Innovation Design and Development of PET Plastic Waste Processing Machines by Extruder Method

According to the Ministry of Environment (KLH), Indonesia's average population produces 189 thousand tons garbage per day. Of this amount, 15% is plastic waste or 28.4 The famous handling 3R (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle). Reduce reducing purchase use goods made from plastic, especially disposable items. Reuse repeated plastic-based Recycle recycling plastic. method used in design study SolidWorks software by combining literature VDI221 obtain a variant results that will be used. do bench machine integrated produce seeds, which are PET-shaped, extruded device has been brewed. From data processing and specifications PET waste-processing with extruder method, construction consists several units, namely, Shredder unit, Extruder Cutter Machine frame. shredder unit serves destroy still intact pieces before being processed unit. functions melt using screw. cutter operates cut extrusion into pellet granules. engine frame support entire Plastic Waste process an Autodesk inventor summarized following specifications: dimensions 1625 mm long, 300mm wide, 1325mm high; screw uses metering type diameter 50.8mm (2 inches) length: ratio 20: 1, so length 1016mm, estimated throughput rate = 84 lb/h (42kg / h), motor 5.5 PK (4 KW) rotation speed 1450.