01. Preperation
02. Size reduction
03. Blending

How we work

Recycling bank holding are well established group of companies operating in the corporate waste management and plastic recycling arena, the group has set ups in
Uk – Sri Lanka – Dubai – India

Plastic recycling process

Recycling bank group has several plastic recycling facilities and recycling partners across in many continents.

Rbl buys plastic waste for recycling and below is the description of some of the most common plastic recycling process.

»Preparation

Plastic scrap or waste comes in all manner of shapes and size such as plastic bottles, bottle crates, plastic pallets and car bumpers and a variety of material types. Often these plastic materials are not compatible with each other when it comes to reycling so they have to be identified and separated.

It is also necessary to strip off any (paticularly if the plastic waste comes from packaging application such as plastic milk bottles)

»Size reduction

Before the plastic waste can be melted down and recycled into plastic pellets for moulding into new products it must be reduced in size. At its most basic this is a case of sawing large items of scrap so that they will fit down the throat of the granulation machines.

Shredding is a much mmore efficient way of reducing the size of large scrap plastic items. A shredder basically consists of alarge tank that the scrap is fed into, aty the botom of which are heavy duty rotating blades which quite literally rip the plastic to shreds.

The output of the shreeding process is irregular sized strips of plastic which will be up to several inches in length.

Finally comes granulation,granulation is probably the most common form of plastic recycling and there are many granulatiuion companies dotted around the united kingdom.

The process again involves a set of rotating blades,but unlike shredding the granulation process chips the plastic scrap. Grids can also be used with the granulation machines to control the size of the resulting regrind. Typically plastic regrind has a diameter of about 10mm which is deal for the compounding process.

»Blending

Blending is simply the process of creating a homogenous batch of plastic and can be used at various stages of the plastic recycling process. Material may be blended on arrival at our recycling facilites to aid with testing of the plastic. Many polymer types are incompatible and therefore we need to ensure that incoming batches are not contaminated with different polymers types.