Plastic recycling is environmentally friendly

Plastic is one of the most popular materials in the world, because thanks to its malleability, affordable price and variety, a wide variety of products for various industries can be made from it. However, the more produced, the more waste is to be expected, and the issue of plastic pollution has been an acute issue for several years now. Naturally, it is difficult to refuse this material, but you can do plastic recycling. After all, a clean environment is the health and happy future of the planet and our children.

Why is plastic waste recycling necessary and can everything be recycled?

The main disadvantage of plastic is the duration of its decomposition, which averages 150-500 years. Therefore, proper plastic recycling helps:

• reduce the amount of waste, because 13 billion plastic bottles are recycled annually;
• save resources;
• increase the market for recycled materials and ensure the subsequent production of new things;
• to make this world cleaner and improve the ecological situation.

There are many types of plastic, which differ in their composition, scope and even the degree of safety for the outside world. Therefore, plastic products are necessarily marked with a triangle, inside of which there is a number indicating the type of plastic. Most of these types are recyclable and can be reused, but it happens that plastic is not suitable for recycling. For example, plastic coffee cups marked with the number 7 are exclusively recyclable. But our company is committed to using exclusively recyclable plastic in its production.

What are the ways to dispose of plastic waste?

Since plastic, as a complex material with a chemical polymer composition, requires special conditions for disposal and processing, this is usually done by specialized factories. Depending on the type of plastic, it can be recycled in a certain way:

• Mechanical recycling of plastics is a classic recycling method that does not require expensive equipment and allows you to create raw materials for recycling.
• Hydrolysis is used less often, since this processing method is quite expensive and time consuming.
• Methanolysis is also an expensive way to dispose of plastic and all raw materials must be thoroughly cleaned when using it.
• But glycolysis is considered almost waste-free and does not require such thorough cleaning of processed raw materials, however, such recyclable materials cannot be used in the food industry.
• Another recycling method is pyrolysis, but this production of recyclable materials releases toxic substances.

Of course, there are other ways – both expensive and less expensive. However, most often in our country, when processing plastics, they resort to recycling plastics – this is both safe and affordable, and allows the use of recycled materials in various fields. At the first stage of plastic recycling, it is sorted and cleaned of contaminants, and then pre-crushed. They are again cleaned and dried, after which they are sent to thermal installations to obtain a homogeneous mass – recyclate. After that, either granules or immediately secondary products are made from the melt through granulation plants.

Plastic – recycling and further use

Recycling one plastic bottle can save as much energy as it takes to run a 60W light bulb for 6 hours. And if you consider that about 13 billion plastic bottles are recycled every year, recycling would help save energy and significantly reduce the level of environmental pollution. In addition, recyclables are actually very functional. From the same recycled plastic, you can make:

• plastic materials – various furniture, stationery, containers for household chemicals, building materials and other household and construction products;
• clothes – and yes, well-known polyester is made from recycled plastic, as well as nylon, organza and even rayon. Moreover, many global brands such as Nike, Adidas, H&M and others from time to time release collections from fabrics created after plastic recycling;
• furniture – chairs, high chairs, kitchen sets and other products are made from recycled materials.

Science does not stand still, new ways of using recycled plastic are regularly developed. Here in Holland, they have developed a technology that allows you to create a road surface from recycled plastic.

Plastic’s Craft is also engaged in plastic recycling in Kharkov and the production of furniture, containers and other products from recycled materials. It is very important for us not only to provide our customers with high-quality, safe and durable goods, but we also do everything possible so that our children have the opportunity to live on a clean planet. Therefore, we use plastic, which can be recycled.