Toothpaste tube recycling line can treat with toothpaste tubes, toothpaste packaging, toothpaste tube waste, etc. The whole process includes crushing, grinding, air separating, electrostatic separating and pulse dust collector system. PLC intelligent system realized high automatic, the whole line just needs 1-2 man to operate. With over 20 years of experience in recycling, WANROOE not only mastered the key technology but also improved machine designs to address specific product features. WANROOE offers Toothpaste tube recycling solutions that are high output and low energy consumption.

Why do we need toothpaste tube recycling?

Toothpaste tubes are a classic aluminum-plastic composite — typically 20–30% aluminum foil laminated with polyethylene or polypropylene. Separated cleanly, both fractions command solid resale prices: aluminum for smelting or powder metallurgy, plastic for regranulation into pipes, sheets, or packaging.
The challenge is the lamination bond. Mechanical shredding alone cannot separate the layers. WANROOETECH’s line uses a grinding + electrostatic separation sequence that breaks the composite down to powder fineness, then sorts by conductivity — achieving >99% purity on both streams without water or chemicals.
Feedstock scope extends far beyond toothpaste tubes: medical blister packs, yogurt lids, aseptic foil, aluminum composite panels, and laminated food pouches all process on the same line.

Toothpaste Tube Recycling Machine Application Areas:

Aluminum-plastic recycling machine is mainly used to recycle various aluminum-plastic panels, waste plastic aluminum, toothpaste tubes, pharmaceutical blister packaging, pharmaceutical capsule plates, pharmaceutical blister foil, aluminum and plastic plates, various aluminum plates, waste aluminum plastic food bags, Milk bags, yogurt aluminum foil sealing cover, bottleneck aluminum foil cover, aseptic aluminum foil cover waste, circuit board, aluminum laminate, aluminum composite panel, aluminum composite tube, aluminum composite panel scrap and aluminum composite panel fragments, etc.

Toothpaste Tube Recycling Machine Video:

Toothpaste Tube Recycling Machine Working Principle:

Materials such as scrap aluminum plastic plate packaging first enter the crusher through the conveyor belt and are broken into small pieces. Subsequently, these flake materials enter the plastic crusher and are further ground into powder. Next, the bucket elevator feeder transports the aluminum-plastic mixture to the electrostatic separator, which uses electrostatic force to efficiently separate aluminum and plastic. During the entire process, the waste gas generated will be collected and processed by the pulse dust collector to ensure that the emissions meet the standards. Finally, the separated aluminum and plastic components are collected separately in preparation for subsequent reuse.

Toothpaste Tube Recycling Machine Process Flow:

Toothpaste Tube Recycling Machine Technical Features:

Highly automated and stable
Program control achieves full process automation, simplifies manual intervention, and ensures stable and reliable system operation.
Efficient electrostatic separation technology
Adopting advanced electro selective separation technology, the separation efficiency reaches over 99%, and the separated product can directly enter the sales process.
Green and environmentally friendly design
The entire process has no wastewater discharge, zero secondary pollution, meets environmental standards, and achieves true green recycling.
Low energy consumption and low-noise operation
The device has low power consumption, low noise, compact footprint, and no dust leakage during the production process, ensuring a safe working environment.
Wide material adaptability
Support sorting of toothpaste tubes with multiple materials, efficient sorting speed, and meet the needs of large-scale processing.
Advanced sorting technology
The aluminum-plastic sorting and reuse equipment integrates water-cooled and air-cooled vortex wheel grinding technology, resulting in more thorough material separation and a wider range of applicable material types.

What’s the use of the finished products?

The recycled aluminum could be directly used for smelting aluminum ingots, or directly used in aluminum powder factories, fireworks plants and aluminum plants, while the separated plastic can be used to make plastic sheets, tubes, packages and water pipes. This makes the aluminum plastic separation recycling business a big potential market.

Toothpaste Tube Recycling Main Equipment:

1、Crusher Feature:
1. The external bearing seat can effectively prevent materials from entering the bearing and causing machine failure, and can effectively improve the service life of the machine.
2. The blade is made of D2 material, which belongs to high-quality tool steel with a hardness of 59-60HRC, which has the advantages of good toughness and long service life.
3. The blade can also be upgraded to DC53 material or laser strengthened blade, and its service life can reach about 1.5 times of the D2 tool.
4. Adopting a knife design, higher output, suitable for film, tablet packaging, etc.!

2、Pulverizer
Why use PNMP Pulverizer:
The PNMP Pulverizer structure blade is cheaper. It uses high-speed impact and cutting. Due to the difference in shrinkage of aluminum and plastic, plastic film and aluminum film are separated!
PNMF Pulverizer can also be used in the production of tablet aluminum-plastic, but the blade wears fast, but the output is high! PNMP Pulverizers are more widely used, so there are no worries!

3、Electrostatic Separator
Electrostatic separation methods have been utilized for the past 50 years (the commercial-scale beneficiation of industrial minerals and the recycling of waste materials. It has been successfully applied to separate metal/nonmetal mixtures, i.e. aluminum or copper from plastics or paper. All electrostatic separation systems contain a system to electrically charge the particles, an externally generated electric field for the separation to occur, and a method of conveying particles into and out of the separation device.
High tension roll electrostatic separation systems have been used in many industries and applications where one component is more electrically conductive than the others. Examples of applications for high tension roll separators include titanium bearing minerals separation, as well as recycling applications, for example, sorting the metal from plastic.

4、Pulse dust collector(Optional)
Pulse dust collector is widely applied to dust purification in hardware, cement, building materials, ceramics, electronics, chemical industry, footwear, foundry, plastics, aluminum products, metallurgy, electric power, leather, food, machinery processing, nonferrous metals, and other industrial fields.
Because this dust collector adopts the ash cleaning method with pulse injection, has the advantages of good cleaning effect, high purification efficiency, large air volume, long life of filter bag, small maintenance work and safe and reliable operation.

Bag dust collector: It can replace the pulse dust collector, the structure of the intersecting pulse dust collector is simple, the area is small, and the price is lower, but there is a certain gap between the processing efficiency and the pulse dust collector.