How to recycle waste plastic bottles?

 Pet plastic bottles are the most widely used beverage packaging. In addition to the daily packaging of carbonated beverages, fruit juices, tea beverages, etc., they are also widely used in many fields such as food, medicine, and chemical industry. Used plastic bottles are at risk of being discarded and can have a significant impact on the environment if not disposed of properly. How to recycle these pet plastic bottles after they are discarded?

How to Recycle Plastic Bottles

 

It generally uses a PET bottle washing line to recycle plastic bottles. First, the plastic bottles are sorted according to different materials, and the sundries are removed; secondly, the sorted plastic bottles of the same type are put into the soaking tank, and the labels on the bottles are softened and removed by the soaking liquid; then, the labels are removed The finished plastic bottle is put into the shredder for pulverization; again, the plastic bottle fragments are sent to the air separation equipment, and the remaining label fragments in the plastic bottle fragments are removed by blowing air; then, the plastic bottle fragments are sent into the separation pool, according to The densities of the bottle body and the bottle cap are different, and the bottle body fragments and the bottle cap fragments are separated by the separation liquid; finally, the bottle body fragments obtained after separation are subjected to cooking disinfection and drying treatment.

 

Recycled plastic products

After the recycled plastic bottles are initially sorted, the severely polluted bottles will be picked out, and the qualified bottles will be sent to the recycling factory for re-sorting according to color. Among them, labels, bottle caps, and bottle bodies will be treated separately, and labels will be centrally processed because they cannot be regenerated; bottle caps can be processed into floor mats, handles, etc.; bottle bodies are generally smashed into pieces, which are disinfected and decontaminated After the treatment, the recycled polyester chips of the size of rice grains are melted and granulated. These slices can be used to make new bottles, and they can also be brushed to make clothes, cloth bags, and more. Discarded pet plastic bottles are processed and reprocessed. In addition to making pet plastic bottles, they can also be used to make sleeping bags, pillows, car wheel covers, etc. The consumption of pet plastic bottles in my country is very high, and pet plastic bottles can be reprocessed and turned waste into treasure, which not only solves the problem of insufficient pet raw materials in China but also reduces environmental pollution and resource waste. Its recycling technology has very broad prospects.