Post Consumer Recycled HDPE: Where does it come from and what it is

The post-consumer recycled HDPE granules come from urban separate waste collection, in particular from detergent bottles, as regards extrusion or from caps and multipurpose cassettes as regards molding.

The bottles are collected, ground, washed, separated by color through optical reading machines and extruded respecting recipes that consider the low% of PP content (normally within 2%) the density, an excellent filtration ranging from 60 to 100 micron and the final color of the granule according to the customer's request.

You can obtain HDPE recycled granules with light colors (families of white, red, yellow, blue, etc.) and dark colors in different shades and shades.

The fields of application of recycled HDPE are the production of detergent or industrial bottles from 0.5 to 20 liters at 100% or mixed with virgin, to corrugated and smooth pipes with recipes for external and internal walls, to films with a compound with LLD and virgin producing 10-15 micron thicknesses, flexible membranes, profiles, etc.

As regards the HDPE recycled from molding, granules divided by color from MFI 2 to MFI 8 can be produced with filtrations that depend on the final product to be printed.

Also in this case the processing cycle includes grinding, washing and subsequent extrusion.

In the rMIX recycling portal you will find offers and requests for HDPE recycled in granules, ground, densified or in bales.