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Process of Pipe Recycling

5/30/2012

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Have you ever wondered how large pipes are being recycled? Recycling in the plastics industry is common most especially when it comes to pipe recycling. Instead of producing plastic materials, it would be more environment-friendly and cost effective for plastics companies to recycle. Since plastics have about 100 years of life span, it is still possible for plastic to be recycled even for several times.

Pipe recycling involves both recycling of yellow pipes used in gas pipes and blue pipes used for water pipes. Although steel recycling is much more recognized, plastic recycling is not entirely a new idea. But do you know how these pipes are being processed during recycling? Once the recycling companies collected sufficient number of pipes, they will be packed together by a wire for easy transportation. Since pipes are long, they will have to be cut to convenient sizes. They also have to be sorted meticulously to ensure that different plastic types are not mixed with other plastics. Sometimes, pipes have to be washed and dried to remove the dusts that might have accumulated. This is important to guarantee that the end product is still of highest plastic quality.

If the pipes are cut in manageable sizes and have been cleaned, the pipes will now undergo a mechanical process. It will then be processed by a heating machine to enclose spaces and ensure that plastics are thoroughly bound. The plastic product will go through shredding and granulation using spinning blade machinery. Sometimes, same plastic types will be blended together to form a new plastic product.

This is basically how pipe recycling is done but recycling companies are geared more on producing top quality plastics made from scrap pipes.  In order to achieve that, they still have other intensive procedures that will guarantee high quality products. Now you are aware that the pipes used today are capable of being reused numerous times through rigorous pipe recycling process.

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