{"id":28841,"date":"2015-05-18T12:20:32","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T10:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=28841"},"modified":"2015-09-24T12:34:34","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T10:34:34","slug":"sorting-plastic-from-other-plastics-to-separate-biodegradable-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/sorting-plastic-from-other-plastics-to-separate-biodegradable-materials\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorting plastic from other plastics to separate biodegradable materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The new mixtures of plastic need to be separated into different families if the plastic is to be recycled into biodegrabable and non-biodegradable material. The construction of a film sorting machine will lead to savings in CO<sub>2<\/sub> emissions, energy and water consumption.<\/strong> <strong>The recycling of plastic is increasingly complex because there are so many types of plastic and many have different processing requirements.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>FILMSORT is an EU-funded project that is looking at an efficient and sustainable way of recycling waste plastic bags and film, while also ensuring that they are separated into biodegradable and non-biodegradable types.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShopping bags and films used to be made of non-biodegradable polyethylene (PE),\u201d says Sixto Arnaiz of the Spanish research institute GAIKER, who is also the project coordinator for the three-partner consortium. \u201cNow, many of the new bags are in bio-plastics and plastic mixtures that are not recyclable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The project\u2019s main objective is to build a film sorting machine that can handle the complicated new mixtures of plastics. \u201cOur idea is to separate plastic types into compatible families,\u201d says Arnaiz. The machine will sort plastic at a rhythm of 200 kilos per hour.<\/p>\n<p>In collaboration with the Spanish plastics recovery company CORDOPLAS and the German RTT-Steinert that constructs equipment for recycling plants, FILMSORT will have made it possible to recycle the waste plastic into good quality pellets that can be transformed into plastic products again.<\/p>\n<p>This should see the use of virgin polyethylene go down by 40%, as well as considerable savings in CO<sub>2<\/sub> emissions, energy, water consumption and recycling costs. The machines will hopefully be sold to the over 250 plants in the EU that treat between 1.6-2 million tonnes of plastic every year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/environment\/eco-innovation\/projects\/en\/projects\/filmsort\" target=\"_blank\">More about FILMSORT project<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/environment\/eco-innovation\/\" target=\"_blank\">More about eco-innovation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new mixtures of plastic need to be separated into different families if the plastic is to be recycled into biodegrabable and non-biodegradable material. The construction of a film sorting machine will lead to savings in CO2 emissions, energy and water consumption. 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