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Subject:
plastics
Category: Science Asked by: mikeiii-ga List Price: $5.00 |
Posted:
09 Feb 2005 11:37 PST
Expires: 11 Mar 2005 11:37 PST Question ID: 471843 |
How do you reconstituite milk jugs back into a liquid form for molding? |
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Subject:
Re: plastics
Answered By: hedgie-ga on 10 Feb 2005 16:53 PST |
There are different kinds of plastics. Some melt at high temperature, some are ground into a powder and processed with chemicals. It is not something which you can do at home: "Chemical or feedstock recycling Feedstock recycling describes a range of plastic recovery techniques to make plastics, which break down polymers into their constituent monomers, which in turn can be used again in refineries, or petrochemical and chemical production. A range of feedstock recycling technologies is currently being explored. These include: pyrolysis, hydrogenation, gasification and thermal cracking. Feedstock recycling has a greater flexibility over composition and is more tolerant to impurities than mechanical recycling, although it is capital intensive and requires very large quantities of used plastic for reprocessing to be economically viable (e.g. 50,000 tonnes per year)..." http://www.wasteonline.org.uk/resources/InformationSheets/Plastics.htm For more technical details, see http://www.chemtec.org/books/rap/rap_142.html Milk jugs are usually made of HDPE Specifics of that preces are described here http://www.ctmetal.com/plastic.htm |
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Re: plastics
From: spookysr-ga on 09 Feb 2005 12:19 PST |
Its my understanding the reprocessing plastic containers back into new plastic containers is not effecient nor profitable for manufacturers. If you remove labels, chip the bottles into a fine dust, and expose to heat to melt them, it still may release dangerous toxins to the furnace operators. Also the glue like melted substance would make a discolored inferior final product. I believe they do, however, reprocess the platic into artifical lumber products as filler. If you check your local landfill you'll probably see that there is no big rush to reprocess plastic milk jugs. They make better bird and squirrel feeders, funnels, and lobster-pot floats for fishermen. But if your serious about doing this check out this Connecticut company that is doing it and sells equipment to do it: http://actioninternationalinc.com/ |
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