How much does it cost to recycle aluminum and plastic?

More and more recyclers want to engage in aluminum plastic recycling business in order to get aluminum from waste aluminum plastic composite materials for profit. If you are new to aluminum plastic recycling business and want to know the cost to recycle aluminum and plastic, we could have a detailed talk about it.

The aluminum plastic separation machine is the main part of this business, so the cost to recycle aluminum and plastic contains machine cost. Many factors can affect the cost of aluminum plastic separation machine, such as machine capacity, configuration, quality and different suppliers of machine. Take machine capacity as example, the greater the processing capacity of the machine, the higher the price of the machine. If you want to know the cost to recycle aluminum and plastic, you must consider the machine cost first.

Aluminum plastic separation machine

Then is the raw materials can affect the cost to recycle aluminum and plastic. The raw materials can be aluminum plastic composite materials, medical blister packs, aluminum plastic panels and so on. For example, the general medical blister packs has 20% aluminum content and 80% plastic content. Single-layer waste medicine board usually has 12% aluminum. Composite packaging such as high blood sugar, high blood pressure medicine packaging aluminum accounts for 65 ~ 70%. For different raw materials, the aluminum content of them is different and the price of different raw materials is different. In general, the price of ordinary of medical blister packs is $350 per tons.

Different kinds of aluminum plastic materials

Except above, labor cost and power consumption are also cost to recycle aluminum and plastic in this business. However, for the aluminum plastic recycling machine, it’s fully automatically working, so usually only needs 1-2 persons operating is ok. About the power consumption, it will depends on the machine capacity you need. Take 300 kg/h aluminum plastic rseparation machine as example, if the machine runs eight hours per day, the cost of two workers and power consumption are about $100 per day.

So the above is generally for you to have a reference of the cost to recycle aluminum and plastic, if you want to know more details, just feel free to contact us DOING company.