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How to press/compact plastic bottles (PET Bottles) without any expansion

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Bottles made of polyethylene terephthalate (PET, sometimes PETE) can be "recycled" to reuse the material out of which they are made and to reduce the amount of waste going into landfills. PET is semi-porous and absorbs molecules of the food or beverage contained, and the residue is difficult to remove: Heating the plastic enough for sterilization would destroy it. Therefore, most recycled bottles are used to make lower grade products, such as carpets.[citation needed] To make a food grade plastic, the bottles need to be hydrolyzed down to monomers, which are purified and then re-polymerized to make new PET. In many countries, PET plastics are coded with the resin identification code number "1" inside the universal recycling symbol, usually located on the bottom of the container. PET is used as a raw material for making packaging materials such as bottles and containers for packaging a wide range of food products and other consumer goods. Examples include soft drin...

What is a shredder? How to get a shredder? What are the benefits for a shredder?

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How do I use a Shredder? A shredder, shredding machine or document shredder is a mechanical device for cutting paper and other media which contain information into fragments so small that the information can no longer be retrieved.  How to use a shredder? The ultimate aim is the secure destruction  of sensitive personal or business data. Government bodies, not-for-profit organizations, businesses, and individuals use shredders to destroy private or otherwise sensitive information. What are the benefits of a shredder? Investing in a good quality shredder can bring your business lots of benefits. Increase Security: The main benefit of a good shredder is the increase information security that it can provide your business. Modern businesses must work to ensure that their sensitive data does not fall into the wrong hands. From both regulatory and competitive perspectives it is so important that businesses put their confidential data beyond t...

Life Cycle Costing Stainless Steel Recycling

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Stainless steel products are designed for a long life - typically several decades. Indeed, this is often the reason for selecting stainless steel in the first place. However, there will come a time when the product has reached the end of its useful life: by fashion change (the product still functions well but the design is out-dated e.g. shops, restaurants and other buildings); by technological redundancy (e.g. the product is replaced by a more efficient technology); by product failure (e.g. some part of the equipment fails because of eventual corrosion). In many of these cases, the stainless steel has suffered little degradation and still contains the high value of the initial alloying elements such as chromium, nickel and molybdenum. This makes it a valuable source of those constituents to the stainless steel producer and a high proportion of material going into the melting furnace is usually recycled. Therefore there are well established systems to collect and recycle stainless ...