Markets in Primary Recycling

Plastic users have made a market for recycled plastic by modifying machinery for two and three layer coextrusion heads. Coextrusion is a method applied primarily to HDPE and sandwiches a recycled plastic layer in between virgin resins. It is used because it produces a uniform appearance of bottle exteriors and a market safe container. Coinjection stretch blow molding of PET is another fabrication method being looked at. It is capable of producing multi-layer bottles with recycle PET sandwiched in between. Examples of 

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