Recycling plastics - Resource efficiency with an optimized sorting method
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- In Germany alone, two and a half million tons of plastic packaging land in the yellow trash can. German households pre-sort their garbage into four separate trash cans; yellow for plastics, brown for compost; blue for paper and black for non-recyclables. Since the various plastics are very difficult to separate from one another, most of the material is utilized for energy.
The film from VDI Resource Efficiency Center, Recycling plastics - Resource efficiency with an optimized sorting method depicts an improved sorting and processing method for valuable plastics, bringing the plastics life cycle full circle.
MEILO, a company in Gernsheim located in southern Hesse, sorts plastic trash from the yellow barrels in 30 repetitive sorting processes until the maximal purity of variety has been attained. Plastics are first separated according to size and then subjected to an air separator. In the following step, a near infrared scanner scans the plastics on the conveyor belt as they pass, communicating to a compressed air jet at the end of the conveyor belt which plastics are recyclable. Finally, the compressed air jet blows these material aside. Thus, varying plastics are sorted by an up to 98% purity of variety. In addition to the three major valuable plastics, HPDE, PP and PET, four other well-recyclable plastic varieties are gleaned from the river of trash.
At Systec Plastics GmbH in Eisfeld, Thuringia, the plastics sorted by MEILO GmbH are further processed to produce a premium commodity for the plastics industry. Here, plastics are shredded and cleansed. Repeated circuits beneath a near LED scanner sort the plastic flakes according to color before they are melted and once more filtered. The 99% pure granules are then filled into containers and transported.
Werner & Mertz GmbH, manufacturing laundry detergents and cleaning supplies, uses Systec Plastics GmbH granules to produce their packaging bottles. The granules are easily processed in Werner & Mertz GmbH’s standard production plants in Mainz. Their HDPE bottles and PP twist-off lids are made of 100% recycled plastics from the yellow trash can. Their PET bottles are composed of 20% recycled PET from yellow trash cans and 80% recycled plastic from deposit bottles.
The plastic life cycle comes full circle, the raw materials are recovered.
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Note:
Unfortunately, a mistake crept into the final overview table of the savings (15:25 min.). We apologize for this. The correct value: 4,168,000 kg CO2 equivalents per year are saved when using PET bottles made of 100% recycled material compared to conventional PET bottles (false: 12,320,490,000 kg).
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Further information on MEILO Gesellschaft zur Rückgewinnung sortierter Werkstoffe (Corporation for the recovery of sorted raw materials) mbH & Co. KG: www.meilo-gernsheim.de
Further information on Systec Plastics GmbH: www.gruener-punkt.de/en/
Further information on Werner & Mertz GmbH: werner-mertz.de/index-en.html
Comprehensive resource efficiency information:
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Imagine how much easier sorting would be if we had an international uniform colour that was established for every plastic type.
That's a great idea
That’s a damn idea
yes, but unfortunately this is not how marketing works. There exists a company that uses the same type of bottle for all their drinks, they just change the label. I think that is pretty cool.
That's a great idea👌
That is a brilliant idea!
Thank God you people are saving our planet, literally. I separate my recycled products from my trash, only for the simple fact that I want my grandchildren to be able to experience what it's like to visit a beach with a clean ocean, and I want them to know what a polar bear is in their lifetime and not what an extinct bear once was. My hats off to your company for all the work your doing to help save our planet. Thank you.
Sadly not everyone lives through your example :(
love this :)
@@dw6empires Lol I’m used to trading with 2-5ETH back in the days. Now it’s like hmmm, I should lower my risk with using less ETH.guess what the CEO taught in jo me how to minimize my losses.
its time packaging design becomes complient to recycling machines needs
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Requirements for labeling every part of every product produced would solve the issue by allowing computers to sort through trash, ie a single stream trash/recycling system (minus compost). It would also save costs on transport.
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You're right in some of what you say. I worked in a factory making plastic bottles. Different bits need different plastics. The PET for a bottle isn't right for the lid or screw top. Some, though are made with one plastic put in another. Those should be banned.
