Every recycling line has a goal, and it’s not the flake. The crusher breaks bottles. The shredder tears film. The washing line strips dirt. But none of that is a product you can sell at a good price. The moment you actually make money in plastic recycling is the...
Every injection molder and extruder has the same problem. Startup purges, color-change scrap, off-spec parts, runners, sprues. It piles up fast. You can sell it as mixed scrap at $50–100 a ton. Or you can shred it, granulate it, and feed it back into production at a...