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A one-gallon HDPE jug weighs about two ounces. It also occupies roughly 231 cubic inches of space. That ratio, almost all volume and almost no

Ask a plant manager where the granulator lives and you will often get a slightly sheepish answer. Down at the end of the building. In

Here is a number worth sitting with. Every gaylord of sprues and runners waiting by the wall represents resin you already bought, already paid to

Water tanks, playground equipment, and industrial containers are made efficiently by rotational molding. Recovering the scrap from those operations requires a completely different approach than

Plastic scrap that leaves your facility unprocessed has a cost attached to it that goes beyond the disposal fee. Unprocessed plastic represents lost resin value,

Every pound of plastic scrap recovered in-house is a pound of virgin resin that does not need to be produced. That equation has a cost

Every plastic waste stream is different. Pipe is not the same as purge. Bales are not the same as hollow containers. Choosing the wrong industrial

The ZRS is called a pipe and profile shredder, and both words in that name matter. Most of the industry conversation focuses on round pipe,

The Plastics Pipe Industry Association reports that over 600 million pounds of post-consumer HDPE are recycled into new pipe every year in the United States.

PVC pipe scrap can become new PVC pipe. The technology to complete that closed loop exists, is proven in production environments around the world, and

Electronic waste is the fastest-growing solid waste stream in the world, generating more than 62 million tonnes annually. The shredders that handle it are some

A granulator produces particles. A pulverizer produces powder. Those are very different outputs that serve very different downstream processes, and the industries that need powder