Why plastics recycling is becoming increasingly important

Plastic recycling is important to conserve our resources, which are partly finite. Recycling is nothing else than reusing waste, here in particular plastics. Since plastics often consist of several compounds that cannot be recycled by nature on its own, this has to be done by specialized companies. Protection of the environment as well as efficient recycling for a high-quality, recyclable product are the top priorities.

Plastics are used in a wide variety of industries. This always produces waste, which must be introduced into a raw material cycle and thus plastic recycling can take place. For this purpose, waste is collected, sorted, shredded and ground. This is mainly the case in the industrial sector. Plastics that are used for consumers are often collected at landfills or incinerated.

All our products are part of a cycle and are reprocessed at the end of their respective life cycles. The material chips generated in the production process are collected and re-compressed. If the product has reached the end of its life cycle at some point, there are two options:

• We offer our customers to take back the purchased products at the end of their use and return them to our production process in the form of regrind. The life cycle starts all over again.
• The second option is for the discarded product to go to our plastics recycler. The recyclers sort the plastics, cut them up and grind them. The resulting ground material now goes back to companies like LuxTek.

Continuous development of the processes and testing in our in-house laboratory is an important process in order to maintain consistent quality and produce high quality products (regranulate, regrind).

The answer to this is simple: on the one hand, the availability of recycled material depends to a large extent on how many products have been added to the market that can be recycled. This number fluctuates and therefore – still – a steady and guaranteed amount of recycled raw material is not always guaranteed.

On the other hand, there are also applications in which the material composition must be 100 % known – in other words, it must be clear what is inside the material. This is not always comprehensible with recycled material that comes from all over the world. One example is the food industry. If the plastic is in direct contact with food to be consumed, it must be known which components are contained in the plastic. Of course, these must not be substances that are hazardous to health.

To help our customers identify our 100% recycled material products, we have marked them with an appropriate logo.