Over the past decades, the use of agricultural films has continued to increase and shows a long-term upward trend. Growing demand for food and animal feed, shrinking arable land resources, rising requirements for soil protection, and the cost efficiency of plastic films have made agricultural film an indispensable input in modern agricultural production.
At the same time, the widespread use of agricultural films has resulted in a rapidly growing volume of post-consumer film waste. With limited practical alternatives available, efficient recycling has become a critical pathway toward sustainable agricultural development. In this process, reducing lightweight, flexible, and highly tangled agricultural films into a uniform and controllable particle size is a decisive first step.
GEP ECOTECH provides dedicated shredding and recycling solutions engineered specifically for post-consumer agricultural films. Built on extensive experience in solid waste treatment and plastics recycling, GEP ECOTECH agricultural film shredders are designed to handle heavily contaminated materials and challenging operating conditions, delivering stable output size and reliable performance. These systems create a solid foundation for downstream washing, separation, and reprocessing operations, enabling efficient and scalable agricultural film recycling.
Complex Laminated Film Recycle Unit
Equipment Configuration: Dual-Shaft Shredder + Air Separator
To address the characteristics of post-consumer agricultural films—lightweight, highly flexible, prone to tangling, and often contaminated with soil, sand, and crop residues—GEP ECOTECH adopts a combined process of a dual-shaft shredder and air separation system, enabling efficient size reduction and preliminary impurity removal.
The dual-shaft shredder operates at low speed and high torque, using shear and tearing forces to prevent material wrapping and bridging. It is capable of handling bulky and loosely compacted agricultural films with stable throughput. Optimized cutter geometry and shaft spacing ensure uniform shredding and a consistent output size, creating favorable conditions for downstream processing.
Following shredding, the air separator exploits differences in density and aerodynamic behavior between plastic films and contaminants. Lightweight film fractions are efficiently separated and conveyed to subsequent processing stages, while heavier impurities such as soil, sand, and stones are discharged from the system. This significantly reduces the load on downstream washing equipment and improves overall recycling efficiency and output quality.
This integrated solution offers reliable performance, reduced manual intervention, and optimized energy consumption, making it well suited for continuous and large-scale agricultural film recycling operations.
If you are looking for a reliable agricultural film shredding and recycling solution, contact GEP ECOTECH to discuss your material and processing requirements. Our team is ready to provide a customized system tailored to your needs.
