Method and device for recycling labeled plastic articles

摘要

A method and a device for recycling labeled plastic articles are described. Accordingly, the labels are detached from the plastic articles and the plastic articles treated in this way are sorted in particular automatically. During sorting, plastic articles from which the labels have not been properly detached are sorted out and again subjected to the treatment for detaching the labels.

主权项

1. Method of recycling labeled plastic containers, with a first step of providing the containers, with a subsequent second step in which labels are mechanically detached from the plastic containers and with a third step in which the plastic containers treated in the second step are mechanically sorted,
wherein, in the third step, plastic containers from which the labels have not been properly detached in the second step are sorted out, and the plastic containers sorted out in this way are returned to the first step, wherein not properly detached labels are detected by at least one of a predetermined material, coloring, transparency, position on the plastic containers, or shape, and wherein in the first step, the sorted-out plastic containers are added to plastic containers that have not yet undergone the second step.