Today, in almost all areas of catering and trade, plastic packaging is used. That is why our cities are surrounded by tons of household waste of this type. The whole difficulty of this situation lies in the fact
which, unlike food waste, plastic decomposes for hundreds of years. One of the best solutions is
recycling a plastic bottle. The need for this process is felt more and more every year.
Foreign countries example
Overseas plastic bottle recycling has long been put on the conveyor. Germany is particularly different in this regard. It is customary to distribute garbage there by type, for each of them there is a specific container. If people decide to throw out household waste together, without distributing them, they face a serious fine. In Japan, plastic bottle recycling has acquired its individual characteristics. Entire islands are built from this container, on which new areas of Tokyo are being built .
The situation with plastic trash in Russia
In our country, everything is far from so rosy.
Those factories that are engaged in processing are loaded, and are not able to destroy all existing plastic. And this despite the fact that this container lends itself well to sorting, so it is easy to process it. There is one more fact. Recycling a plastic bottle is a fairly profitable activity. On this you can easily build your own small business. Indeed, this niche is empty today, which means there will be no competition. In addition, it attracts one more thing:
the payback periods for the necessary equipment for this process are short. Indeed, such containers are more and more every year.
Plastic bottle recycling technology
The whole process consists of 3 stages:
- Splitting up. At this stage, the product is ground.
- Agglomeration. In other words, this operation is called sintering. That is, small pieces of plastic are pressed. By the way, at this stage, former bottles can already be sold as raw materials, ready for further processing.
- Granulation. The final stage, which allows you to get a homogeneous mass.
And now we will make simple calculations. A ton of plastic bottles can be purchased today for 1000 rubles.
The output is 800 kg of secondary polymer. And it is valued today quite expensively: 1 ton - about 30,000 rubles. As they say, draw your own conclusions.
Ideas for your own business
Recycling a plastic bottle requires various types of equipment. First of all, this is a conveyor through which raw materials will be fed to the crusher. Then you need a screw loader, which will transport the already crushed substance. After separation of foreign materials, such as paper, plastic is sent to the sink. Here it is completely cleaned and allowed to dry.
A plastic bottle recycling line costs about 130 thousand dollars. It produces 1 ton of recyclable materials per hour. Workers (quite enough 8 people) monitor only sorting.
As you can see, recycling plastic bottles will help not only clean our cities of excess garbage, but also get good capital.