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What amazes me the most is the machine that detects the color of individual plastic flakes and separates them via air pressure. I just cant wrap my head around how this is done with such precision, at such high speeds on such a small and flimsy material. /mind blown
I used to work at one of Europes largest pea factory.
We used color sorting machines to sort out anything that wasn't a pea of exactly right green color.
There could be peas that started to become yellow (a slight yellow tint on an area of the pea), there could be snails, slugs, pea pods, sticks and branches, bone, stone and pretty much anything that you can find in a pea field.
The toughest thing to sort out was the seeds from the nightshade, almost the same green as a pea but slightly darker.
Our color sorting macines sorted thing by color but also by shape.
If anything of the wrong color or the wrong shape passed by the sensors, it was blowed out pretty much like in this video.
At about 40 tonnes per hour we used 4 color sorting machines and we got around 99,9% of all foreign objects away from the peas.
10 tonnes per hour per machine.
The funny thing is that this is not a new technology.
The company I worked for bought their first color sorter 1990.
Is impressive, must be something similar to a electric diesel injector
This facility is LIGHTYEARS ahead of any of the ones in Canada, not to mention a hell of a lot cleaner. Working in a recycling plant separating out HDPE was the most soul sucking job I've ever had in my life. God bless anyone who can last at that type of job for more then a couple months because I'm pretty sure I would have turned into a serial killer had I not found something else.
Kudos to those who created this recycling process. All countries should be required to install this type of recycling center in their countries!
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I'm 14 teenage girl from Asia.But now after seeing this video ,I'm super excited for our future with recycle things .And if I would have any kids ,I will teach him no to litter the trashes and how to recycle them🤗.
@꒰ 天使 ꒱ from Singapore:-)
As a recycling enthusiast since the 1970's I found this video both educational and encouraging. This engineering brilliance to sort the plastics so thoroughly must be applied all over the world. (As an aside, I was amused to see that apparently many Germans, like the Americans, screw the bottle cap on as if the bottle is going to be refilled.) And even the German plastics recycling stream ends up with one third unusable inappropriate material. Public education needs a boost.
Sorting out colored plastic with air! Freaking awesome
no they are using some special color to light on the plastic and the censor is reading the color, the air is only for blow the little peace away, just listen carefully
@@REALIVH lol I understand that. But I think it's cool how it reads the color in the first place but even cooler to me is the air that follows, at just the right angle or presher to blow out a small piece of plastic.
I just find things like that fascinating.
I will start new job tomorrow as a plastic waste delivery driver for recycling company in Birmingham. Therefore I find this video very informative in terms of illustrating the way the plastic waste processed and converted into new viable products.
Hats off to these people who are working to save Mother Earth !
Dirty work, but helps to keep the planet clean. Thank you workers
If only advanced sorting machinery like this widely available, purchasable internationally, and people really content to sort out their trash, it is possible to create recycling facilities like this around the globe. Especially in developing countries, where plastic waste is a major issue and the cost of labor is cheap. With this method, we can minimize the need for new plastics, fast-tracking efforts of more sustainable plastic regeneration.
Actually, if anyone knows the cost of recycling using a similar method and care to share, pls comment here to contact me, I am currently studying the economic feasibility of recycling.
loved it! It's a full plastic recycle industry. It has lighten my day and boost the confidence of which we can make a bright future for sure. It's a fantastic project! Hopefully, it can be duplicated in other plastic heavy polluted countries with the company great collaboration!
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This was great. Thank you for posting.
We need this in America.
Americans do have a similar plants, see here for example: th-cam.com/video/vAr4BZM_Tzk/w-d-xo.html
"The journey of PP bottle cap"
0:18 first appearance
0:27 begin of the journey
2:01 on the way of the journey (identitiy reveal)
4:30 crossing the dead cliff
4:54 another on the way
5:23 another on the way pt.2
10:04 still on the way
12:18 the ultimate success
15:08 plot twist
This is a thoughtful, detailed video describing a process that is critical to society. I will do my best to sort my own waste output, or avoid "waste" altogether.
