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Recycled plastic

Plastic recyclingis the process of recovering plastic waste and reprocessing the material into useful products. Since the majority of plastic is non-biodegradable, recycling is a part of global efforts to reduce plastic in the waste stream.

Polymers recycling is often very challenging because of large volume and low value. There are also numerous technical hurdles to overcome when recycling plastic. When different types of plastics are melted together, they tend to phase separation, like oil and water. The phase boundaries cause structural weakness in the resulting material, meaning that polymer blends are useful in only limited applications. Each time plastic is recycled, additional virgin materials must be added to help improve the integrity of the material. So, even recycled plastic has often new plastic material added in. The same piece of plastic can only be recycled about 2-3 times before its quality decreases to the point where it can no longer be used.

Plastic is one of the world’s most-used materials. Technically sophisticated, lightweight and cheap, plastics suit a broad spectrum of uses. The problem with plastic lies not in how it is used, which is generally harmless, but in end-of-life management of products made from it. Currently, most plastic post consumer waste and even some post-production scrap goes to landfill or is released into the environment one way or another. This plastic takes hundreds of years to decompose and constitutes a grave threat to the marine environment. How plastic waste is processed remains extremely variable from country to country, and recycling remains considerably under-used. And yet recycling is the best solutionfor processing plastic waste because it limits environmental impact. Recycling plastics also leads to significant reductions in atmospheric emissions of CO2, because using recycled plastic avoids emission of an amount equal to that generated during production of raw plastic.

Gianeco S.r.l. focuses its activity on searching the application for post-industrial waste of the large number of polymers, in order to reduce the environmental pollution and to give the new life to the wasted plastics. We work with the idea that plastic waste is not the rubbish, it is a resource for our society, if used and recycled correctly.
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