Services Provided by Saltworks:
• Custom Illustration
• Brochure Design
• Signage Design
• Website Design
Services Provided by Saltworks:
• Custom Illustration
• Brochure Design
• Signage Design
• Website Design
In the Spring of 2017, Momentum Recycling opened Colorado’s first bottle-to-bottle glass recycling plant with the goal of increasing the glass recycling rate in Colorado from 6.25% to 21.65%.
The Denver-based plant would offer tours to the public and the media during the grand opening and on-going to provide education on the glass recycling process.
Momentum needed plant signage, a printed brochure with plant map, and a corresponding web page to guide visitors on a tour of the plant.
We began by working with the team at Momentum to map out the glass recycling process. After creating rough sketches of the equipment and processes, we asked our illustrator to create scalable, color illustrations of each step of the process (to be used on a series of signs throughout the plant) as well as an oblique view map of the plant (for use in the brochure and website).
Saltworks developed a brochure below with stats on the plant and the goals for glass recycling in Colorado. Inside the brochure, visitors found a map of the plant, and visual representation of each piece of equipment that would direct visitors on self-guided tours. Corresponding signage showed visitors their location on the map at any given point.
• Some source-separated and window glass
• Holds 5 tons
• Feeds at an average of 15 tons per hour
• Feeder speed automatically adjusts
• Pulls out ferrous metals
• Ejects into collection bin
• All collected metals are sent out for recycling
• Separates bulky non-glass items from glass
• Examples include cardboard, wood, plastic lids, etc
• Reduces larger glass items to a size that can be optically sorted
• Examples include whole bottles and bottoms of Champagne bottles
• Uses electric current to eject non-ferrous metals
• Examples include aluminum cans, copper wire, stainless steel
• All ejected items are collected and sent for recycling
• Forced air flows against the stream to remove light fraction fiber contamination
• Examples include shredded paper, soda straws, and paper labels
• Separates and removes long, skinny
• Common examples include pens, pencils, toothbrushes, and plastic cutlery
• Hot air (190º F) is forced through a bed of glass
• Sugars and bacteria are eliminated, paper labels are loosened, and other fibers are fluffed up for easier removal
• Residue floats to the top and is sucked out via vacuum
• Label material is rubbed off of the glass particles via high-wear resistant paddles
• Glass particles are compressed together and rubbed against each other, abrading the labels while minimizing breakage
• Our optical sorters can only sort glass particles 3/8” and larger
• This splitter separates sortable particles (+3/8”) from unsortable particles (-3/8”)
• We use the most advanced sorting technology available
• 10 Clarity brand sorters remove contamination and sort glass by color down to 3/8”
• Clarity sorters use optical sensors and compressed air jets to detect and separate particles
• Two primary sorters load- balance the flow of glass
• Color sorted, clean cullet is now ready for use in new bottle manufacturing
• Can be introduced directly into the furnaces for true bottle-to-bottle recycling!
• Medium sized particles (less than 3/8”) are separated from Fine particles (less than 1/8”)
• Mediums are further decontaminated for use in bottle manufacturing
• Fines are processed and used as industrial abrasives, water filter media, or in fiberglass insulation
• These Clarity sorters cannot sort by color, but can sort contamination out, down to 1/8”
• This also includes any metals that managed to survive the ferrous magnets and the Eddy Current Separator
• Particles smaller than 1/8” are stockpiled, and then batch-processed together when quantities reach sufficient levels
• This “fines” processing stage starts with this infeed hopper
• Dried and cleaned glass is screened to cull out specific sizes
• Screens can be quickly changed to produce different size grades for different customers
• For example, fiberglass manufacturing requires all particles to be 12 mesh or smaller
• Glass too big for the primary screen is sent through the crusher
• A rotor crushes large pieces into sand-sized particles
• Particles recirculate until they fit through the screen
• Particles that are small enough to pass through the primary screen are then processed through the secondary screen
• Particles are separated into different size grades, depending on the future use. Common size grades include:
– 12 mesh to 20 mesh
– 20 mesh to 40 mesh
– 40 mesh to 70 mesh
– 70 mesh and smaller
• The different size grades are collected in large, pallet-sized woven bags, known as “supersacks”
• Once full, each supersack is tagged with an inventory label, indicating size grade, production date, weight, and lot number
• A full supersack typically weighs about 3,000 lbs
• Some customers prefer to buy fines in smaller bags
• This bagging machine, known as a “valve packer,” uses compressed air to transfer market-ready fines from supersacks into 50 lb paper bags
• Bags are stacked on pallets using a rotating loader to prevent injury
• All paper and other contamination sucked out via the vacuum system is separated from the air stream in the cyclone
• Solid contaminants extracted from the fast-moving air drop into a waste bin
• Air from the cyclone still contains plenty of dust
• The dust collectors use hundreds of vertically-oriented sock filters to separate this fine dust from the vacuum air
• The dust is then returned to the plant, where it is bagged and sold
THE RESULTS
“We love the new responsive websites Saltworks developed for us! We’ve had many positive comments from our customers and our business partners. Plus, the illustrations Saltworks created for the Glass Recycling Process page really helped bring that process to life by making the page highly engaging and interactive.
I definitely recommend Saltworks to any business that needs expert web development or digital marketing.”
– John Lair
President & CEO, Momentum Recycling
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