Postconsumer recycle products applications

Recycling or reuse can take two forms preconsumer and postconsumer applications. Preconsumer recycling involves raw materials, products, and by-products that have not reached a consumer for an intended end use but are typically reused within an original process. Postconsumer recycled materials are those that have served their intended end use by a business, consumer, or institutional source and have been separated from municipal solid waste for the purpose of recycling. 

Over 4 billion PETP bottles will be available for colleetion across Europe in 1999. PUR Products has introduced technology into the UK which involves glycolysis of postconsumer PETP into materials for the manufacture of rigid urethane foams for building insulation. This application offers a substantial new market for aromatic polyester polyols derived from glycolised PETP recyclate. PUR(PRODUCTS)LTD. 

OLR has proved feasible in the fashion context, both in collection of pre- and postconsumer textile waste for use in other products, and in collection of used bottles for recycling into textiles. Garments are suitable as a feedstock for products of lesser value, for example carpet underlay or insulation, with many applications possible. However, the varieties of fibre types and colours mean that the resulting shoddy is in unattractive greys or blacks that are unsuitable for spinning into apparel-quality yam. The wide variety of products that utilise pre-consumer textile waste and even post-consumer textile waste demonstrates that the recycling of textiles works when entering product streams of lesser value. 

The paper product consumption is the core of the chain. After utilization of a paper product by the consumer the paper product becomes wastepaper or postconsumer paper which is a quaternary fjtoresoMrce.Wastepapers from newsprint, books, and packaging materials can be collected and recycled. However, some of the paper products cannot be recovered for recycling. Hygienic papers such as toilet papers are disposed in toilets or papers for technical applications are long-term bonded in a technical product. Around 20% of wastepaper is not available for recycling regarding Ref. 67. 

Primary recycling The recovered plastic is used in products with performance characteristics that are equivalent to those made using virgin plastics. Ideally, closed-loop recycling takes the recovered material and uses it back in the original application. An example of primary recycling is where PET recovered from postconsumer bottles is used in the production of new bottles. 

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