacturing products with content recycled compared to the virgin one.