PRODUCT NEWS
Convert waste plastic into
D&T project materials with
Schred from C R Clarke
SCHRED is a new in-school Schred system is also ideal for
Discarded plastic
recycling system from C R teaching the principles of
bottles are fed into
C R Clarke’s R20
Clarke & Co, and is suitable
recycling to students The
Schredder.
for use with most types of
complete system is priced at
plastic, in particular the
£3,500.00.
commonly used ones such as
More information can be
HDPE and LDPE (the
found on C R Clarke’s website,
materials that most milk
at www.crclarke.co.uk/schred
bottles are made from). The
Keeping with the theme of re-
use of wasted materials, C R
process works as follows:
Clarke has also introduced the
Used plastic packaging is
‘Material Bank’. Maurice Clarke
initially washed. It is then
granulated using C R Clarke’s
told Technology in Education:
R20 Schredder, and given a hot
“Industrial customers process
soapy water rinse to remove any
high volumes of material, both
residue from the original contents.
plastics and metals. As projects
Shredding reduces the volume of
start, stop and change, they are
the plastic by up to 95%, and also
creates a material that is suitable
Using old
for re-processing.
plastic bottles
can save your
department
considerable
sums over the
years
often left with prime material that available will change over time.
is no longer needed. Some more obscure colours and
Due to storage constraints, more
textures are also often available.
often than not this will be
C R Clarke currently have a
Recycled plastic discarded with other business
range of materials available,
sheets from the
waste, and end up in landfill.
press – the R10
including the following:
“While the material may
Re-Processing
a71 Blue tint extruded acrylic
Unit.
be of limited use in
320 x 210 x 3mm
industry, for education it is
a71 Thick clear extruded acrylic
A flower pot made from recycled
ideal, as it is normally cut
sheet 900 x 400 x 10mm
plastic.
to panel sizes that are
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a71 Thick Foamex sheet 1000 x
well suited for design
600 x 4mm.
The shredded material can be and technology
used directly in the C R Clarke projects.”
25 Injection Moulding Machine, C R Clarke have
or be heated on a mould-plate in formed links with leading UK
a temperature controlled oven, plastic fabricators, to get this
and then processed into a new material to educational users. The
plastic sheet using the R10 materials are stocked at C R
Recycled acrylic
sheets being offered
Re-Processing Unit. Clarke, and any combination of
by C R Clarke at
The re-processed material is panel sizes and thicknesses can be discounted prices.
ideal for use in design and supplied. Due to the nature of
technology projects, and the this concept, the materials
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