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How to Recycle Woven Polypropylene Feed Bags Efficiently?
Woven polypropylene (PP) feed bags are a common type of packaging material for animal feeds and other agricultural products due to their strong, durable, and lightweight features. These packaging materials are indeed one of the applications of PP woven bags that can be recycled. Recycling post-consumer waste and post-industrial production scraps is an important way to reduce waste, conserve resources, and save various costs.
In this blog, we will mention the process of woven polypropylene feed bags and highlight the appropriate plastic pelletizers that can be used to produce highly reusable recycled PP plastic pellets.
Benefits of Recycling Woven Polypropylene Feed Bags
Recycling woven polypropylene feed bags offers a range of environmental and economic advantages. By properly recycling these bags, we can create a more sustainable future. Let's explore the four key benefits of recycling woven polypropylene feed bags:
- Reduces waste and pollution
- Conserves resources by generating recycled PP plastics
- Saves energy compared to manufacturing virgin polymers
- Creates a circular economy by reusing plastics
How to Convert Woven Feed Bags to Recycled Polypropylene?
(Defected woven polypropylene feed bag production scraps)
1. Post-industrial Production Scraps of Woven Polypropylene Feed Bags
During the production process of PP woven feed bags, there are several types of waste generated due to manufacturing defects or errors from plastic tape lines, circular looms, and printers. After recycling properly, these scraps can be reused in the same line as recycled polypropylene, since they have the same formula with the production content.
💡 How to Recycle Post-industrial Woven Polypropylene Feed Bag Scraps
Stiff texture of the PP woven feed bags (as with many other PP woven bags) requires manufacturers to use a shredder to crush them before the recycling extruder. In the classic methods to recycle woven polypropylene feed bags, these steps are labor intensive and require more factory space and time.
Repro-One Shredder Integrated Plastic Pelletizer combines shredding, extrusion, and pelletizing steps into a single recycling machine. The integrated shredder, on the other hand, works at a low processing temperature to ensure minimal material degradation when recycling woven polypropylene feed bags. The capability of this line to process a variety of unprinted and printed woven polypropylene bags and lumps is approved by many PP raffia and woven bag manufacturers.
- Explore how Repro-One works – Machine Information
(Crushed and washed woven polypropylene feed bag waste)
2. Post-consumer Waste of Woven Polypropylene Feed Bags
During the production process of PP woven feed bags, there are several types of waste generated. When woven polypropylene feed bags reach the end of their primary use, they unfortunately often end up in landfills and cause environmental problems. Indeed, the polypropylene polymer obtained from recycled woven polypropylene feed bags post-consumer materials can be reused as recycled material in different plastic production areas.
💡 How to Recycle Post-consumer Woven Polypropylene Feed Bag Wastes
Post-consumer wastes from recycled woven polypropylene feed bag must be pre-crushed and pre-washed before the recycling step. POLYSTAR suggests Repro-Flex Plus two-stage plastic pelletizer to recycle woven polypropylene feed bags post-consumer materials.
This one-step two-stage pelletizer provides an enhanced triple degassing unit and two filtration unit features along with stable feeding with a cutter compactor integrated, which all together ensures increasing reusability of the recycled polypropylene pellets.
- Explore how Repro-Flex Plus works – Machine Information
Conclusion
In conclusion, recycling woven polypropylene feed bags properly helps to fulfill the recycled PP polymer needs of the industry. Moreover, it promotes sustainability and reduces plastic pollution while conserving resources, energy, and costs. Today contact POLYSTAR to learn more about our woven polypropylene recycling machine solutions.
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Resul Gökpınar
International SalesResul creates up-to-date content based on his experience, gained by solving customers' problems in Turkey and the EMEA market.