PERANCANGAN MESIN PENCACAH SAMPAH PLASTIK TIPE CRUSHER

Waste production increases from year to year so that it becomes a big problem for the environment to depend on disposable plastic waste. To overcome this problem, plastic recycling is needed. The most important way to recycle plastic is to chop the plastic into small pieces so that the recycling process is more efficient. Therefore, a plastic garbage chopper is needed. The design of this plastic chopper machine uses a crusher-type cutting system that has 2 knife chopper which rotate in opposite directions and are arranged horizontally with a diameter of 300 mm, 10 mm thickness, 12 blades, and 120 rpm. The type of plastic that can be chopped is PET plastic and has a compressive stress below PET plastic. This machine operates using a 5 kw electric motor with pulley transmission elements and belts with pulley sizes used for 200 small pulleys and 640 for large pulleys with 960 mm shaft spindles and belts used with C-type V belts. by 30 mm