A NEW LIFE FOR OUT-OF-DATE FOOD PRODUCTS An automatic equipment separating the container of out-of date packaged food products from the product they contain RECYCLING EQUIPMENT & MACHINERY ckaged products, both solid and liquid. What could a packet of out-of-date tortellini possibly be worth? A pack of out-of-date snacks? A bottle of milk which has passed its expiry date? These can surely only have a negative value, together with hundreds of other out-of-date products which have been removed from supermarkets. Or not? The disposal of packaged food products which have passed their expiry date constitutes a big problem, because their highly protective packaging prevents the normal process of decay from occurring in landfill. This leads to an increase in volume of these landfill and a negative life of these products may lie from the product it contains, prevent them from Expired food products, composition - solid, pulpy or produce (perhaps partially) animal food, but above all in Packaging made of plastic, cardboard, paper or metal, after they have been emptied and cleaned, become transferrable materials for recycling plants. The process of unpacking, separating and reusing these out-of-date food products fulfils a very important social and recycling of the containers and production of energy cost almost nothing, rather than Hi-Tech Ambiente 1° March 2013

consigning hundreds of tons of this product to landfill. To effectively obtain important results in the cycle of treating the unpacking of the products, we need industrial equipment which is automated, secure, highly productive and reliable. speed conveyer belt, and two removal systems: one for the product and one for the empty container. The whole cycle of the process is managed by a PLC electric board which automatically controls and manages all the phases of operation. Tecnofer, which has manufactured equipment for the treatment of recyclable waste since 1976, has developed and produced a...