
Compact and Recycle PET Bottles
Empty PET bottles take up a lot of space, can be difficult to handle, and are expensive to transport. With a RUNI screw compactor, the volume of the bottles is significantly reduced, optimizing handling and greatly reducing transportation costs.
Compact and Recycle PET Bottles
Empty PET bottles take up a lot of space, can be difficult to handle, and are expensive to transport. With a RUNI screw compactor, the volume of the bottles is significantly reduced, optimizing handling and substantially lowering transportation costs.
Compact Empty PET-Bottles
PET bottles are the preferred packaging for soft drinks, fizzy drinks, juice, and water. However, the wide distribution of these PET bottles causes a huge waste problem. Breweries often have large quantities of discharged products that they need to destroy to eliminate the risk of reselling these products. On the other hand, waste collectors need help with handling and transporting high volumes of these discharged products, as it usually requires more effort and money to do so. This makes buying a plastic bottle compactor advisable because it is more profitable and environmentally friendly.
Sell Compacted PET Bottles for Recycling
Our plastic compactor machine is a great solution to reduce the volume of PET bottles and hence the transportation costs. Once the bottles pass through our RUNI plastic bottle compactor, it becomes impossible to resell it or to get a deposit on the bottles. In many cases, the compacted bottles are sold for recycling. Furthermore, the plastic compactor machine reduces the volume of the PET bottles by a ratio of 8:1. Making the handling and transportation of PET easier and less expensive. The compacted PET bottles can be sold to material recovery facilities specializing in sorting and shredding waste materials. Afterward, it can be sold to recycling companies where further sorting, cleaning, and shredding are done before getting PET-flakes raw material for making new plastic products.
RUNI screw compactors compact and dewater PET bottles in a continuous process, pressing liquid extracts into a tank or the sewage without making the surroundings dirty. To avoid bridging and ensure a steady flow when using RUNI screw compactors, you can install an agitator in the hopper. The machines are equipped with sensors for automatic start and stop and can be fed manually, via a conveyor belt or with tilt container. The compacted PET bottles can be pushed directly into a container.
You can read more about the PET bottle recycling process in our guide.
RUNI Screw Compactor for Compressing PET
RUNI has developed two sizes of screw compactors for this purpose:
SK240 with a capacity of 5,000 half-liter bottles per hour. Maximum bottle size is 1 liter.
SK370 with a capacity of 20,000 half-liter bottles or 8,000 1.5-liter bottles per hour.
Both models can also separate and compress aluminum cans. See more under aluminum cans.
Case Studies
                    At Carlsberg in Fredericia, RUNI compactors handle PET bottles, aluminum cans, and plastic kegs – efficiently and reliably.
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                    At Jasar Recycling, they use a RUNI SK370 to handle their plastic containers – with high operational reliability and minimal maintenance.
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