@757WN I do wonder if too much individual effort would be a threat to this automated system that is already in place. Imagine if everyone sorted all their disposables perfectly - it would negate the need for this refined system and the jobs it has created.
Seeing the precision of automation described in the video makes me wonder if it would be more efficient to just throw all my waste away as the engineers expect and let the machines handle it all in aggregate. Although it would require more energy for all this to happen.
What an awesome process! We all have to work together to rid our planet of the un recyclable plastics and to improve our streams. As a consumer I am try to be responsible. There is potential money making opportunities in all our waste streams.
This the type of shit i wouldve ignored in school, but now im actively seeking out on my own, funny how life
Recycling is vital if we want to save this planet for our future generations then we must have to take initiative.
It is good for the environment. Recycling begins at home; if you are not throwing away any of your old products and instead utilising it for something new then you are actually recycling. When you think of recycling you should really think about the whole concept of; reduce, reuse and recycle.
We’ve been careless and the way we’ve treated the Earth now it’s time to change; We have to become a hero to save the world.
Excellent video, thanks.
I used to work in the cement industry burning these materials for energy, Re-use, then Re-cycle always beat energy use.
The sorting processes have improved enormously due to technology, and the computer processing speed, I love the optical separators with air blasts to strip out the bad guys.
Thanks
Congratulations to the Germans. Really impressive technology.
Yeah, turning plastic into plastic is just amazing 😑
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@@artificialdopamine6542 could you develop such sorting technology? I doubt it.
I would have never imagined that soap bottles turned into jackets. Its amazing
Polyester.
I admire the technology & people involve in setting up this huge recycling facility. This is what all nation must have to reduce plastic pollution. Reduce, reuse , recycle.
all nations must have, but very few can afford...
However, Suez and IFC duet can turn this resource into proven direction in some pre-selected economies
We need more of these facilities around the world especially in the big countries.
I worked at Sarcan Recycling for 19 years. I handled many types of materials. They came from the depots in the Northern half of the province of Saskatchewan. Although I hauled out the bales of plastic, aluminium, and beverage containers, I also hauled out crushed glass, and cardboard bales. They are very busy at different times of the year, and it’s an extremely interesting place to visit. We often had school students from the various schools in Saskatoon come to the Processing Plant, which is where I worked. In later years, we also started baling plastic milk jugs. I did a lot of these, and it’s interesting as to how they fill the baler. It’s almost like baling sponge. Then before you realize it, you have a full bale of milk jugs. I won’t go into detail on everything, but the products left our yard, ready for the next step in their recycling journey. If you have the time, and want to see how the various materials are handled, visit a Sarcan Processing plant. You’ll be surprised by what you will learn. Thank You.
The next step for plastic is ugly clothes or rugs and then incinerator as most plastic can be recycled only once :)
This video somewhat raised my hopes for humanity. Thank you.
I used to work at a plastics recycling plant many years ago in Canada. We made plastic lumber that was mostly destined to make picnic tables and planks for boat docks. I had the opportunity to visit my city's plastic recycling plant (not as big as the one in this video). The technology used in this video is pretty impressive. 👍
Can you tell me pls what is the name and/or location for this plant that you used to work in Canada? Thank you!
@@zimnik67 Plant closed over 25 years ago. Can't remember the name. It was in Edmonton, Alberta.
Keep your country Green.
Keep your country clean.
Grow more native tree for next generation.
