Compartmentalized pellet for improved contaminant removal
AssigneeM&G USA Corporation
InventorsDelane Nagel Richardson, Edwin A. Sisson, Rebecca Spooner Korwin
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Abstract
This invention is to an improved method for cleaning contaminated polymer when that polymer is to be blended with clean material. The method involves combining the contaminated material and the clean material in a compartmentalized pellet wherein the contaminated material is placed in the outermost compartment, the clean material is placed in an inner compartment and then subjecting the pellet to an extraction process.
Claims3
A compartmentalized pellet comprising at least two compartments wherein a first compartment with the largest surface area contacting air comprises a contaminated postconsumer thermoplastic polymer comprised of a contaminant which can be extracted from the thermoplastic polymer when the thermoplastic polymer is in its solid form and the contaminant is selected from the group consisting of organic flavorants that are capable of migrating into the contaminated thermoplastic polymer, household chemicals and MXD6 and a second compartment comprised of an uncontaminated thermoplastic polymer which does not comprise the contaminant in the first compartment.
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