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PP LUNCH BOX WASHING RECYCLING LINE

Project Introduction

According to statistics, China generates an average of about 25 million tons of plastic food container waste annually, with only 250,000 tons being recycled, accounting for just 1%. The unrecycled and untreated waste has a significant impact on the natural environment. Thanks to the characteristics of PP lunch box and continuous advancements in recycling technology, plastic food containers can not only be recycled but also have considerable recycling value and development potential.
Food, clothing, housing, and transportation are the fundamentals of human life. However, with the rapid development of China's internet food delivery market, a large amount of packaging waste has been generated in the food delivery industry, causing serious environmental pollution. The cleaning fragments are free from yellow spots and oil stains, have minimal odor, and can be processed into first-grade granules. These granules have various applications, including thermoforming, injection molding, and fiber production, offering significant recycling value and contributing to environmental regeneration.
After years of technical iteration and upgrading, the company combines the needs of the lower market and customers, and provides immersive deep cleaning through innovative design of hot washing process, which effectively solves the problem of reducing the generation of powder in the crushing and cleaning stage of waste PP food boxes, and also reduces the use of industrial cleaning agents in oil removal.

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Ⅰ. Core process of PP lunch box recycling and cleaning equipment

Objective: The used PP lunch box will be cleaned and broken down into recycled plastic pellets (rPP) to realize circular economy.
Full process in stages:
1. Sorting and removing impurities → 2. Pre-washing → 3. Deep washing → 4. Crushing and dewatering → 5. Melting and granulation

Ⅱ. Key equipment configuration and function

1. Sorting and pre-treatment section
Manual/automatic sorting station
-Remove non-PP materials (such as PS, PET, aluminum foil, etc.) and severely contaminated lunch boxes.
-Upgrade options: infrared spectrometer (NIR) automatically identifies materials.
-Remove the label and glue residue of the meal box.
2. Cleaning section
-Coarse crusher
-Break the lunch box into pieces to improve cleaning efficiency.
-Hot washing tank (de-oiling)
-Add alkaline cleaning agent at temperature 70-90℃ to remove grease and organic matter.
-Friction cleaning machine
-High speed rotating friction removes attached stains, combined with high pressure spraying.
-rinsing bath
-Circulating water washing + flotation separation (removal of density impurities).
-spin-drier
-Centrifugal dehydration to moisture content <5%.

3. Regenerated granulation section
-Fine crusher
-Further crush the fragments to 3-5mm particles.
-Melt extruder
-Temperature control 180-220℃, filter impurities in the melt (the accuracy of the filter is less than 80 mesh).
-dicing cutter
-Uniform RPP particles are produced for injection molding of new meal boxes.

Ⅲ.Technical difficulties and solutions

question

Rx

Oil stains are serious

Multi-stage hot washing + biological enzyme cleaning agent (food grade)

The label is difficult to separate

High temperature water tank + mechanical friction stripping

Impurities affect the purity of regeneration

Flotation separation + melt filtration (multi-layer filter)

High energy consumption

Waste heat recovery (such as drying section heat used for preheating cleaning water)

 

Ⅳ.Environmental protection and safety requirements

1. Waste water treatment
-Oil and water separator + sedimentation tank should be configured, and the pH should be adjusted to neutral before discharge.
2. Waste gas treatment
-Install activated carbon adsorption device in the molten section (to avoid VOCs escape).
3. Noise control
-The crusher is equipped with a sound insulation hood, which is the basis for equipment vibration reduction.

Ⅴ. Cost and benefit analysis

-Cost: about 800,000-1.5 million yuan for small and medium-sized production lines (1-2 tons/hour).

-Operating cost: power consumption is about 0.5-0.8kWh/kg, water consumption is about 1-1.5 tons/ton raw material.

-Output value: The price of recycled PP particles is about 60-70% of the new material (which needs to pass food grade certification).

Upgrading options (increasing added value)

-High purity sorting: electrostatic sorting machine removes metal/non-PP plastics.

-Food grade certification: high temperature vacuum deodorization process is added to meet FDA/EFSA standards.

-Intelligent monitoring: PLC system monitors parameters such as cleaning degree and melt pressure in real time.

If you need more detailed plans (such as layout diagram or equipment brand recommendation), you can provide specific requirements (such as daily processing capacity, site size, etc.).

Model

Capacity

(kg/h)

 Power

(kw)

Space

(m2)

Compressed air

(m3/min)

Water

(m3)

PE/PP1000

1000

150

700

0.5

2

PE/PP2000

2000

230

1000

0.5

3

PE/PP3000

3000

290

1500

0.5

3

 

Ⅵ. Main products:

PTC water breaker

High efficiency crusher
Breaking is stronger and easier to disassemble

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Repetitive washing machine

Clean up debris and separate residual dirt and dust

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High temperature hot

washing machine
Intense hot washing intelligent control

Efficient sorting to remove impurities

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High efficiency dehydrator

High speed dehydration has lower energy consumption

DCS intelligent recycling line control system

Upper computer control system:
feature:
① Production process is real-time controlled, data.
② Real-time monitoring of the operating status of devices

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③ The system is equipped with an intelligent physical examination module to remind the equipment of regular inspection items in real time to avoid false or missed inspection.

Brand of Components:

All type of bearings use Japanese NSK or German SKF,  pic01
The motor is SIEMENS or WEG  pic02
The reducer adopts Ruidesen  pic03
Inverter  pic04
Low voltage components  pic05
PLC Module  pic06
Imported conductivity sensor is used for hot washing detection

 

DCS SYTEM  pic06
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Why POLYTEC more suitable for your investment?
With Austrian Technology & Made in China
Use our own factories to manufacture waste plastic recycling machines(plastic washing line and pelletizing line) - better quality control
With CE certificate, can meet UL/CSA standard
Quick machine service
Intelligent machine control
Low energy consumption, high output
Equipped with a complete water treatment system

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