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Offline jvanick

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Garbage service and waste ink handling...
« on: September 25, 2014, 11:47:40 AM »
how do you handle your ink cards and 'liquid' waste?

we've been collecting them in a bucket and then sending them down the belt dryer at the slowest speed on a cookie sheet or waste shirt at the end of the day...  Anybody else have any suggestions?

what about screen tape that has ink residue on it?  Same deal?  Or are you wiping that off first?

trying to figure out how to make the clean up process more efficient and environmentally friendly.


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Re: Garbage service and waste ink handling...
« Reply #1 on: September 25, 2014, 01:28:38 PM »
we started leaving the tape on the screens and de-inking them when we de-ink the screens so that the tape has little to no ink left on it. The tape pulls way faster, not that it was hard, but once it's wet it pulls quick. I usually put wet ink stuff in an empty 5 gal bucket that is finished up, then set it under a flash for a half hour or so. If you reach down in there after it cools off, all the plastisol is cured, if you can get it close enough to the flash without starting a fire. We have one of those jumbo black body 28x28 flashed at the manual so usually that's where I will do it at. Sit the bucket on a cynderblock, seems to be close enough. You'll know when it's done the white plastic from the bucket actually starts to turn clear when it's at a melting point. Let it cool off, hard as a rock, toss it in the trash.
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Re: Garbage service and waste ink handling...
« Reply #2 on: September 25, 2014, 04:05:18 PM »
someone, perhaps my buddy Rockman, told of getting a rectangular piece of cardboard, spreading plastisol waste on it, and sending it down dryer. Repeat, repeat again and again and again and end up with a unique doormat.  :)
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Re: Garbage service and waste ink handling...
« Reply #3 on: September 25, 2014, 04:22:53 PM »
the rule around here is no ink in the trash period!

Wet ink is a hazardous product and not landfill safe, needs to be disposed of. cured ink is landfill safe. 

We use waste management for bin and recycle service.

we use a rag service for the shop rags and use a disposal company to handle our ink and ink wash waste.

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