There is no doubt that nowadays we need to hire a Waste Service to handle the way we process our garbage. In some countries the law obligates companies to hire professional services from registered Waste Service companies.

But what about households and general people that aren’t required to have a Waste Service contract by law. Do they really need it? Can they handle their waste on their own?

The truth is that we all can collaborate to the well being of our planet. We don’t need professionals to handle our garbage. We can do it ourselves and it shouldn’t be difficult at all.

The best practice doesn’t consist on handling our garbage in the best way or hiring someone to do it. The best practice is to produce less garbage. But can we really do this? Studies show that yes, we can. In fact every day people tend to produce more food garbage than anything else. We buy things we don’t need and in the end this stuff ends p in our bins. It is such a shame considering that there is a huge amount of people suffering from hunger in certain parts of the world.

We only need to plan what we are going to cook during the week and then go to the shop and buy only what we need. This could be difficult but it is a good idea to keep a list on our fridge door in order to know what is inside and what is needed for next week.

Recycling is also another good way to reduce the amount of waste we produce. Let’s start with paper. If you have some old books that you are thinking on throwing away why don’t you try to sell them first on websites like ebay or amazon? If you don’t have the time to do this at least drop them in the nearest library. There are books that we know we won’t read ever again and we still keep them knowing that later when we will need space we will have to put them away. This is really unfair to the planet.

The same goes for toys and unused objects. Don’t put them in the bin is somebody else could use them. Go to charity shops and drop them there or you can donate them to charities. There are things that we throw away not because they are broken but just because we don’t need them.

Lets remember that if we share our stuff then people will need to buy lees new stuff. This means that the demand for good would decrease and therefore produce will produce less which means that less raw materials would be consumed.

According with a waste service, to implement a recuperation plant it is first necessary to perform a selection of them according to destination, and the first selection corresponds to those plastics that can be reused in its current condition and form. Once cleaning is undertaken separate from them, if necessary to repair or upgrade, and its storage for sale. Rejections go to the next phase.

The fraction passing reusable recycling, and this can be done in the plant or the product ready to be sent to another factory for recycling, and in both cases can be recycled plastic each class separately or altogether explained a waste service.

In any case, the first operation to perform is the washing of plastics, which means increasing the sale value whatever further treatment.A washing machine with a capacity to treat up to 500 kg / h has an amount of about 4,500 Euros

For waste service, the most profitable is to perform the separation in various kinds of plastics, especially the most valued, and treated separately.

In principle, always depending on local conditions that determine it is advisable to separate PVC, PET, PE and ABS manually, it is necessary to train staff to learn to recognize the different qualities.This we have five separate kinds of plastic (the four mentioned and fifth formed by all other plastics (polyurethane, polystyrene, polyesters, polyamides …). The separate classes may be more or less according to the conditionslocal planned investment, market, etc..

If it is not intended to give more value to the product simply compressed into bales for sale, so you need a press, where the cost of acquisition depends on the required production and type (manual, mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic …)and may be between 1000 and 12,000 Euros.

An added value is achieved by crushing and conversion into pellets.A shredder for 100 Kg / h has a cost of 9,000 euros. Shredded plastics go to a store for homogenization to maintain a uniform quality (we suggest a storage equivalent to 8 to 10 working days), and then makes an extruder pellets.Extruder is needed for each class of plastics to recover, and a bagger for packaging the finished material for sale.An extruder for 100 Kg / h of pellets has an amount of 4,000 Euros, approximately, and a bagger between 450 and 5,000 Euros, depending on the degree of automation and production desired. Quality composed of plastics that are not separately stored, cleaned, crushed and mixed with the refuse of the previous extruded plastic or low quality, and passed through an extruder to form the profiles.

There should be based on the amount needed to manufacture profiles to unify the product in color and appearance for each batch.Before extruded plastic needs to be added to the amount of dye stored needed to obtain the desired color.

These profiles can be used as substitutes for wood in construction or furniture.The price of the extruder to 100 Kg / h is about 4,000 Euros, and each profile for the extrusion has a cost between 200 and 600 Euros, depending on its shape.