Can You Recycle HDPE?
Absolutely HDPE can be recycled! It is among the easiest and most frequent plastic resins to be recycled. It can be simply washed and melted for uses in products, or purified and re-polymerized to make new food-grade PET bottles and jars.
We encourage you to recycle your HDPE containers and pass the word on to your customers too! Containers made of HDPE can be identified at the bottom of most containers with the number 2 between the continuous recycle symbols.
Initially, the HDPE plastic containers are cleaned and then sorted as other plastic resins mixed in can spoil the recycling batch.
The HDPE bottles or jars are then shredded, melted and cooled. They are then turned into pellets which are re-used in the manufacturing process.
Scientific testing has shown that HDPE can be recycled and reused for new bottles at least ten times and may be used for other uses beyond that limit.
HDPE is not dangerous once it’s been made into the container that it will continue to be used for until it is recycled. HDPE is commonly used for food products thanks to regulations set out by the United States Food and Drug Administration. It should be mentioned that while all food-safe containers are made from HDPE, not all HDPE is food-safe.
Most importantly, all HDPE containers sold by Porter Bottle Company are food safe.
There has been a great deal of confusion about the safety of HDPE containers, especially following concerns raised about the safety of a different kind of plastic, which in the past contained bisphenol A (BPA) a substance formerly used to manufacture reusable rigid containers and electronic devices. There is no connection between HDPE plastic and BPA.
Containers in the United States have banned from using BPA since 1988. BPA is not used in the production of Polyethylene Plastics.
According to Omnexus:
HDPE is a cost-effective thermoplastic with linear structure and no or low degree of branching. It is manufactured at low temperature (70-300°C) and pressure (10-80 bar) & derived from either modifying natural gas (a methane, ethane, propane mix) or catalytic cracking of crude oil into gasoline.
HDPE is produced majorly using two techniques: Slurry Polymerization or Gas Phase Polymerization.
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