Mostly no. In many cases it's very difficult to give it away. You need specialty industrial equipment to get it in a condition to sell.Originally Posted by mike1
Mostly no. In many cases it's very difficult to give it away. You need specialty industrial equipment to get it in a condition to sell.
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Just a side note: 'recovered' clean and peletized plastic sells for about $0.60 /lb +- according to Google.
You can not mix plastic types, and often times, can not mix colors. Also, fiber-reinforced plastic is not recyclable at all.
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What about the tape on printer cartridges, aren't they gold plated buttons?
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so what kind of plastic is a dishwasher tub made of?
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I would make an educated guess that the tub is probably made of High Density Poly-Ethylene (HDPE). It is very strong, and can handle strong chemicals( acids and bases) without breaking down, or leaching plastic byproducts (phthalates) into the water, or on objects that are washed in it. When I worked in a chemistry Lab that analyzed soils and waters for plastic/organic toxic compounds, all of the glassware that was used for extraction was soaked in strong detergent in HDPE tubs because the HDPE would not leach out the same contaminants that we were using the glassware to try and collect.
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wow thats cool. what a background some people on here have just amazing! what is a chemist doing scrapping ? dont they make a crap ton of money?
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I was an analytical chemist. I worked as a contractor for the Army Corps of Engineers. Contractors are expendable when budgets get tight. The budget got tight when President bush enacted the Iraq surge. Our lab worked because the PI's had grant money to research their various interests. When the grant money dried up, the PI's (permanent investigators...I think. They were all PhD's) they went on Overhead, almost all of the contractors went on home.
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All of the tubs I have handled were #5, polypropylene. It's a flexible, durable plastic with a high temp tolerance and no real leaching.
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