I guess most of you once played such a game for fun when you were a kid, that is to see how many bubbles you could pop in the protective unwrapping packages. Obviously few of you would think about the material of the bubble wrap, let alone whether it could be recycled.
Bubble Wrap is made of low-density polyethylene, or #4 plastic for those familiar with the plastic resins. Besides, The polyethylene is also used for thin plastic bags, or polyethylene foam as packaging materials to prevent some products from breaking down.
As the polyethylene foam materials are in growing needs of packaging and energy absorption, polyethylene foam recycling is also a hot topic among industries, although the conventional practice is still to sent them to the landfill as waste.
When it comes to polyethylene foam recycling, economic transportation may become one of the major issues. Under that circumstances, GREENMAX from INTCO recycling must be mentioned.
While similar to polystyrene recycling, the polyethylene foam recycling have distinct differences. Admittedly, the compacting equipment is necessary for economic recycling of foam materials, but different from EPS recycling, the polyethylene foam will need a way for the materials to remain compressed after processing because of the high memory of these particular materials. Thus, GREENMAX produced compact and hot melt machines to specially recycle polyethylene foam.
A professional screw drive compactor named ZEUS series designed by GREENMAX can dispose the polyethylene foam through crushing the waste PE foam by the bearing and blades as much as possible. Although the machine will compact the waste PE foam under heavy pressure, a layer of hot melt film is formed necessarily on the surface, which can effectively prevent the formation of its rebound.
Another specialized machine named MARS series can function as thermal densifier. The hot melting machine can crush the waste PE foam into pieces. After a process of shredding, heat melting and extruding and molding, the waste PE foam becomes densified ingots, could save storage space and transportation costs.
If you want to join in polyethylene foam recycling, welcome to leave your comments and know more about GREENMAX.