Happy country happy people 🌺
Good information friend😁
In the early 1990s, I worked for a Major Cola distributor in central Massachusetts, USA. I was a phase one recycle material sorter. Trucks would roll in, after they had made their deliveries, and off load bags of plastic bottles and aluminum cans. It was my job to empty the bags on a conveyor belt and remove foreign materials from the bottles/cans depending on which we were baling at that time. What sort of foreign material? Moldy food waste, such as pizza, grinder sandwiches, chicken bones, medical waste, such as syringes, dead animals, such as mice and rats, human and animal waste, aka feces, to name but some of what I retrieved from those bags. Beyond nasty! I was issued rubber gloves, a size too small, I wear XXL. I would go through 8 - 12 pairs a day! From which, I developed a latex allergy, as well as, chemical burns from the highly corrosive cola syrup. Many sodas contain phosphoric acid as an ingredient. This acid was developed as a universal solvent in medieval times. Ever see a frosted glass bottle, or glass with frosted designs and/or lettering? This is done with wax and phosphoric acid. The blue plastic barrels in which the syrup for these colas are shipped have warning labels that warned that their content is highly corrosive. At the end of my shift, I could literally stand my coveralls in a corner, as they were stiff from the cola syrup. The injuries to my hands were explained away as eczema. I was fired, due to an on the job injury, due to the negligence of co-workers on another shift. I received a settlement, half of what I should have receive, bamboozled by my lawyers. Lawyer, bad spelling of a liar. Years later, karma saw them disbarred for being in bed with the opposite side. And since the time I left that job, I have never had a bout of what the company quack named as eczema. They are as shiny as a freshly minted penny, from the burn scars.
You sound too dammed smart for the job!!
Nice story, just remember do not spread fear about chemicals: there are far far more nasty and toxic chemicals than the good ones it all depends on concentrations and types, thank you.
P. S. I know you had your reasons, I'm speaking just to make sure that there's no science ignorance here.
@@giovannipelissero1886 I fail to grasp your point. I, personally, am addicted to one of those name brand sodas. Besides the injuries in my "story", I have diabetes and kidney stones. I once passed an eight millimeter stone, naturally, and passed a 2mm one today. The problem is that there is a global science ignorance, and a vast need to ramp up recycling. The Earth's oceans and seas have floating islands of plastic that many of the human race have not a clue of their existence. All these so-called natural disasters is Mother Earth crying out warnings, that we can no longer ignore her warnings. Fresh water aquifers are drying up, never to flow again. Why, because of all the living water bags that walk our earth.
@@BayouOgre sorry I misunderstood your comment.
I agree with you, the earth is deeply changed and that is a fact, and in some in cases in a irreversible way or the way to reverse things is incredibly difficult.
Plus, I'm also worried about the mere resources of plastics which are petrol based that one day will run out.
It's just so important to make sure you're not putting non-recyclable items in the recycling. I think a lot of people suffer from wish-cycling where they think "this wrapper is plastic, it can be recycled" when usually that isn't the case. It contaminates the rest of the recycling stream, hence why we have huge recycling sorting systems that use huge amounts of energy.
This needs to be sort out in every country❤❤❤
Ok
I like how in 9:50 they act like they have a conversation.
Amazing how much technology we have. Great job Germany. We really need to adopt this process in the United States. The challenge is that Americans don't want to recycle. It's just plain laziness. I don't know even if we had such an amazing machinery we would do it. We can't even get people to wear a mask in Walmart......
Here in Germany we recycle the household trash. We have different colored bins. The bins for recyclable trash are free of charge. The one for non recycled trash costs money each time it will be picked up. The guys from the garbage collection make spot checks if you have recycled correctly. If you haven’t you must pay a fee. That system works for most people ;)
@@MausTheGerman Yea in canada we have a similar thing only no fees we can also take our bottles/pop cans to a recycling plant and get 10 cents per 250ml or 25 cents per 1 Liter container works pretty well considering we get paid for it
Germany, you are on the ball. You are doing a great job. I do hope & think we all need to go back to glass. I don't think we will ever get away from plastic, their is just too much already!
Informative, marvelous works in recycling by this team!
Germans are always so efficient! Very cutting edge and would love to see it here in the states! Amazing!
These recycling facilities have to be adopted by all countries. And every country should build a facility like this in every region. It creates exemplary waste recycling and provides millions of jobs around the world. It's doable if we have a government who are determined to do it.
One of the coolest videos I've ever seen. What an amazing plastic factory
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I have to admire this fascinating video and as it's Germany I am not surprised at this incredible sorting procedure, well done :)
Worldwide, the more we can recycle the better for everyone in the end.
I hope to see this kind of recycling increase year upon year, thereby decreasing the cost of all the processes plastic products have to go through.
An amazing video and very enlightening too.
Cliff from London UK.
