Plastic recycling plant
In order to find out what others do to solve the problem that is the same to ours,
our team went to the
Green Technologies Industries
factory located in the village of
Badam
, near the
city of Shymkent.
The Green Technologies Industries factory is the
first
in Kazakhstan to work with PET plastic.
The factory has launched the performance of the first stages:
washing, drying
and
splitting
up the PET waste,
where
73
people are now working.
The next stage of recycling -
production of staple fiber.
Before the trip, our team organized a clean-up with a separate
collection of plastic together with the eco-volunteer organization of the
city of Shymkent
“New Wave”.
We brought them all the plastic we collected
during the clean-up, and the ones we collected in our schools.
We went there to find out what the
recycling process
looks like.
The CEOs of the factory told about the production process, showed their
products, introduced their workers and conducted a tour. That experience
showed us how something
new
that can again benefit people is created from
unnecessary garbage.
At the end, we asked the CEOs for an
interview
where they would
answer the questions we were interested in regarding the recycling process.
After receiving answers to all questions, we took a general photo. Eventually, our team was in anticipation of
future cooperation
with this factory.
Interviews with plant employees
- How many kg/ton of plastic are processed per day?
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We have quite large volumes: we process from 80 to 100 tons of PET bottles per day.\
- From which company/enterprises do you receive recycled/plastic waste?
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We get plastic garbage from all the polygons in Kazakhstan.\
- How does the plastic processing work?
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We have special equipment that splits and opens bottles. Then the open bottles fall into another device that cleans each bottle of dust and dirt.
At the next stage, the bottles go into the device with a large number of rows with knives that cut the bottle to separate the label from the bottle.
Then the bottle is delivered to the sorting tape, where the sorters are located, placing the bottles in color for further processing.
Then it’s all crushed with a special crusher that has a 400-millimeter grid at the bottom. The bottle will be crushed to this size until it falls down.
This is followed by cleaning with powder at high temperatures, then rinse and drying, at the end it is all packed in bags.
Then all this goes to other stages where everything is melted and turned into a homogeneous mass and give a certain shape depending on what will be produced next.
- What do you think about our project?
Your project is very interesting! I am glad that youth are striving for development and are already contributing to the prosperity of the country.
If there is an appropriate apparatus/equipment that could be introduced into production, and to make the appropriate calculations, I think that in the future it can be implemented and scaled!
