Plastic Film Recycling Workflow
From Open Source Ecology
Basics
- Plastic Films can be hard to recycle with standard workflows due to their flexibility, and how some are metal coated and/or multimaterial
- This page shows a way to reduce the usual issues
- It can be recycled in conventional methods, but that typically causes long term maitnence issues
Single Material Films
Densification
- Small scale:
- Hand Iron Bags into a Block/Solid Sheet
- This can be used as is/pressed and used if sheets are desired
- Then Shred the Sheet and use usual workflows
- Medium Scale
Metal Coated Films
- Follow the Above Steps First
- THEN immerse in an acid for that specific metal/metals
- Can use a dedicated reactor, or a stirred vessel such as a plastic bucket
- Continue this until all metal is removed
- Then Remove From Acid, and Wash
- Metal is Recovered Via Precipitation or Electroplating
- Plastic is washed, dried, and then usable
Multiple Plastic Layer Films
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