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Why do we need to recycling PVC pipes?

PVC (polyvinyl chloride) pipes are among the most widely used plastic products in construction, plumbing, and industrial applications worldwide. However, PVC is not biodegradable and can persist in landfills for centuries. Recycling PVC pipes is not only an environmentally responsible choice — it is also a profitable business opportunity.
Environmental Benefits: Recycling PVC pipes reduces landfill waste, lowers carbon emissions, and prevents harmful chemicals from leaching into soil and water. By reprocessing used PVC pipes into reusable powder or pellets, manufacturers can significantly cut down on virgin material consumption.
Economic Benefits: PVC pipe recycling allows manufacturers to recover production scrap (offcuts, rejects, and defective pipes) and turn them into valuable raw material. This in-house recycling approach reduces raw material costs by up to 40% and improves overall production efficiency.
At WANROOETECH, we have been helping PVC pipe manufacturers and recyclers in China, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and North America turn waste into profit for over 25 years. Our PVC pipe recycling machines are engineered for high output, low energy consumption, and minimal dust emission — ensuring both compliance and profitability.

How to recycling PVC pipe?

PVC is short for polyvinyl chloride and it is one of the most widely used polymers in the world. PVC pipes are common PVC products in the plastic industry. But how to dispose of used PVC pipes? Recycling, incineration and burial methods are three main solutions. Also, PVC pipe recycling is very common for the PVC industry to reuse the used PVC pipes. Because the thermoplastic PVC pipe can simply be reground, pulverized and returned to the extrusion process to make new pipe. That means used PVC can become new source material through a mechanical recycling process that grinds plastic into a powder base for new products. The whole mechanical recycling process contains many size reduction machines like PVC pipe shredders. PVC pipe recycling can help to enhance resource efficiency, save raw materials and reduce emissions and landfill.

PVC pipe recycling process:

The recycling process of PVC pipes is mainly divided into two categories. In cases of high production demand, PVC pipes are first crushed into fragments using a shredder, followed by grinding, screening, and grading to obtain uniform PVC particles. If the PVC pipe is relatively dirty, it needs to be cleaned to remove the dirt first, and then crushed, dried, granulated, screened, and graded to obtain clean PVC particles. Both recycling processes involve key steps such as collection and sorting, subsequent processing, screening and grading, as well as storage and transportation, to ensure the quality and reuse value of the recycled materials.

Option 1. PVC pipe recycling shredding crushing and pulverizer

Flow Process: PVC pipe shredder–PVC pipe crusher–PVC pulverizer machine

PVC pipe recycling shredding crushing and pulverizer video:

Option 2. PVC pipe recycling washing and pelletizing machine

First, the waste plastic PVC pipe fittings will be recycled, and then processed through a series of processing technology; second, processed into pipes through extrusion molding, so as to achieve the recovery and recycling of waste PVC plastic, which has a very important value for the protection of the environment.

After recovery, waste PVC pipes need to go through pre-sorting, crushing, wind selection, cleaning, two-step flotation separation, drying, granulation and other processes, followed by batching, kneading and extrusion molding.

(1) Pre-sorting: The plastic that is not PVC is selected, and some impurities are also sorted out in this process. After pre-sorting, the PVC is basically sorted out, but due to its composition, many impurities are mixed in the next process.

(2) Crushing: Shear type of plastic crusher is chosen for crushing, which can achieve full crushing through the impeller collision in the crusher. After that, it is further crushed by cone ball mill to make the particles finer.

(3) Sorting: The wind screening device is selected for airflow sorting. After crushing, the wind screening device for screening, the waste PVC plastic products will be crushed, and then the crushed plastic into the hopper of the sorting device, open the fan, the wind direction has a horizontal or vertical, so that the plastic fragments use the relative density difference and the different resistance to air, spraying out, falling to different distances and their own separation.

(4) Washing: After sorting that is the purification stage, that is, the washing of waste PVC plastic. Scrap PVC first needs to be pre-washed, also known as rough washing, in order to remove contaminants such as sand, stones and other debris to avoid damage to cutting knife blades or mechanical equipment in subsequent processing such as granulation. The washing is done with a washing solution with a concentration of 1% at 80°C in order to remove impurities such as paper, PP, PE, PS, etc. contained in the used PVC pipes. In order to avoid the influence of such substances on the quality of recycled pipes. Rough washing followed by fine washing, two washing makes the purity of plastic particles greatly improved, which is beneficial for later molding and processing of products.

(5) Flotation: flotation is carried out twice after drying. The principle of flotation is based on the selective fixation of the particles to be separated on the basis of bubbles, and in the natural state, most plastics are hydrophobic, i.e. floatable.

(6) Drying in the secondary drying is used in the hopper-type hot air plastic dryer.

(7) Granulation After the previous process granulation is carried out so that the plastic becomes tiny particles that meet the specifications to be processed, and finally the formed granules are stored in the granule box for backup.

(8) Kneading After drying, some additives need to be added to the raw materials, and the raw materials need to be mixed evenly before extrusion to ensure that the properties of the extruded products meet the requirements. In this design, a high-speed kneader is used.

(9) Extrusion molding The above process is the preparation work of extrusion molding. The extrusion method was chosen for processing plastic hard pipes. The extrusion molding process mainly uses a twin-screw extruder, shaping device, spray water tank, roller tractor and cutting machine. Extrusion molding is the best method for manufacturing pipes and the process is simple. Therefore, the extrusion molding process was chosen.

(10) According to the process flow of the pipe, a suitable production plant was arranged.

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