My name is Volodymyr. I live in Ukraine in a small village. I'm just a mechanic who lives and works in my village. I see in your video a good life in Austria. I am very glad how other
Austrias live, and how bad we live in Ukraine, and especially in villages. In our village there is a large three-floor school and a primary care clinic. Perhaps there are organizations that throw away old laptops, printers, or monitors in your place. Well, things that they already do not need, but they can still work fine. I have seen such videos on the Internet as companies throw away laptops, and other working office equipment in processing. I looked at the video and thought that we do not have such laptops and printers at the school for children and in the hospital. Our school and hospital are, but not enough. You can find out if there is such an organization that plans to dispose of working equipment again. Maybe they could send it to my village in Ukraine for schoolchildren and to the hospital, but only for free? If it is not difficult for you to ask such organizations, ask them. You will do a good job.Maybe someone will read this message differently and would like to help our school. I do not incline you to anything, I just ask, maybe among you there are people who know who is old, but the computer equipment that you or them is no longer needed, but it is fully operational. You can send it to Ukraine in my village, in school for students, so as not to throw it into a trash can. P.S. I just want to somehow help my village, and especially schoolchildren. Therefore, I appeal to people with more opportunities than me.
well how about no? Do you know how expensive international transport is?!!?
@@97denis97 I understand it's expensive! But sir, if there is at least some opportunity to help students with technology - help. Maybe you can try it through the Evangelical Church ?!
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Sir, to have your doubts about me, here is my facebook page: facebook.com/profile.php?id=100030846600751
@@97denis97 well its intent thats important. His point is very valid corporations dump electronics as waste which can be reused in lots of other places even in same countries. I was in India we dump working computers lots of time as its too old but if properly managed, we can donate to some remote area schools where kids can learn and lead to make next google one never knows where is next Einstein born. it might be in some remote jungles or amazon or some remote places in India or China or Africa etc. Give opportunity to all kids across world is very important it just needs is some proper management of resources across planet and to come out of our comfort zone.
Kudos to Germany for taking care of environment... They can make German cars with these plastics.
well..., most people don't want to pay thousands of euros for a new car that is recycled :D but most of the inner invisible parts were usually recycled
I'm glad a video like this has so much views, resource efficiency is important, when a government does not price externalities
One the most interesting recycling videos I have ever seen. Thanks!
9:48 "These pellets smell great!" - guess they had to improvise haha
Why dont we take empty containers to the super market and refill them,reducing largely waste?
Bottled water. The ning nongs insist on paying for water. Drinking rarified spring water is supposedly livin' it. Why not they bring their bottles in for supermarket and retailer refills - on tap stuff. Actually, such could be applied to all beverages - bring own container as compulsory requirement - pay for dispenser refill of bottle. Good idea on your part.
The market wont get as much as money
@@Ferrrrs Yep. Bottlers - bottle manufacturers - would lobby fiercely against it. And it would be fraught with shortcomings. Supermarkets would be too cheap to hire staff the man the re-fill stations, so they'd make it self-serve and it would be like vendings machines with money being eaten without product return, and you'd have beverage slime all over the floor from incapable dickwits, and so on.
It's all about the money
Its almost impossible to wash them completely clean. Glass is way better.
Yes, please keep this good work and innovation, bring back all trash and process in the country in stead of exported it to beautiful south east Asia countries.
Thank you! It's great that we're all helping sustainability now.
Very very very well explained... a lot of questions I had about sorting different colours was answered partially here.
All hail the Yellow Bag!
the facilities have been expanded and improved a lot since this video was made, but one problem remains: very few companies are willing to use recycled plastic, so less than 20% of the collected plastic turns into new products. In Denmark stores are being pushed (through incentives) to only sell products that use recycled or fully recyclable packaging, which means a lot of things now comes in recycled plastic, even things that used to come in glass bottles or jars has switched to recycled plastic equivalents
Really good the mixture of real life footage with animation, the best of both worlds
Best video ....
The video I was really wandering around of some time..
