System and method for recycling personal protective equipment
AssigneeVitacore Industries Inc.
InventorsNida Riaz, Linda Tong, Yang Fei
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Abstract
Described herein are methods of recycling polypropylene based personal protective equipment. The method may comprise the steps of: (a) conveying a feed of personal protective equipment; (b) cleaning at least a portion of the feed of personal protective equipment; (c) fragmenting the personal protective equipment into a plurality of fragments, the plurality of fragments comprising non-polypropylene fragments and polypropylene fragments; (d) separating at least a portion of the non-polypropylene fragments from the polypropylene fragments to produce a batch of polypropylene fragments; and (e) pelletizing the batch of polypropylene fragments to produce polypropylene pellets.
Claims20
A method of recycling polypropylene based personal protective equipment, the method comprising:
- conveying a feed of personal protective equipment;
- cleaning at least a portion of the feed of personal protective equipment;
- fragmenting the personal protective equipment into a plurality of fragments, the plurality of fragments comprising non-polypropylene fragments and polypropylene fragments;
- separating at least a portion of the non-polypropylene fragments from the polypropylene fragments to produce a batch of polypropylene fragments;
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- pelletizing the batch of polypropylene fragments to produce polypropylene pellets.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.