A PROCESS OF RECYCLING WASTE POLYMERIC MATERIAL AND AN ARTICLE UTILIZING THE SAME

摘要

The present invention provides for an article of manufacture, such as a floor covering, formed by an improved process for recycling waste polymeric material (15) comprising a mixture of waste polymeric material wherein the waste polymeric material includes from 0 to 40% aliphatic polyamide material; granulating and densifying the chopped mixture into fragments (40a) smaller than the original size of the waste polymeric material; and extruding the ground mixture at a temperature that does not exceed the temperature at which the largest portion of polymer based material decomposes.