Method of Recycling Filter Media

A method of making a component out of recycled polymer-base filter media cloth, the method comprising:

• providing a cloth, the cloth being spent polymer-base filter media;
• rolling the cloth into a roll;
• removing foreign solid particles from the roll of cloth by unrolling the roll of cloth and passing the unrolled cloth between a pair of rotating brushes, the brushes mechanical removing the foreign solid particles from the cloth;
• rolling the cloth that has passed between the pair of rotating brushes back into a roll;
• cutting the roll of cloth into a plurality of section such a plurality of rectangular sheets of cloth are produced;
• washing the rectangular sheets of cloth;
• drying the rectangular sheets of cloth;
• processing the rectangular sheets of cloth to produce particles and producing particles of polymer, the processing selected from the group consisting of granulating and densifying;
• providing an injection molding machine;
• placing the particles of polymer into the injection molding machine;
• and
• injection molding the particles of polymer to produce a component.