MANUFACTURERS OF PLASTIC RECYCLING EQUIPMENT

Air Svstems/Aspirators/Drvers BSB Recycling GmbH Caner Day Gala Industries Kice Industries Kongskilde Ltd. 

Turnkey Separation Systems Adyanced Recycling Technologies AKW Apparate Verfahrcn GmbH American Recoyery Corp. 

Bruce Mooney Associates Conair Reclaim Technologies Count Recycling Systems, Inc. 

John Brown Inc., Plastics Recycling Systems Kloostemian Enyironmental Equipment Lindemann Recycling Equipment, Inc. 

Mayfran International Miller Manufacturing Mosley Machinery Co. 

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This book summarizes information on plastics recycling based on studies conducted for the state of Illinois. Part I discusses characterization, collection, costs, and markets for mixed plastics recycling. Part li discusses recycling technologies, Including those for processing and separation, buyer specifications, and the manufacture of plastic lumber. Appendices Include lists of scrap plastic handlers and brokers, manufacturers of recycling equipment, and information sources. 

The BSEF said that recycling was the key to future environmental sustainability of many industrial processes and it was necessary for additives manufacturers also to help users of plastics (e.g., makers of electronic equipment) to close the loop . 

The Environment and Plastics Industry Council (EPIC) of Mississauga, ON, and Corporations Supporting Recycling commissioned a study of plastic sorting technologies in 2002. An update to the original study was released in 2005. It reported that the main manufacturers of mass-feed plastic bottle sorting equipment for the North American market... 

IBM has been coding plastic components to promote their recyclability since 1992, when it became the first computer manufacturer to do so. Computer and business equipment companies are also increasing their use of recycled-content resins in production. For example, Kobe Steel Ltd., announced in 1998 that it had developed a practical sandwich technique for applying virgin resin to a core of recovered plastic, which allows increased use of recycled resin. They plan to market the technology to manufacturers of office machines, home electronics, and toiletries. The Japanese unit of IBM is manufacturing some personal computers with about 20% recycled plastic from older IBM PCs. ... 

Until recently 96% of all discarded electrical and electronic equipment in Europe was landfilled. This amounted to about 14 kg of equipment per inhabitant every year, and the practice is now to be banned. All post-consumer electrical and electronic products will have to be collected and subjected to specific disposal procedures. The WEEE Directive (2002/96/EC) (February 2003) requires the manufacturers of electrical and electronic equipment appliances to bear the cost of recovery and recycling. It is intended to ensure the recovery of 300,000 tonnes of electrical and electronic plastics waste material per year by 2006, the date by which each member state should be collecting 4 kg per inhabitant by separate collection procedures. 

There has always been some degree of development, principally by equipment manufacturers, to improve the quality of recycled plastics and make them more competitive with virgin materials. To expand R D, the Center for Plastic Recycling Research, a foundation established in 1984 by the Society of the Plastics Industry (SPI), is making important headway in solving some of the problems that tend to limit the use of reclaimable plastics. In December 1985 this group dedicated an experimental pilot plant at Rutgers University specifically to advance research into plastics recovery and reuse. 

It is important to recognise that domestic and industrial plastics packaging can end up in more than one and in some cases all of the above disposal systems. From which it follows that not only must they be capable of being manufactured in conventional processing equipment, but they should also be mechanically reprocessable and compostable if they are collected for recycling. If they... 

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