What a great & educative documentary. I really enjoyed this video. :)
Im starting to feel bad using plastic for everyday use, but its really hard 🙆 salute for these kind of people i wish to work in this kind of industry preserving our planet ❤️
I Hope To Watch and learn More With a New Documentary.
Just One Of The Best.
I'm an hour to go to plastic recycling quiz XD
thanks for the video i learn more in 15 minutes than entire semester of online classes
Make use of that knowledge in times ahead apart from quiz
It's amazing how they can engineer a system on how to sort the plastics after their use. But to be more efficient, governments and private companies that manufacture the plastics should have engineered a way on how to label and separate the plastic containers before consumption, that way they wouldn't have to deal with the aftermath of a single streamed recycling process.
Do you take caps off every bottle you throw away? If you don't your mixing material.
@@ryancleaver6613 I know in Japan and Korea, they have very strict recycling and the people there know how to separate them. I know I haven't been good at recycling up until now when I learned about how the caps are separate materials but now that I know; I do. Although now I just have a reusable water bottle and don't even deal with plastic single use bottles anymore
Excellent German engineering and machinery. Many countries could learn from this and recycle more or more efficiently then they do already.
Indeed. The two major supermarket chains in Australia have plastic shopping bags manufactured from 80+ % post-consumer recycled LDPE plastic which originates from Europe and Great Britain. Thanks to the Germans it is that European and British soft plastic waste goes into the manufacture of Australian shopping bags. And they are really bloody good bags, as well. Better than the previous crap.
Nice to see things being re-made in plastics..
9:45 "We've had a good harvest this year! Feel how it dances in your palm."
"Yes, yes, very pretty palm dancing. And, oh, what a scent! I think I've just spoiled my trousers from excitement."
"I like your spoiled trousers."
"You're gross."
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Fascinating. Thank you for sharing.
I always see you in peter caines videos .
Thank you so much for showing us all we can do to help us save our planet 🌎 by recycling thank you 🙏
This video should get viral and people should get aware how the plastic is hard to recycle and how many steps it need to undergo. So that they stop using plastic
Wow ! Great job .
Im planning to take architectural course this next year for college and my inspiration are literally trashes.
Thank you for making and sharing this
I wish the garbage company in my small town would pick up recyclables. They do in Reno, but not Fernley where I live. What a shame what a lot of countries are doing by just dumping it into mature and the ocean when it could all be recycled. I really enjoyed this video.
What a positive thought well done you guys are osm 👏👏👏
Still thinking it might be a better idea to simply stop producing such waste at the start, eliminate or replace the need for most of its use with organic alternatives, etc...
I agree
Yeah, I agree. But stop producing plastic doesn't make money for the producers, which is why this vicious circle goes on. Also, for all the plastic already existing it is great to recycle it instead of just disposing it in nature or burning it which creates a lot of toxic fumes.
also go back to making durable stuf, if u buy any thing today it wont last 5 years and im being nice saying 5 years
Watching fr hongkong.recycle very good solution.for our environment..like philipppines.and other country..
Great vid. Those machines are crazy
The bottle cap was the star of this video
PP cap
"Millions of packages simply feel empty at some point, squeezed out and useless."
Same...
Sound like my depressing life......
Thanks, I feel very guilty about the waste I produce, and continue to minimise,and sort at source, but good to know these operations are tackling the problem.
Someone of a great learning experience
I'm no enviro nut by any means, but I think I can be on board for certain plastic 'bans', etc. I liked how some products I got for some food, forget which ones, they stopped using plastic case for the food and started using cardboard. I mean, plastic bans won't solve all the problems over night, but it can help reduce the amount generated in the first place.
Especially after seeing that plastic inevitably just gets thrown away anyway...
It’s time manufacturers were ordered by all governments across the world to use only recycled/100% recyclable plastics.
I live in the UK, many councils (to those outside the UK, our waste collection is performed by our local councils) within the UK don’t have any facility to recycle PP (5) plastics, the same occurs with Tetrapak items which all end up at incineration plants or landfill. Currently only 18 local councils within the UK offer Tetrapak recycling which is so disappointing.
