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Not to start an argument but I have seen and used plastic recycling to make new parts.
Yes, you must separate compatible plastics together:
1) flexible "bottle" PVC, not soda bottles which is very high quality crystal polycarbonate or similar but plain shampoo/alcohol/detergent/ketchup/mustard etc. , the kind which is usually translucent or dyed, and is flexible so you can squeeze the bottle, is *easy* to recycle.
Original plastic comes in rice grain sized (and similar looking) balls, a couple mm diameter, which goes into the injecting machine, molten and mixed with a spiral screw.
Recycled is the same, but instead of original grains you use shredded bottles and such.
Colour is not uniform and parts are weaker, but perfectly useful for non critical parts.
Weak on the traction but quite usable on compression.
2) the classic hard plastic , such as used in plastic forks, spoons and knives, knobs, and in general when we think the word "plastic" , can also be crushed in mills to small "scales" for two purposes: first to mix it in rotating drums to achieve at least *some* homogeneity, at least based on Statistics, and second to be able to feed the injecting machines.
Parts come out in a typical "marbleized" colour reflecting the dissimilar City Thrash quality of "prime materials" , althoug funnily enough different colours tend to mix into a greyish greenish tinted colour.
Why? ... I don't know.
Very common here but I suspect also on many other parts of the World .
FWIW our last President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and her Party members , who left the power in October, stole the last remaining Dollars so no imported stuff is getting into Argentina, including virgin plastic pellets, so plastic parts makers are buying and using all the recycled plastic they can get their hands on.
Guess what: NEW wire bobbins are coming out in that greenish marbleized colour, guess why
And my custom aluminum sheet maker is buying tons (literally) of aluminum soda cans, old pots and pans, junked aluminum windows and doors, etc, and I can pay him with my aluminum scrap.
Can also pay the copper wire maker with old burnt transformers, electric motors, solenoids, odd pieces of gas or gasoline copper tube, etc.
So my new Law might be:"there's nothing which pushes recycling forward as a good balance of payment crisis"
Yes, you must separate compatible plastics together:
1) flexible "bottle" PVC, not soda bottles which is very high quality crystal polycarbonate or similar but plain shampoo/alcohol/detergent/ketchup/mustard etc. , the kind which is usually translucent or dyed, and is flexible so you can squeeze the bottle, is *easy* to recycle.
Original plastic comes in rice grain sized (and similar looking) balls, a couple mm diameter, which goes into the injecting machine, molten and mixed with a spiral screw.
Recycled is the same, but instead of original grains you use shredded bottles and such.
Colour is not uniform and parts are weaker, but perfectly useful for non critical parts.
Weak on the traction but quite usable on compression.
2) the classic hard plastic , such as used in plastic forks, spoons and knives, knobs, and in general when we think the word "plastic" , can also be crushed in mills to small "scales" for two purposes: first to mix it in rotating drums to achieve at least *some* homogeneity, at least based on Statistics, and second to be able to feed the injecting machines.
Parts come out in a typical "marbleized" colour reflecting the dissimilar City Thrash quality of "prime materials" , althoug funnily enough different colours tend to mix into a greyish greenish tinted colour.
Why? ... I don't know.
Very common here but I suspect also on many other parts of the World .
FWIW our last President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and her Party members , who left the power in October, stole the last remaining Dollars so no imported stuff is getting into Argentina, including virgin plastic pellets, so plastic parts makers are buying and using all the recycled plastic they can get their hands on.
Guess what: NEW wire bobbins are coming out in that greenish marbleized colour, guess why
And my custom aluminum sheet maker is buying tons (literally) of aluminum soda cans, old pots and pans, junked aluminum windows and doors, etc, and I can pay him with my aluminum scrap.
Can also pay the copper wire maker with old burnt transformers, electric motors, solenoids, odd pieces of gas or gasoline copper tube, etc.
So my new Law might be:"there's nothing which pushes recycling forward as a good balance of payment crisis"
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