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As happens with the production of smooth pipes for conveying water made with recycled PVC granules, also the production of pipe fittings follows advisable production rules.

PVC pipes and fittings, suitable for draining water from buildings without pressure, have a good ally that is rapidly spreading around the world.

Recycled material is becoming increasingly popular in this field, giving a great hand to the circular economy and above all to the environment.

The reuse of PVC waste to transform them into other products, not only creates independence from the oil industry which, however useful, is the main cause of the greenhouse effect and the drying up of natural resources.

Where possible, avoiding further support for the virgin polymer industry, derived from oil, would certainly constitute a great gift to the environment and therefore to ourselves.

There is then to consider the aspect of pollution created by solid waste, which society produces at an impressive rate due to consumerism without brakes. This waste, through the principles of the circular economy, must be reused to reduce its impact on our lives.

In the world of production of PVC pipes and fittings, waste has taken on an important role as, through a correct selection of they can extrude pipes and inject fittings without using virgin material.

For fittings, which are made in different shapes and diameters, the origin of the material we want to recycle plays a very important role and which we will allocate to the production of the products.

There are some types of waste that can be used for this type of product:

• The window profiles which must be completely cleaned of rubber, silicone, gaskets and any metal part present in the windows.
• Shutters which must have the metal movement mechanisms completely removed
• The waste pipes produced or collected must be ground without being mixed with other pipes (PP-LD or HD)
• Credit cards as production waste
• Cores for wrapping paper or plastic film products
• Turning articles with full cylindrical shape or other shapes, resulting from processing waste from virgin or recycled materials

The choice to always use highly selected materials coming from a that is not post-consumer, guarantees a qualitative advantage at the source and, above all, the dangerous problem of pollution of the ground products from extrusion or molding with other types of plastics that are not distinguishable by eye is avoided naked.

If you do not have direct control of the input of the incoming PVC, but you purchase the finished ground or granule, before using it it is it is important to be able to carry out a laboratory analysisto understand the composition of the incoming raw material.

It would also be a good idea to have a small laboratory extruder to simulate a sample production, verifying the behavior of the material during the melting phase.

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