This video series that describes how most of our packaging materials are made and recycle. Providing a life cycle for materials and considering it end use is important to maintain our resources. Through watching the process of how material are recycled. Energy required to remove labels, aluminium from tetra paks and additional resources into recycle. It can be seen that most recycled products, should be made from one wholistic material such as either paper or plastic. In instances where the materials are essential to the packaging, a system should be in place to easily separate materials, for easier recylcing.
Paper recycling
The paper are first pulped, inks are removed, raw material are added as required in order to produce, cardboard solely from waste paper.
Recycling tetrapk,
Tetrapak contain cellulose paper fibres & aluminum. Soaking the shredded carton causes the paper to swell, and aluminium is able to be removed. The aluminium can then be used in cement
infrared, composite carton, made great processs noticibl
Recycling tinplate
tin cans, magnet, steel works, 40% of steel requirement
aluminum, she
production waste, returned to
recycled
Recycling Glass- coloured glass fragment more than 10%
bottles, different coloured glass, octo-electronic device
melted with soda, lime and sand into bottles is most successful from of recycling
Recycling Plastic
In the past most plastic have been incenerated or been in landfill, in the meantime 2/3rds are recycled
Due to the dual system in 2001, plastics are sorted and imurities removed.
Bttles, film, pet, mixed, plastic lids are turned into high grade re-granulates various qualiters, drainage or pipes, punnets, children toys
How is it Made?
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