Either governments need to change the legislation to prevent these “hard to recycle” plastics from being used by simply banning them as manufacturers would easily substitute them for another plastic that can be recycled. The alternative is for all councils to centralise the management for certain “hard to recycle” items and invest in the technology to permit it.
There's a tone I could go through regarding this but I'll try to keep it short. What makes thermo-plastics "hard to recycle" is determined by two main factors. What additives were used in the making of the original product and if the plastics have been bonded to other incompatible plastics or materials. Because what we want back from the plastics during recycle is the polymer itself and as little else as possible. But before we can even consider changing legislation regarding "hard to recycle" plastics, we need to consider why those additives and material bondings are done in the first place.
And that simply comes down to the consumers. These choices are more about economics than anything else. Consumers would rather buy a toothbrush with a soft TPE touch and matching colors than a plain white hard bristle rod. Even though the latter is the easiest to manufacture and recycle, consumers pay more for the "fancy" option. And if there's a higher demand for "fancy and hard to recycle" toothbrushes, manufacturers will follow that demand.
Fun story about that: Back in the day when plastic toilet seats were introduced, they were mostly disregarded by consumers because of their "cheap" feel in comparison to wood or metal seats. What manufacturers did was to add some chalk which increased the weight of the seats and made the product feel more "premium". All the while, chalk is cheaper than plastic, so the manufacturer saved money on production and consumers paid more for them.
What I'm getting at is that there are so many cogs turning in the decision making of how plastics are handled that simply "changing the legislation" isn't going to fix the problem. Especially since "hard to recycle" plastics isn't a definition. It's relative and ever-changing.
And I didn't even touch the subject of incineration plants.
Thank you for this video 🙏🏼
Nice work....you are a great TH-camr.
For those who are not from Germany, “Yellow Bag” means Post Consumer Recyclates (PCR)
Oh , really? Thank you
Since you are from Germany and I want this machine, write to me if you have information what's app
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The „yellow bag“ does not mean exactly post consumer recyclate. The „yellow bag“ is in the first place the post consumer waste which is then refined to post consumer recyclate in the facilities presented in the video.
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It seems that you have experience in this field. Introduce yourself
plastic actually was made to save the environment, because paper bag and tote bag for example cost too much energy to made and have short lifespan than plastic, that's why the inventor was inventing plastic (forgot the name, but check google or youtube later) so it took a hella long time to destroyed naturally, and makes it durable and can be use multiple times.It's not the plastic we should ban, but the human lifestyle who produce and using too much plastics.
True but we are not going through the right path. Governments don't do enough to save our planet.
Great video! I'm gonna share it on my social media.
Thank your attention for the world. Good job, God bless.
Wow, amazing - kind of gives you hope for humanity!!
Yet another example of German ingenuity. Brilliant, they get it done.
Rheinland-Pfalz, great Translation :-)
Thank you for your innovation
This is very impressive!
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This is a very good work to save our world
This video wowed me, I never knew I was stepping on money everyday.
That’s amazing. We need recycling more still ppl need to learn and maybe we can saved the world 🌎
Chris Finta
I mean, i get your point.. but the “world” will be absolutely fine. Animals will find a way to thrive in the environments plastic creates.
To think some Engineer had to design all that machinery..then a crew to install it..simply amazing the technology were not aware of
I'm always fascinated by the machines.
Sorting it based on colour ?this is great
More should be done like this here in the States.
Amazing! Thank you so much!
Good work
Очень интересное видео. Показывает производство переработки пластика где нет изможденных рабов отсеивающих пластик по видам или монументального сжигания пластика в печах как образец для подражания. А на выходе получают качественный прозрачный пластик а не уродливые черные ведра для мусора или тротуарная плитка. Молодцы да и только....
This something government, industry and recycling have together and start standardizing and redesigning packaging. What I’ve seen in Germany (like this video) and the Netherlands they are very far and innovating with universities. I hope we will corporate with other countries in sharing this knowledge, especially Africa and other countries invested with plastic.
In order to protect the environment,
Congratulations on your new achievement,
Li from China, manufacturer of low-temperature magnetic waste thermal decomposition device