Artificial Grass Recycling System
Astroturf Recycling Ltd have designed and manufactured a recycling plant to recycle artificial grass. Artificial grass is becoming increasingly popular within the sports industry and in residential areas, but with an average life span of 10 years for sports and 20 years for residential the artificial grass becomes worn and needs replacing.
Currently the artificial grass goes to landfill, however we have a system that allows you to recycle 99% of the turf making it more environmentally friendly and raw materials that have been reclaimed can either be re-used when laying a new artificial pitch or be sold for other uses.
Having over 30 years manufacturing recycling equipment, we have developed a unique system that unrolls, beats and separates the material to reclaim the raw materials.
How the Recycling process works.
The plant works in several stages:
Stage 1
The rolls of carpet turf are presented to the UnRoller. The rolls of carpet are unrolled, the sand, rubber and other materials contained on the carpet go through a first cleaning process the carpet is then re-rolled to ease further processing.
Stage 2
The mixture of sand, rubber, and grass blade’ contaminant is fed into a separation system during which the material gets a 2nd wash. After this process the sand is clean and fully separated out from the rubber, contaminant mix and the sand can then go for drying and grading, but the rubber and contaminant is passed through a Sink-Float Tank where the contaminant is separated from the rubber. The clean rubber can now go for drying and grading.
Stage 3
The re-rolled carpet is passed through the shredder to break the material down . An over-band magnet on the outfeed side of the shredder removes any ferrous material
Stage 4
The shock-pad material is separately washed again to remove any stones and dirt from the shock-pad material before it goes for granulation.
Stage 5
The shock-pad is granulated down to the size required for its intended future use. It is then ready for drying and grading.
Stage 6
The sand is fed into a dryer and then passes onto a Classifier where it is graded as required and then stored in the graded bagging system.
Stage 7
The rubber is fed into a dryer and then passes onto a Classifier where it is graded as required and then stored in the graded bagging system.
The first stage of our system is the plant unwinds the rolls of artificial grass and at the same time beating the sand and rubber from the rolls. Sand is a very abrasive material so by beating the sand and rubber out, it prevents a huge amount of wear on the shredder blades therefore saving you time and money in changing shredder blades.
