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LDPE Film Recycling

LDPE Film Recycling

LDPE is a thermoplastic created from the monomer ethylene. It’s an adaptable and commonly used polymer to create various consumer, commercial, and industrial products

As the name suggests, LDPE differs from HDPE as it has a lower density. It’s not as strong but is thinner, more malleable, has greater transparency, and has a lower melting point Rigid and soft LDPE plastics are normally separated before recycling. Soft LDPE film is often sorted by grade to ensure high-quality material output. You can store all types of LDPE and other plastic waste together on site though, as it will be sorted at the recycling centre before processing..

The general process to recycle LDPE involves:

Sorting – once waste LDPE plastic reaches the recycling centre it’s sorted and separated by plastic type and grade. Often soft and rigid LDPE items will be separated and sent for recycling separately.

Cleaning – lots of LDPE film, packaging, and other items may be contaminated with food, labels, and stickers. They are cleaned thoroughly to remove these and then dried sometimes.

Shredding/chewing – thin LDPE can get caught in the teeth of some recycling machines, so they’re sent to specialist LDPE recycling machines. These chew up and shred the plastic into small pieces.

Melting and moldeding – the shredded LDPE is then heated up to temperatures between 106°C and 112°C and melted, before being molded into plastic pellets.

Creating new products – these pellets are often mixed with small amounts of virgin LDPE and used to create new recycled LDPE products.